Image credit: Photo taken by John Devlin, Glasgow (2024) Lilian Ptáček
Lilian Ptáček is a visual artist and educator based in Rotterdam who recently graduated from the Master Fine Art program at Piet Zwart Institute. Her work spans sculpture, installation, printmaking and sound, exploring ideas of inward and outward, of public and private in relation to the human body and urban environments. Crafted ceramic and metal forms are combined in her work with found objects and prosaic materials including cardboard, wax and concrete. The resultant works underline the strangeness of the everyday and speaks to the daily demands of city-living.
Lilian has a process and material-driven approach to teaching, fostering learning environments which encourage collaborative making and collective discoveries. She has worked as an educator for numerous organisations including Glasgow Print Studio, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and The University of Edinburgh’s Access to Creative Education in Scotland. In 2020 Lilian completed a public commission for Boghall Drop-in Center in West Lothian, Scotland creating permanent artworks for this community centre that reflect the voices, oral histories and stories of residents. She has been a recipient of residencies at Hospitalfield, Arbroath, Scotland and The Lighthouse Works, New York, USA. Lilian also trained in textile printing on the post-graduate programme at Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA.
