Gunnel Sahlin
1954, Sweden
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She has held a professorship at Stockholm’s College of Art, Craft and Design, as well as the renowned Pilchuck Glass School in the US. Between 1986-2005, she was designer at Kosta Boda, Sweden’s most prestigious brand of glassware and glass art.
Sahlin has exhibited extensively in Europe, Japan & the US and received many awards including ; Working Grant Swedish Art Council (2005), Excellent Swedish Design (1991, 1993, 1996, 1997), St. Johns Masonic Lodge Award (1993), and a Working Grant, Eklund Scholership Fund (1984).
Exhibitions
2017 Hortus Poetica - Exploring Materiality, Colour and Form Solo Exhibition • Exhibition Catalogue
Artist portrait by Rikard Vestman.
Artworks by the artist