Artist Hanna Hansdotter and ceramicist and multi-disciplinary artist Kakan Hermansson grew up a few hundred meters apart in Lund, Sweden, something they only became aware of as adults. They met at Konstfack in Stockholm, where Kakan was Hanna’s teacher in a ceramics course, and they have kept in touch ever since.

 

Kakan is a ceramicist while Hanna is one of Sweden’s most celebrated glass artists, one of the style-makers in the acclaimed new wave of Swedish glass art and craft-driven contemporary art. The idea was soon born to let their creative conversations take physical form in a series of art glass.

 

The result has been a collection of “very impractical,” sculptural objects, created in collaboration with the master blowers at Kosta Glassworks. The works in the series offer a lavishly rich, exuberant spectrum of colors, marbling and patterns, with playful references to the history of glass.