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BIOGRAPHY Cecilia Sikström (born 1962 in Stockholm) is a Swedish artist focused upon the intersection of creation mythologies with empowered feminine fgures CECILIA from European history and popular culture. Trough her expressive works she describes an afective response to the natural landscape while grappling with SIKSTRÖM issues of fguration and disfguration in depicting her subjects. Working primarily with oil on canvas - but also exploring various print processes such as lithography, screen printing, and novel digital methods. Sikström has most recently been utilizing a limited but highly personal “skin-tone” palette in her work to explore such diverse subjects as Marie Antoinette’s elaborate dresses, Bridget Bardot’s wild hair, and Picasso’s garish hubris. She continues to produce a prolifc amount of work and has shown extensively in Scandinavia and abroad. She lives and work in Stockholm, Sweden. www.ceciliasikstrom.com ARTIST STATEMENT title: THOUSAND NEEDLES In consideration of the guidelines of this project I want to represent a uniquely Swedish experience, but also a very personal perspective which is very much technique: related to the focus of my paintings. Fashion has been an essential consideration in my life since I was very young and I have distinct memories of having to wear OIL ON CANVAS ill-ftting boys clothing because my parents were very tight with their money, and also of my father making me wear far too much clothing in the winter months due to his fear that I would be aficted by the cold. So I want my artwork to represent these personal feelings about clothing in the Swedish winter, but also the jubilant color of the skies as they refect upon the Swedish landscape during the summer. For this dress I would like to make a black, like the little black dress that every woman has in her closet, but also because black is the color most destructive to nature both literally (as in the black dying processes of the textile industry) and symbolically. FAI INSPIRATION Inspired in present day Sweden, where the old and the new live together, sometimes as two paralel historical happenings; sometimes, although less frequently, as one unit intertwining cultures and surroundings.