Therese Berg is a young Swedish artist, in 2009 she received her BA from HDK (School of Design and Craft) in Gothenburg.

In her degree project called “beauty tinged with…” she worked with poems and fragments of text as a source of inspiration.

The texts where about subjects that she can relate to:
solitude, vulnerability and the longing for love, but at the same time they talked about strength and about being safe. Beauty with an undertone of sadness.

The pieces where made to tell a story, not only to adorn the wearer. For Berg it was important that the pieces where interesting from all angles, the backings is a contrast to what you first see, and when it is worn it is a secret only the wearer knows. This was to reflect the feeling of being sad on the inside but keep a happy facade.

Berg finds a beauty in worn things, she sees that they have been used and loved, this was a quality she wanted to give to the pieces she made. In this projects as in many before she worked with a large range of different materials Iron, epoxy resin, plaster etc. The value of the piece is not the price of the material, it is the time and emotions you put into them.

(by Lisa Björke)