Malmö Art Academy alumna My Sjöberg has been honoured to receive the scholarship from the Anna-Lisa Thomson Memorial Foundation.
Sjöberg accepts the scholarship with the motivation:
"For the ability to skilfully depict the fields of tension in ambivalent states. The changing intersection between past and future, reality and fantasy, the natural and the artificial, vibrates quietly in the works. With an unexpectedly stripped-down aesthetic, Sjöberg opens up a philosophical breeding ground where the viewer finds himself on the threshold of this intermediate state."*
My Sjöberg graduated from the Malmö Art Academy's master's programme in spring 2024. Sjöberg exhibited her sculptures in her graduation exhibition No Obvious Connection. Read all about the exhibition and see pictures here.
We congratulate My Sjöberg on the scholarship!
* Authors translation from Swedish.
About the Anna-Lisa Thomson Memorial Foundation
The Foundation was established in 1952 after the passing of the artist Anna-Lisa Thomson. The Foundation selects scholarship recipients from female master's degree graduates of art academies from all around Sweden.
Anna-Lisa Thomson was mainly active in Uppsala and was a designer at Upsala-Ekeby for almost twenty years. It was her wish that her estate should form a fund to encourage and support female artists. Thomson herself had received a scholarship during her education that played an important role in her artistic career, which is why she wanted to pass on the opportunity to the female artists who came after her.
The 2024 scholarship amount is SEK 90,000 per artist. The 2024 scholarship recipients will be shown in a joint exhibition at Uppsala Art Museum from 2 November to 8 December 2024.
The chairman of the foundation is Mattias Enström.
