Mona Wallström

Jeweller

Published: 27.01.2017

Mona Wallström

: Konstepidemins väg 6
SE-413 14 - Gothenburg
SWEDEN

: Website Mona Wallström

Mail:: mona.wallstromkonstepidemin.se

Phone:: +46 737 53 34 58

Mona Wallström
Necklace: House no 10 Unbroken outline, 2016
Hard plaster, silver
72 x 36 x 1 cm
Photo by: Mona Wallström
From series: Regarding Hose no 10
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: House no 10 Broken Outline, 2016
Hard plaster, silver
33 x 20 x 2 cm
Photo by: Mona Wallström
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Mona Wallström
Piece: House no 10 Chimneys, House no 10 Staircase, 2016
Ox. silver, paper, paint & Ox. silver , stones, paint
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Regarding House no 10
2 necklaces
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Mona Wallström
Piece: House no 10 Chimneys, House no 10 Staircase, 2016
Ox. silver, paper, paint & Ox. silver , granite, paint
30 x 20 x 7 cm & 32 x 15 x 2 cm
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Regarding House no 10
2 necklaces
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Mona Wallström
Piece: House no10 Foundation, House no10 Side Entrance, 2016
Granite, copper, silver, diabase,paint & Diabase, silver, wood
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Regarding House no 10
2 necklaces
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: House no10 Roof, 2016
Plywood, silver, paper, paint
40 x 18 x 2 cm
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Regarding House no 10
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Mona Wallström
Piece: Tree Silhouette II House no 10, Tree Silhouette III House no 10, 2016
Engraved acrylic, brass, paint
21 x 18 x 2 cm, 18 x16 x 2 cm
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Regarding House no 10
2 Necklaces
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Mona Wallström
Installation: The Glade, 2015
Plywood, epoxy, sheet gold
Photo by: Mona Wallström
From series: The Glade
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: The Glade Model, 2015
Wood, ox. silver, gilded copper
Photo by: Mona Wallström
From series: The Glade
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: The Glade Map, 2015
Ox copper, ox. silver, gilded copper, titanium
Photo by: Mona Wallström
From series: The Glade
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Mona Wallström
Piece: The Glade Map & The Glade Model, 2015
Ox copper, ox. silver, gilded copper, titanium & Wood, ox. silver,gilded copper
Photo by: Karl Petersson
From series: The Glade
2 Necklaces
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: Epidemic II, 2016
Oxidized silver, wood
34 x 17 x 2 cm
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Regarding House no 10
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: Epidemic I, 2016
Leather, titanium
34 x 17 x 3 cm
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Regarding House no 10
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: Epidemic III, 2016
Leather, sweet water pearls
34 x 17 x 1 cm
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Regarding House no 10
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: Epidemic II, Epidemic I, Epidemic III, 2016
Leather, titanium & Oxidized silver, wood & Leather, sweet water pearls
Photo by: Karl Petersson
From series: Regarding House no 10
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: Equipment Box Cherry, 2016
Wood, ox. silver, glass, textile
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Equipment Boxes
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: Equipment Box Cherry, 2016
Wood, ox. silver, glass, textile
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Equipment Boxes

Detail view

Mona Wallström
Necklace: Equipment Box Pine, 2016
Wood, seed, ox.silver, glass, steel
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Equipment Boxes
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: Equipment Box Pine, 2016
Wood, seed, ox.silver, glass, steel
Photo by: Johan Wingborg
From series: Equipment Boxes

Detail view

Mona Wallström
Necklace: Equipment Box Larch, 2016
Wood, ox. silver, titanium, reconstructed coral
Photo by: Karl Petersson
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Mona Wallström
Necklace: Equipment Box Larch, 2016
Wood, ox. silver, titanium, reconstructed coral
Photo by: Karl Petersson

Detail view

Mona Wallström
Necklace: Equipment Box Larch, 2016
Wood, ox. silver, titanium, reconstructed coral
Photo by: Karl Petersson

