ZOFIA BUTRYMOWICZ BIOGRAPHY
Zofia Butrymowicz (Poland, 1904-87) saw herself as an innovator who was interested in new experiments in art ‘whether I agree with them or not’. That spirit led to her emergence as one of the pioneering East European textile artists who developed ‘loom thinking’ during the 1960’s: working directly on a loom without a prepared cartoon. That allows the process of weaving to feed directly into the formation of tapestries, in her case suggesting abstracted landscapes in which the layering of threads evokes geological strata and gradations in the distance.