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Himmel och Hav (Sky and Heaven) 2025 Public art for Lilla Torg in Halmstad (SE)

Himmel och Hav (Sky and Sea) 2025, public art for Lilla Torg in Halmstad (SE) Made with bricks, stone, tiles and mosaic.

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Deviant 2025

Performance at the opening av my separate show Deviant, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien Norway.

Perfomers: Tamar Ohana Goksøyr and Karoline Aamås

Deviant 2025

Performance on the opening of my separate show Deviant at Spriten Kunsthall, Skien (Norway)

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Deviant 2025.

Separate show at Spriten Kunsthall in Skien (Norway) The show was over eight floors, with bird/human like sculptures in the different rooms.

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Deviant 2025

Separate show at Spriten Kunsthall in Skien (Norway. This room is filled with black drawings, depicting different creatures that are a mixture between birds and humans.

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Deviant 2025 Separate show at Spriten Kunsthall in Skien (Norway) This is a large sculpture reaching nine meters and it is made of paper maché, cardboard and paper.

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The Fall

"Never regret thy fall, o Icarus of the fearless flight, for the greatest tragedy of them all, is never to feel the burning light."

Oscar Wilde

In the exhibition the Fall, Vanna Bowles has explored a new form of expression. Her usually carefully executed, detailed sculptures and drawings of birds, insects, body parts and nature, here meet an expressive and abstract expression.

In the process of working out this new form of expression, the hands and the body have been allowed to rule, and she has allowed a physical and experiential knowledge to manifest itself through doing rather than thinking.

The exhibition can be seen as a meeting point between a form of subconscious thinking, where fragments and parts of larger wholes can be put together to form new images and stories, and a bodily examination of experienced emotions, where the materials, that can be likened to entrails, bodies parts, plants and other living things, are allowed to speak for themselves.

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En Uggla i Handen (An Owl in the Hand) 2022

Public art work for Kornellen care home in Örebro. The work consists of three sculptures in brick stones, ceramic tiles and bronze. It is situated in a little park in connection to the care home, but also open for the public.

Orädd resa / Fearless journey 2021

Fearless journey is a public work at Lindholmen in Gothenburg harbour.

The work consists of three pieces; a brick stone arch with handmade ceramic tiles, a bronze figure in human size and ruin-like bit of a brick wall with a bronze bust inside.

By spring 2022 two of the three pieces are installed. The third one will be placed in 2023-24

A little film about the exhibition “Människor och djur” at Tegnerforbundet in Oslo, May 2021.

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Abandoned Moments 2021

Serie of 28 pencil drawings, each drawing 20 x 20 cm.

photo: Øystein Thorvaldsen

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The Animal Spectacle 2021

Installation, approximately 400 x 400 x 300 cm Paper, drawing, graphite, paper mache´

photo: Øystein Thorvaldsen

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Snakes, Ropes and Stag Beetles 2016

Installation on table 80 x 200 x 75 cm

mixed media, drawings and paper mâché

Sketch for the public art work “Orädd Resa” (Fearless Journey), to be realized 2018-20 on the harbor of Lindholmen in Gothenburg (SE).

The work consists of three sculptural pieces; A three meter archway in bricks, covered on the inside with drawings on ceramic tiles. The second work is bronze sculpture of a person covered with ivy, and the third is a fragment of a brick wall with ceramic tiles and an bronze sculptural depicting a child with a sparrow head.

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