e-mail: linneadalstrand@gmail.com

instagram: linneadalstrand

visiting adress: NOT QUITE, Fabriksvägen 2, Fengersfors, Sweden

EDUCATION

2017 - 2020

BFA, Textile Body Space,

HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Campus Steneby, Sweden

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2016 - 2017

Foundation year, Clothing

Stenebyskolan, Dals Långed, Sweden

​2009 - 2010​​

Foundation year, Fine Art

Gerlesborgsskolan, Gerlesborg, Sweden

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2008 - 2009

Foundation year, Form & Design

Stenebyskolan, Dals Långed, Sweden

eros

10 meters of black sateen cotton draped on a wooden structure

photo: Sebastian Waldenby

(2023) exhibited at Not Quite, Fengersfors

och ändå sträcker vi oss, som om det var vår räddning.

/  and still we reach, as if it could save us

Dalslands Art Museum's Sculpture Park (summer 2025)

avfallspåse IV och andra objekt

/waste bag IV and other objects

for group exhibition 'In the Rough' at Konsthantverkscentrum, Stockholm. (2021-2022)

curated by: Matilda Dominique

hand dyed silk,

in the root of the flower Madder

photo: Helena Pernow / KHVC

silk

The duo Silk consists of Alva Noreen and Linnea Dalstrand. The duo is based in the project Galleri Silk (2019-2024) but has developed into a recurring collaboration where the two artists combine and compensate each other's expressions and thoughts. The projects can take different forms, but mainly through curatorial contexts, exhibitions or joint works and installations.

#curtaincurtain

solo exhibition at Konsthantverkscentrum in Gothenburg (2022)

photo: Sebastian Waldenby

Bittersweet (love) ‘I want to buy your work and place it in my exhibition’

collab exhibition with Alva Noreen and Tove Starfelt at Atterbomsvägen 46 in Stockholm during STHLM CRAFT WEEK   (2022)

She sipped the bittersweet drink; she is absorbed, wants it, wants to become it. Bittersweet love, painful and lovely at the same time. A limitless exhibition about the individual and the collective, mine, yours, hers. It's about being influenced by each other, observing each other, stealing from each other. Bittersweet (love) 'I want to buy your work and place it in my exhibition' is a tribute to desire and an embrace of jealousy.

utsnitt och glesa trådar

/ cut-outs and sparse threads

collab with Alva Noreen, Tove Starfel and Helena Pernow, exhibited at Galleri Syster in Luleå, Sweden at the group exhibition 'Vänskap I arbete' (2023)

Uncertainty is the state of being vulnerable to others. Unpredictable encounters change us, if we even have control over ourselves.

Through cut-outs and sparse threads, we approach each other from a distance, finding our way in the in-between space, filtering you through me. The process begins with a shared dye bath where we dye our material together. The dialogue happens within the material. We weave, sketch, sew, and draw with the aim of creating something new, together. The material is prepared for what will become us, we, ours. Unintentionally, an uncertainty is built into the material—a pendulum swing between the precise and the crooked. Uncertainty is an openness to change, to take a different direction. A collective work where we challenge the idea of the individual by shifting and blurring the boundaries between each other.

Plant dyeing is an ancient process and an important part of the textile craft's history. Through dyeing, we connect with countless groups of women before us who have made the same movements: carrying, washing, mordanting, rinsing, boiling, and drying. With this project, we want to highlight the artisanal and everyday moments that require multiple hands and bodies.

Cut-outs and sparse threads is an artistic project in three parts, with textile materials as its foundation. The first part involves a shared dye bath with the plant madder root. In the second part, we work individually in separate studios with various techniques. The third part consists of a collective installation in the gallery space, with the material created throughout the process.

Everything has a continuation.

avfallspåsar

    / waste bags

series of waste bags sewn in silk (2019 - )

2019   avfallspåse / waste bag 

2019   avfallspåse II / waste bag II 

2020   avfallspåse III / waste bag III 

2021   avfallspåse IV / waste bag IV 

2022   avfallspåse V / waste bag V

2025   avfallspåse VI / waste bag VI

2025   avfallspåse VII / waste bag VII

studie i porten (/portar)

    / study in the entrance (/entrances)

(2020)

collected images from various installation views and exhibitions. Exhibited at Steneby Konsthall (Dals Långed, 2021), Nora Art (Bergslagen, 2021), Benhuset at Katarina Kyrka (Stockholm, 2020) and HDK-Valand exam exhibition (online 2020).

A process-based exploration of entrances — a quiet search for form and detail, drawn to architectural voids, drifting draperies, and the traces of what once was.

(varje gång) är som den första

     /  (every time) is like the first

Dalslands Art Museum's Sculpture Park (summer 2023 and 2024)

hanging, dyed silk. faded and weathered

(summer 2023)

(summer 2024)

bindningar i kombination av hål

        / bindings in combination of holes

Collab with Alva Noreen, Tove Starfelt and Helena Pernow,

exhibited at Gallery KC, Gothenburg Sweden (2024)

To explore the possibility of dissolving the boundaries between the individual and the group - state where we coexist, dependent on each other while simultaneously in opposition. We weave, sketch, sew, and draw with the aim of creating something new, together. In the gaps and spaces, we find our way forward and approach each other from a distance. The collaboration begins with a shared dye bath, where we naturally dye the materials together.

ljuva hem

/ sweet home

weaved and knitted, hand dyed (2019)