kalebassi

There are so many beautifully crafted things at Kalebassi, in Haga here in Göteborg. West African art and craft, will be back with more photos. First some of the music instrument that Margareta, shop owner, specialises in.

Had such a good studio day, frantic clay work. No photos, in this phase it all looks very grey. As always, when preparing for a show, the process itself brings a lot of new ideas (work is born out of work, for me) there is not time to follow. Clay must dry, be fired, glazed and fired again, it takes so long.

Save the ideas that doesn't fit into the whole image this time, for later. Now I calculate what needs two firings and what can be direct fired, what must be done now and what can wait a little longer. Show opens April 19, at Lerverk. Not a too big space but of course I want to do as good as I can.

Camilla is going ceramic, looks very good! It's a collaboration with Karin for her new shop Manos.
Joe Pogan, metal birds via Purple Homes

stress relief

This helps. Yoga classes around lunch time twice a week, and occasionally sauna, keeps me sane. A lot of effort and money was put in restoring Hagabadet in the nineties.

In the eighties, when the building from 1876 was still a wreck, it was a great place for clubs, the empty pool the dance floor. Both versions work.

Touch design team with a very sympathetic website (and nice designs)
Tahir Mahmood photography

mail from India

As a result of kolam-posts I received nice messages from India:

Found colourful blog An Indian summer, Indian interior design.
Discovered Tara Books, an independent Chennai based publishing house. Beautiful and thoughtful books and stationary.

See here how their hand crafted books are made.

So much to see, so little time these days. I'm preparing a big birthday party, a solo show and a little ski trip for the month to come, and I want to enjoy every moment of it, instead of feeling stressed. So, maybe my posting will be shorter than usual over the next weeks, and maybe I will not visit you as frequent. If I can resist.

Studio has top priority, though. Today I will continue play with flowers and smaller wreaths. Wish you a good Monday!

stroll along the beach

Frida Fjellman


Mia E Göransson


Renata Francescon

"It's no longer as it was to stroll along the beach" is the name of a craft exhibition, produced by the small but clever Dalslands museum. The show toured and is now at Röhss museum. It is all about artists' relation to nature and it's symbolism. Which us Swedes are known to have a strong, almost religious connection to, nature.

Curated by Love Jönsson, mostly younger artists, but also a couple of reminders of the radical sixties.

Sofia Björkman
Frida Breife
Tabea Dürr
Frida Fjellman
Agneta Flock
Renata Francescon
Mia E Göransson
Agnieszka Knap
Anders B. Liljefors
Jakob Robertsson
Charlotte Sinding and the group
Uglycute

Wish you all a fun and fulfilling weekend (including March 8)!

little gallery tour

I feel a little like being on the run when I go to look at others exhibitions instead of working on my own. I'ts so sunny it's difficult to concentrate.

Dutch jewellery artist and designer Ted Noten, shows his Amsterdam at Galleri Hnoss
More pieces at Klimt02.

Konstepidemin artist Ragnar Schmid, I almost forgot! how could I!? show at Galleri Aveny until March 9. Previous exhibition.

Röhss museum photos tomorrow.

slow revolution

Flooding sun, compensation days are here for all the gloomy winter behind us.

Got an email the other day from Andy Horn from Craftspace, a craft development organisation based in Birmingham, England. Craftspace seems to have a very fresh approach to defining craft and craft artists. Read more about what they do here.

He wrote about his new research project Slow, investigating the connection between craft and the slow movement (slow food, slow cities), a collaboration with artist Helen Carnac.

The project has a blog, and ask people to take part in the debate:
Making a slow revolution

Already revolutionary:
Bean Finneran, ceramic and colour

sun is back

Mid February the sun rises high enough to reach into my studio again. Yesterday I almost had to wear sunglasses. Today seems to be as bright.

I'm playing around with my flowers, making wire leaves. Haven't decided yet, let's see.

Sea and sky photo blog
Studio Libertiny honeycomb vase via Craftzine blog