Ildikó FEKETE
Easter eggs from Sárköz
2022
decorated eggs
Photo: SULYOK Miklós
Harminchármak - Fekete Ildikó, tojáshímző
1991, Budapest, egg decorator
Mathematician, sofware tester. She decorates eggs in her free time. She modernizes the old colour scheme to make the eggs more appealing to today’s tastes. Her first book (Message Written in Wax) was published in 2019 and is also available in English. Every year, she has solo exhibitions around the country, but she has also presented her work in France, the United States, China, Israel and Australia. She represented Hungarian artisans at the World Folkloriada in Bashkiria in 2021. She received the Masterpiece of Hungarian Crafsmanship Award twice, as well as the title of Folk Craf Artist, the Pomegranate Award, the Vörösmarty Award and the Junior Prima Award. She was named Young Master of Folk Art in 2016 and in 2017 she was selected for the mentoring programme ‘50 Talented Young Hungarians’. She was a fellow of the Réka Darida Foundation in New York in 2021 and 2022.
