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Saturday inspiration

Gabriel Gunnarsson — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:17:51 +0000

One of Sweden’s most famous interior stylists Lotta Agaton recently hosted an interior stylist course at the Swedish design school Beckmans Akademi. Now the course is finished and you can see the student’s result on the project they were working on at Lotta Agaton’s Facebook page. The project was for the students to come up with an idea, make a full presentation and prepare the fullscale shoot for artist Therese Sennerholt’s new prints. Some beautiful inspiration for the weekend!

Image from Lotta Agaton’s blog. Photo by Pia Ullin.

Up Your Wall supports the Pink Ribbon Campaign

Gabriel Gunnarsson — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:38:10 +0000

The Swedish Cancer Society annualy organizes the Pink Ribbon campaign for breast cancer. Companies, organizations and private individuals all over Sweden take part in all kinds of different fundraising activities in the campaign month, which is October. The aim of the campaign is to finance research, increase awareness of breast cancer and arouse public opinion within the breast cancer area.

Of course Up Your Wall supports the Swedish Pink Ribbon campaign for breast cancer. Therefore, during this weekend, 10% of the sales goes directly to the Pink Ribbon campaign.

Read more about the campaign (in swedish): http://www.cancerfonden.se/sv/rosabandet/

Image: Cancerfondens rosa band 2011, design Per Holknekt och Lena Philipsson. Photo: Melker Dahlstrand.

On This Earth, A Shadow Falls

Kristina Jakobsson — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:51:02 +0000

Warming up for my upcoming Africa trip with these beautiful photos by Nick Brandt.

These and many more are shown now on Fotografiska in Stockholm. Read more about the photographer Nick Brandt here.

Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings

Gabriel Gunnarsson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:22:09 +0000

Cy Twombly! I’ve wanted to write about him here for a long time as an Art and about post. To me Twombly (maybe together with Francis Bacon) is one of the greatest and most fascinating painters during the last fifty years. Last week the Moderna Museet in Stockholm opened their exhibition Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings. The exhibition focuses on the artists J.M.W. Turner, Claude Monet, Cy Twombly and their later work, examining not only the art historical links and affinities between them but also the common characteristics of and motivations underlying their late style.

Since I’m working part-time at the Moderna Museet I might not be totally objective about the show – but I would really recommend you to go and see the exhibition and especially the monumental works by Twombly, paintings which I find rather amazing. And relax all you non-swedes reading this – the show will be travelling to Stuttgart Staatsgallerie and Tate Liverpool during 2012.

Visit the Moderna Museet web if you would like to read more about the show and Cy Twombly.

Cy Twombly, Quatto Stagioni (A Painting in Four Parts). Part III: Autunno, 1993-1995, © Cy Twombly Foundation / Tate, London 2011

Birds, birds, birds

Gabriel Gunnarsson — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:26:11 +0000

Working with trends (in some way), as we more or less do here at Up Your Wall, it has been impossible to escape the current bird trend. The urban people of today seem very fascinated by birds, birds and birds. This spring Swedish magazine Filter wrote an article about Club 300, an association competing on whom that has seen the highest number of bird species in Sweden. In July, swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter wrote about the young hipster bird watchers in Stockholm, oscillating between sourdough baking and bird watching. The bird trend is even more apparent in today’s interior design. When interior design blog Trendenser and web gallery Arty People held a competition where you could win an optional artwork from Arty People, it was obvious that the artwork Hushed by Amy Dover with the motive of a bird was the most popular. Because of the popularity of bird artworks, the Tumblr-blog Put a bird on it was founded, featuring artwork only with birds on it. Our own Jenny Capon’s Stockholm Map Birds are some of Up Your Wall’s most sold artworks. What is it about birds that we like so much?

Maybe, the trend has something to do with my generation – people born in the eighties. As Dagens Nyheter write in their article, “it is precisely this generation – which have grown up with recycling know-how, ecological thinking and which carbon dioxide traps you should avoid – that enters a natural romantic relationship with their environment”. Being utterly aware of the effects of our urban lifestyle, we naturally seek for objects that symbolizes the opposite, objects that live and inhabit the nature as well as the cities – the birds. I don’t know if I’m right about this, but maybe it’s part of the answer. Or maybe we just think that birds are beautiful?

Above left: “Hushed” by Amy Dover, for sale at Artypeople.se
Above right: “Robins” by Jenny Capon, for sale at Up Your Wall
Below left: parts of “Willow Warbler” by Jenny Capon, for sale at Up Your Wall
Below right: Bird watchers in Stockholm. Image from Dagens Nyheter. Photo: Ann-Sofi Rosenkvist

Suthipa Kamyam for Up Your Wall

Kristina Jakobsson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:54:41 +0000

Finally! Our new artist is up! Suthipa Kamyam have created three works exclusively for us at Up Your Wall. How do you like these beautiful prints?

Last Life in the Mountains of Nowhere

The Swan Who Has Never Been Found

And They Have Escaped The Darkness

You can read more about Suthipa here.

New

Kristina Jakobsson — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:07:42 +0000

We updated the site a little bit. No major changes to the design, but still just a little bit better Don’t you think? We’ll make some futher improvements in the coming days. Let us know if you run into any trouble or if you have any ideas on what we could do better. Thanks!

(and speaking of New – get ready for our next artist. Coming soon!)

Under Construction

Kristina Jakobsson — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:21:59 +0000

Today we are fixing some bugs on the site , sorry for the inconvenience. We’ll try to be as quick as we can! Check in later today to shop some art.

Thanks for your patience!

The Up Your Wall Team

Dance with Lanvin

Kristina Jakobsson — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:59:21 +0000

Isn’t this awesome? More dance for the people!

Where Are You Going?

Kristina Jakobsson — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:10:03 +0000

Image via Plenty of colour