Visualising the future of natural colour at HDK Steneby. Artist in Residency at Gothenburg University
Artist in Residence at HDK Stenbeby, Gothenburg University. A six-month residency in the year 2012 Visualising the future of natural colour at Steneby The proposal I work in a close relationship with the material, sensitively experimenting and exploring. Using time-consuming and dynamic natural dye colour processes; the importance of each step can influence the final result […]
Research in Aotearoa – New Zealand in my own Artist in Residence
Researching the Ocean and my naturally dyed material in Aotearoa – New Zealand I researched the ocean, its currents, waves and tides. The moving and forever change and all that the ocean brought with it up on the shore, like seaweed and blue bottle jellyfish. I researched further how my naturally dyed material moved in […]
Artist in Residency at Srishti University, Bangalore India
Srishti University – Art, Design and Technology Bangalore India November – December 2016. Colour facilitates a higher form of communication, evoking native instincts and recognition, we have a natural dye perception. Through this Artist in residence, I explored the holistic world of natural colour and plants and water, working together with the students, to perceive the sensory tactile […]
Artist in Residency and the International Festival of Plants, Ecology and Colours in Madagascar
Invited to present my work at the International Festival of Plants, Ecology and Colours in Madagascar – 15 to 21 May 2017. I stayed for three month in my own Artist in Residency with funding from Västra Götaland, Sweden. Despite the cultural and natural riches, Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the world. […]
Artist in Residence – Kala Bhavan – Visva Bharati – Santiniketan India
Artist in residence at Kala Bhavan – Visva Bharati – Santiniketan India. Invited by Professor Sanchayan Ghosh Department of Painting, Kala Bhavana (Institute of Fine Arts) and the interdisciplinary Arts in Kala Bhavana. I was fortunate to live in the house of Rabindranath Tagore’s daughter and I had a studio at the bottom of the house. Every day I could walk […]
Artist in Residency Textilmuseum Borås 2022
Artist-in-residence: Textilmuseum Borås, Sweden I worked with the reconnection to the sensual contact with the elements and to the living textile material that covers our earth. I worked with plants, the colour of plants, plant medicine, and natural materials – fibres together with history and myths connected to the place and time. Colour from plants […]