Zora Palova

Zora Palova was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in 1947, studied at the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava (1967) and taught at the Public School of Arts in Nitra (1969). She then resumed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bratislava, specialising in painting (1971) and later in glass and architecture (1975). She became President of the Association of Applied Arts and Designers in 1995 and Research Professor at the University of Sunderland in 1996, a post she holds today. Palova works almost entirely in glass, a material that she loves for its myriad ...