Fredrik Nielsen, Sweden

Mixed Emotions comprised of ‘Stick It Together Silver’, ‘You’re Not the Only One’ and 'This Coming and Going'

2020

Glass

Varying dimensions

A creative response to Mixed Emotions by Nicolette Polek

Windows down driving through the SALT MARSHES listening to cowbells and a TRUMPET from a funeral procession down the road. I see you turning. You wave in the WARPED REAR VIEW mirror and your handkerchief gets picked up by the wind, carried away. I come back to the marshes to find it covered in fiddler crabs and SEA GOOSEBERRIES. I push it down with my sneaker, in case one day, before I see you again, it blooms, amidst the BRIGHT BLADES covered in salt crystals from high tide.

A trained glass blower, Nielsen’s raw expression is influenced by graffiti, music, and pop culture, pushing the perception of glassmaking in new directions. A graduate of the Orrefors Glass School and the Royal Institute of Art in Sweden as well as the Pilchuck Glass School in the United States, his work has been exhibited in New York’s Corning Museum of Glass, Sweden’s Nationalmuseum, and the Ariana Museum of Switzerland.