"I translate my bizarre fantasies into ornament and I invite people to marvel over their oddity". Marta Mattsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden and has studied jewellery art at HDK-School of Design and Crafts in Gothenburg, Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery in Tokyo, Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and at the Royal College of Art in London. She has exhibited her work internationally at galleries and fairs including, Schmuck in Munich, Velvet da Vinci in San Francisco and Gallery Marzee in Nijmegen. She is currently taking part in the 3-school project, collaboration between students from the Royal College of Art, Munich Academy of Fine Arts and Hiko Mizuno College of Jewellery.
Someone once told Marta: “You make jewellery for children, not for adults.” Given that she draws inspiration from her childhood experiences of playing with stuffed animals and slugs, her fellow students in Tokyo were right when they described her work as:
‘KimoKawaii’, which is in fact a combination of two words kawaii (cute) and kimoi (disgusting). Marta’s work is based on the tension that exists between attraction and repulsion. She translates her bizarre fantasies into ornament and invites people to marvel over their oddity.
Someone once told Marta: “You make jewellery for children, not for adults.” Given that she draws inspiration from her childhood experiences of playing with stuffed animals and slugs, her fellow students in Tokyo were right when they described her work as:
‘KimoKawaii’, which is in fact a combination of two words kawaii (cute) and kimoi (disgusting). Marta’s work is based on the tension that exists between attraction and repulsion. She translates her bizarre fantasies into ornament and invites people to marvel over their oddity.
