![]() Meet all the judges' vote winners in the Fine Art, Photography, Craft category & in all other categories of the i-D x ARTSTHREAD Global Design Graduate Show.Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond So I guess that’s the plan and the answer to the question - to keep on working, exhibiting, researching and maybe most important of all: to keep on arguing for the immense importance of art and craft practices in today’s society. In the future, I’m interested in getting a PhD in the field of contemporary crafts, more specifically in ceramics in the expanded field. It is an artist-driven platform where Owen Armour and Kristine Tillge Lund curate exhibitions with two artists working in different materials, where the two practices meet and are being combined in the most brilliant of ways - if you don’t know about them, you should check them out, they are such a great inspiration! I am right now a part of a duo-exhibition together with an American artist called Sarah McNulty at this amazing gallery space called Stereo Exchange in Copenhagen. Hopefully I will manage to keep going this working full time with art. Malin Ida Eriksson:Right now I have been lucky enough to quit my part time job and work full time in my studio, and for that I am forever grateful. To sum it up I believe that we are all winning by being given platforms like this, where the importance of art and craft is visible, as cheesy as that sounds. I believe that we need to find a place to pause the disasters for a while, as well as seeing the disasters being processed in different ways, through different materials and methods. In many ways I think that art is a reaction to how we experience the world we live in. Today we are in big need of all different genres of art to get our minds away from death numbers, political arguments and climate change.įor me art can be a place to filter what happens in the world and let that take form through my hands. ![]() I am humble towards the fact that there are so many talented art practitioners out there and that I am part of this movement. Malin Ida Eriksson: Winning an award is obviously lovely for your ego, and it is amazing that this is a worldwide channel to be visible through. This is the foundation of my practice and I firmly believe that this is why I am never bored of it - it is never about me solely - I am in constant need of response.ĪRTSTHREAD: What does winning this award mean to you? Instead of picturing my practice as a monologue I think of it as a dialogue I need the material to react to my actions as well as me reacting to the material. I usually describe my practice as a kind of collaboration between me and the clay. Even though I think I know how to process it fully, it constantly reminds me to stay focused and not take anything for granted. Malin Ida Eriksson:I get motivated by being challenged and I find the challenge I need in the material in which I work. I was completely amazed by how something could take shape with only my hands and something that is so easily found in nature.ĪRTSTHREAD:What motivates you creatively? I took a general art course to get my mind some place else and it turned out that I really enjoyed it! During the sculpture classes I got introduced to the material clay and I completely fell in love with it it was so full of possibilities and I believe that the material was my way into the field of art. Malin Ida Eriksson: I have always been a creative person, at first I thought I would become a musician since that’s what I had been doing since I was really young although, I never felt free, or completely honest when practicing it. These dry vessels are filled with ink coloured water and because of the materials strong desire to get back to its plastic state, tensions are created and the water starts to leak onto a white paper.ĪRTSTHREAD:How did you get into your creative field - tell us about your background? ![]() The sculptures originates from ink paintings, which are created by unfired coiled vessels made in clay.
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