Artists get creative at global Egg Art Exhibit

If you are one of those artistically inclined people who love all things creative, then the Arabian Centre is where you must head for this weekend as the Middle East's first Egg Art Exhibit has been organised there as part of the Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) 2009 festivities.

As a unique craft on its own, egg art is practised by relatively few artists and 10 international participants are showcasing their works at the exhibition.

As many as 300 eggs are on show at the exhibition and among these is the work done by the President of the Korean Art Guild, Kim Kyung-Ah, who has been a professional egg artist for 11 years.

Kim, who has a university degree in arts, also earned a Master's degree from the International Egg Art Guild. Kim has participated in egg art shows in America and Asia. She is a two-time winner of the grand prize in the California Egg Art Show supported by the California Egg Art Guild.

Works by famous Hungarian egg artist from Canada, Eva Ceke are also on display.

Ceke is a teacher-turned-egg artist. It was her research on how to design Easter eggs apart from painting them that led her to discover the beauty of egg art.

Now, after 17 years of practice, Ceke has her own unique way of doing the egg art. She is among the few egg artists in the world who design eggs through embroidery. Her distinct artistry earned her an amazing line of egg artworks worthy of a collector's attention, and she wrote a book Egg Spero by JEVA: How to Embroider a Real Eggshell.

Cristina Serediak, a professional and practising paediatrician from Argentina, is an egg artist on the side. She is of Ukrainian decent and declares that this heritage brought her to the unique art of designing eggshells or "pysanka" in Ukranian language. Her visit to Ukraine 15 years ago inspired her to bring its famous traditional egg art to Argentina. Serediak claims that gifting colourful and decorated eggs started 6,000 years ago in Ukraine while the Pysanka Museum in the country is said to be the central manifestation on the importance of egg art in its culture.

Respected folk handicraft artist Kati Zsigóné from Kalocsa, Hungary, is also displaying her work at the exhibition. She paints coffered ceilings and creates canvases mostly of equestrian themes. She also decorates walls and folk furniture in traditional Kalocsa patterns. She creates etchings for plates and vases.

She prepares tablecloths, blouses and vests. But, most of all, Zsigóné is an egg artist who uses 11 different techniques to decorate eggs.

Zsigone is the author of two books How to Make Nice Painted Eggs and Decorating Eggs with Professional Touch.

So do not miss these creations and rush to the Arabian Centre as this exhibition is on only until August 8, from 10am to 10pm.

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