"Roman Śledź, a contemporary Polish folk art sculptor, was born May 12, 1948 in the village of Malinówka within the Gmina Cyców, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland.
His roots are from a small village peasant family. He completed elementary school but his education was disrupted at age 16 by the death of his father. Shortly after that he and his mother ran a farm together and simultaneously he started supporting his younger siblings. In the years 1968 to 1970 he worked as a tractor driver with a farmers' association in Cyców and additionally on construction work in Lublin. In 1968, at the age of 20, intrigued by an article he had read in the Gazeta Lubelska [pl] newspaper about sculptors from Wola Korybutowa, he made an attempt to carve his first sculpture. For his first work of art in 1969, he received a diploma from a Museum in Lublin. Since that time he has received numerous prizes and awards and interest from collectors of folk art." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.04.2022)
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