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Inanimate objects speak
through Sigrid`s work
The artist Sigrid Boseley has a world
of her own.
That world is to be found two floors up in
a block of flats in Västerås.
There in the two apartments, which
accommodate both living quarters and
studio, she calls upon her inanimate
objects to embody life and the great world
outside.
Her favourite objects are stones, dolls
and logs of wood.
The stones are important. They lie all
over the place in the studio. Big and
small, smooth and rough, shining and dull,
simple and extraordinary.
For Sigrid Boseley they are all of value
and have something to tell.
'It`s difficult to explain, but they are
personalities in their own right and have
a lot to say for themselves.'
Logs of wood
She has been fascinated by stones for a
long time. Her interest in logs of wood is
more recent. They are portrayed in the
paintings that hang on the walls and stand
carefully arranged for a new picture.
Sigrid discovered them during a visit to
Värmland.
'We were sitting in front of ann open fire
when I suddenly began to look more closely
at the firewood. Then I felt I
couldn´t let that log be burnt up,
nor that one, nor that one. I had to paint
them instead. Although it´s not the
actual, visual preserving of them that is
important. The stones themselves, for
example, will last almost forever.'
She finds most of the stones on the south
coast of England, where she often goes
with her husband to visit her
parents-in-law.
Sigrid looks into the cardboard boxes on
the floor and says with a smile: 'I wonder
what the customs would say if they stopped
us with all these. Luckily they´ve
never done so.'
It was in the middle of the seventies that
Sigrid Boseley arranged her artisic life
as it is today. She has been to evening
classes and felt that she had received
enough outside influences and must now
develop what was really 'hers'. As a
member of Bild & Form, she has had
one-man exhibitions and taken part in
joint exhibitions, but her art hes not
been sufficiently lucrative to live
on.
'No, we manage thanks to my husband who is
a techer at the university,' she explains,
adding half jokingly, 'He is my
patron.'
Leaves impression on
home
And thet her husband is interested in
Sigrid`s art is no doubt a prerequisite,
since it undeniably leaves its impression
on the flat. In the living-room stones lie
on the table, Chinese dolls look down from
sveral of paintings on the wall, and in
the study, kitchen and bedroom there are
examples of Sigrid Boseley`s work, which
also includes drawings and poems. The
free-flowing lines of the sketch-like
drawings contrast sharply with the bright
colours and almost photographic realism of
the paintings. They are a way of
unwinding, andinspiration often comes
instantaneously. Just as with the
poems.
'I can be sitting watching a fly that is
wlking about on the table. Then I begin to
ponder about what the fly actually thinks
when it sees its reflection in the shining
oil cloth and this result in a poem.
'with my oil painting it´s different.
Instinctively I feel what wants to be
painted. I then try putting the object
together with other ones until new forms
arise.'
After a tour round Sigrid Boseley`s flat
one thing becomes clear: everything that
is depicted is also to be found in the
material world of the flat. The stones and
logs, of course,but inside the kitchen
cupboard there are also the piggy-bank,
the beautiful teapot and the Chinese dolls
with their shining colours. One of the few
paintings in which Sigrid has portrayd a
human being is a self-portrait painted
immediately after a masqurade. Yes, of
course, she can produce the mask she is
wearing in the picture. Everything she
paints exists in reality. Somewhere in the
flat or in the studio.
Close to
life
What is her art apart from painting
objects she is fascinated by?
'I paint what is close to life, close to
nature. One of my poems explains this
quite well. It ends: "And once again
forgive me, I fly to tuch the
ground.'"
It is not then the big events, nor the
"important" motifs that Sigrid Boseley
gives her attention to. It is to the
inanimate objects and shapes whixh at
first glance do not seem particularly
remarkable, but which in her eyes have a
value, a beauty or a sensuality lying deep
within them. There is never any doubt
about what she is going to paint.
'I´m not afraid of repeating myself.
St the moment the dolls have not been
asserting themselves, it is the stones and
the logs that are important.'
Her own
world
On saying this Sigrid Boseley looks
longingly down at her collection from the
English south coast. She would really like
to paint much bigger stones, but it is not
possible to get them home, and to paint
them out in the open would not feel
natural to her.
'No, I like it best in this room;
it´s my own world.'
Birgitta Hedman
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I feel dead on my wings to
sorrow
flying low
bowing my head to fathom
the tiniest, withering flower
and once again forgive me
I fly to tuch the ground
Poem by Sigrid
Boseley
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Sigrid
Boseley
Born in 1945 in Stockholm.
address: Vegagatan 4b, SE-722 23
Västerås, Sweden
tel: +46(0)21-13 06 96
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Member of Bild & Form [Image
& Form], 1978-1998
Currently a member of Västerås Artists`
Association
Member of Västerås Writers` Club
Education:
Art classes at Oxford College of Technology,
England, 1966-67
Art classes at Bedford College of Further
Education, England, 1968
Art Classes at ABF [The Workers` Educational
Association], Västerås, 1969
Joint Exhibitions:
Västerås Art Museum, Christmas Salon,
1974
Västerås Art Museum, Christmas Salon,
1975
Västerås Art Museum, Christmas Salon,
1976
Västerås Art Museum, Christmas Salon,
1978
Västerås Art Museum, 'New from the
Studio', 1980
Rönnbygården, Rönnby
(Västerås suburb), 1980
Gallery Ugglan [Owl], Strängnäs
(cathedral city), 1980
Västerås Art Museum, Christmas Salon,
1980
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1980
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1982
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1984
Gallery Gripen [Griffin], Karlstad
(provincial capitol of Värmland), 1986
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1986
Västerås Art Museum, Christmas Salon,
1987
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1989
Arosgården (it is the house of the Workers`
Educational Association), Västerås
198?
Abrahamsgården, Norberg, (small town in the
county of Västmanland), 1990
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1990
Västerås Art Museum, Christmas Salon,
1992
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1996
Västerås Artists` Association, 1999
Västerås Artists` Association, 2000
One-man Exhibitions:
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1979
Gallery Bild & Form, Västerås,
1982
Konstfrämjandet (an association for the
promotion of art), Västerås, 1985
Arbetsförmedlingen [Employment
Exchange], Västerås 1990
Stadsbiblioteket [Town Library],
Västerås, 1998
Cultural Award:
Västerås City cultural Award, 1983
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