Kerstin Jakobsson

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Swedish artist Kerstin Jakobsson

Kerstin Jakobsson grew up on a farm, rich of textile traditions. This gave her direct line to Swedish folk art and its roots in pagan history. This creative background, rich of female storytelling, had continued to be a great inspiration to her. Furthermore, being educated as a Fine Art Artist and where male artists has enhanced that inspiration.

Kerstin combines old craftsmanship and techniques with expressions like performance to make comments about what it means to be human in this phase of history. She often create art projects, were she opens up her own art pieces, and invite the public to become co-creators. Such projects have been developed around the world together with people from many different cultures.

Through these projects, more than thousand individuals have expressed their faith, or shared their life experiences, even the hard ones, through art. Her open way to include others experiences into her art work, transforms her art to physical places, where many people meet to express life.

Most of her participants in the different projects have never participated in an art event, and many of them have never met an artist before. This connects her work back to her folk art background, where people expresses their inner beings through crafts; a direct line from heart to art.

This website introduces you to Kerstin's world of art; a connecting point for art, craft and history with the touch of a female hand.