Environmental Art History I Circumpolar North
We first holidayed in Sweden in 1998 - I was five years old, and my sister only a baby. Five years later we had moved there as a family. Despite 15 wonderful years, first living there full time, and then returning every summer and winter, for the last few years I have only been able … Continue reading A Norrland Roadtrip – The Northern Swedish Landscape
As part of an Anglo-Swedish Society organised event, I made a visit the Josef Frank exhibition currently being staged at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Undertaken in association with Millesgården in Stockholm - the home, now museum, of the sculptor Carl Milles - this is the first instance his textiles have been exhibited in … Continue reading Exhibition Review: “Josef Frank Patterns: Furniture – Painting”
In her book, 'Rural Artists Colonies in Europe, 1870-1910', Nina Lubbren looks at why thousands of artists during the nineteenth-century up and left the urban capitals of Europe and instead chose to live and work in the countryside. This was indeed the case for the Scandinavian artist, not only abroad but at home as well. Focusing on … Continue reading At Home & Abroad: The Swedish Artist Colony
In an article recently published by the local.se, the author writes that, whereas the general perception of Swedish style is still that of light and white tones, the Swede is in fact falling for colour, abandoning the "sleek and clean interior design” for which they are epitomised. In the art of ceramics, the same concept … Continue reading A New Idea of Swedish Ceramics – Per Hammarström
Isabelle Gapp 