Jewellery on Model

Statement

One recurring artistic method used by Wallström has been to allow her observation of the world around her to form the starting point for her studio work. The series Disordered Memories (1999-2001) recalled impressions from her travels in the form of a collection of graphically distinct pieces of jewellery. The project Evidence (2005–2006) used differing objets trouvés, which were treated as bearers of stories and information. But the emphasis lay less on the found objects’ ability to convey facts than on the elusiveness and ambiguity in their manifestations and combinations. The installation Greetings from Plywood Palace (2007-2011), which consisted of a portable spatial structure and a series of jewellery pieces, presented a fictitious place and its inhabitants. In different ways all these series targeted a field of experience in which concepts like geography, displacement and memory are central. But here the map is always in some sense unclear and the conjured-up contexts appear temporary or under negotiation. In a text that accompanied Disordered Memories Wallström says that she seldom takes photographs during her journeys but instead prefers to draw sketches. This comment has significance for her work in general. If a photograph has traditionally represented a moment frozen in time, a drawing is something that is instead built up step by step by the movements of the hand. The image in a drawing, while it is in the process of becoming, can go in a new direction at each moment. Wallström maintains an open work process that allows space for flights of fancy and that prioritises approaches like a digression, a roundabout route or a new way of combining things over following a predetermined route.

What the artist is aiming at, the themes she is exploring, are not achieved here via a distinct process of determination but rather via a kind of mapping process that by necessity is incomplete, in the sense of being open and undetermined. But it is the roaming about itself, the unwillingness to stop, which ensures that the artist will in fact reach her goal. I am reminded of the explorer Robert Peary’s description of his voyage to the North Pole in 1909 and how he was convinced he had found that legendary place without actually having been able to determine precisely where it was.

After having determined its position approximately, Peary writes, then setting an arbitrary allowance of about ten miles... and then crossing and recrossing that ten mile area in various directions, no one except the most ignorant will have any doubt but what, at some time, I had passed close to the precise point, and had, perhaps, actually passed over it.

/ Love Jönsson, Curator Röhsska Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden.

CV

Mona Wallström, 1956, Markusmyren, Arvidsjaurs kommun, Sweden.

Education:
1980-85 School of Design and Craft at Göteborg University, Dep. Metal Art Sweden MA.

Solo exhibitions selected:
2016 Regarding House no 10, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Värmdö, Sweden.
2015 City Trees, Museum of Asian Art/University of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2013 Candelabrum, pid gallery for moving art and sound.
2011 Greetings from Plywood Palace 4, Kulturens Hus Luleå, Sweden.
2011 Greetings from Plywood Palace 3, Nääs Konsthantverk Floda, Sweden.
2009 Necesse est, Konstepidemin pav.6 Göteborg Sweden.
2009 Greetings from Plywood Palace 2, Konsthantverkarna Stockholm, Sweden.
2007 Greetings from Plywood Palace, Sintra, Göteborg, Sweden.
2006 Evidence, Platina Stockholm, Sweden.
2003 Konstföreningen Arvidsjaur, Sweden.
2003 Konstfrämjandet, Storfors, Sweden.
2001 Disordered memories, Rantapajan galleria, Lappeenranta, Finland.
2001 Disordered memories,Platina Stockholm, Sweden.
2000 Disordered memories, Rista konsthantverk, Umeå, Sweden.
2000 ID, Hnoss Gallery, Göteborg, Sweden.
1999 ID, Nutida Svenskt Silver, Stockholm, Sweden.
1997 The beauty of the woodlice, Nutida Svenskt Silver, Stockholm, Sweden.
1995 Houses, Galleri Halvare, Uleåborg, Finland.
1994 Houses, Sunwheels, Bohusgalleriet, Uddevalla, Sweden.
1992 Sunwheels, Rista konsthantverk, Umeå, Sweden, Sintra Göteborg, Sweden.

