Galina Mamrovskaya

Applied artist. Born in the family of Nikita Mamrovsky in the town of Borisoglebsk in Voronezh Region (1946). Studied at the Mikhail Kalinin School of Art and Industry in Moscow (1966–70). Lived in Ryazan Region (1970–72). Worked at the Snowflake Lacework Association in Vologda (1972–2006) as a laboratory designer (from 1972) and head artist (from 1986). Visited the St Therapontus Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin (1975). Took part in republican design competitions (1976, 1982, 1985). Member of the Union of Artists (1978). Winner of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1978), Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation (1996). Awarded a diploma by the Russian Academy of Arts (2000) and won first prize for the Olympic Flame of Victory panel at the II International Vita Lace Festival in Vologda (2014). Contributed to exhibitions, including the IV Soviet North Zonal Exhibition in Vologda (1974), international fairs in Greece (1983), Mozambique (1984) and Finland (1986), IV. Quadriennale des Kunsthandwerks sozialistischer Länder in Erfurt (1986), InterMuseum-99 at the Expocentre Exhibition Complex in Moscow (1999), Fairytales in Russia at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2000), Vologda Lace at the St Cyril of Belozersk Museum Complex of History, Architecture and Art in Kirillov (2010), The Magic of Spindles at the St Cyril of Belozersk Museum Complex of History, Architecture and Art in Kirillov (2013), Beloved Vologda Laces at the Crimean Ethnographic Museum in Simferopole (2014–15) and a one-woman show at the St Cyril of Belozersk Museum Complex of History, Architecture and Art in Kirillov (2014).