Exhibitions selected 2004-14:
2015-16 The EYE, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Telšiai, Vilnius, Galerija Vartai Kauno Kaunas, Herkaus Galerija, Klaipeda,Litauen, Amberif 2016 Gdansk Polen Magan Gallery, London, England.
2013-14 Contemporary Swedish Art Jewellery, Platina Stockholm, Sweden, Neue Messe München, Germany, Nivå 125 Båstad, Sweden, Galleri Anna H, Göteborg, Sweden.
2012-14 ALLA, Röhsska museet, Göteborg, Form Design center Malmö, Gustavsbergs Arthall, Artmuseum, Eskilstuna, Sweden.
2011-12 The Ring - Jewel for ever, Galleri Hnoss Göteborg, Sweden, Estonian Museum of Applied Art And Design Tallin, Estonia.
2010 The Plastic show, Velvet da Vinci Gallery San Francisco, USA.
2009 KORU3, Imatra Arttmuseum, Finland.
2009 Sakernas tillstånd, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden.
2009 Schmuck 2009, München Germany, RMITgallery Melbourne, Australia.
2009 Nano, Studio 44, Stockholm, Sweden.
2008 Artitude 2008, Kunstbanken Hamar, Norway.
2008 Scandinavia Jewellery, Electrum Gallery London, England.
2008 hnoss-intended, Nääs Konsthantverk Floda, Sweden.
2007-08 Absolute beauty, Gallery of Art, Legnica, Yes Gallery Poznań, Museum of Amber Gdansk, Museum Gliwice, Design Gallery Wroclaw, Poland.
2007 David Collection SOFA, Chicago, USA.
2007 hnoss-depended, Röhsska museet, Göteborg Sweden, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh Scotland, Stadsmuseet Göteborg, Sweden.
2006-09 Challenging the Châtelaine, Designmuseo Helsinki, Finland,Tarbekunstimuuseum Tallinn Estonia, Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Athens Greece, Design Museum Gent Belgium, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch Netherlands, Philadelphia Art Alliance, USA, Wågermanska Arthall Skärhamn, Sweden.
2006 hnoss-intended, Arthall Steneby, Falbygdens museum Falköping, Form/design Center Malmö, Sweden.
2005 Contemporary Swedish Silver, Int. Art+Design Fair New York USA, Artmuseum Kouvola Finland, Scottish Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland.
2005 The David Collection SOFA, New York, USA.
2004-05 Birthdayparty, Legnica, Walbrzych,Posnan, Warzaw, Poland, Munich, Germany.
2004 The David Collection SOFA, Chicago USA, Galleri Konstepidemin Göteborg Sweden, Alternatives Gallery Rome Italy, Röhss museum Göteborg, Sweden.
2003-06 Swedish Jewellery, Nijmegen Netherlands, Krakow Poland, Barcelona Spain, London England, Rome, Italy, Lisboa, Portugal, San Francisco USA, Cambridge MA USA, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Work in public collection:
National Museum Stockholm, Sweden.
Röhsska Museet Göteborg, Sweden.
National Public Art Council, Sweden.
Gothenburg Public Art Council, Sweden.
Panhang Art Museum, Malaysia.
Vilnius Academy of Arts, Telšiai Litauen.

Lecturing:
Head of Jewellery Department at School of Design and Craft at Göteborg University Sweden 1995-2002
Workshop South Carelian Polytechnic, Lappeenranta, Finland, 2001.
Since 1997 Co-organizor Hnoss Gallery/ Initiative, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Grants:
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee 1988, 1993, 2002-03.
Gothenburg Town grant 1992 working grant 2005.
Västra Götaland Region grant 2007.
Swedish Arts Grants Committee 10-year grant 2007.

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Regarding House no. 10 by Mona Wallström.

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Mona Wallström

: Konstepidemins väg 6
SE-413 14 - Gothenburg
SWEDEN

: Website Mona Wallström

Mail:: mona.wallstromkonstepidemin.se

Phone:: +46 737 53 34 58

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