Gunilla Maria Åkesson is pretty sure that clay chose her, not vice versa. She liked clay, and somehow she felt she needed that material. “I started quite young; I knew early on that I wanted to express myself through art, although not necessarily ceramics,” she says. “Weaving was the main craft in my home when I grew up.” At 18 she had a practice period with ceramics at school, and that triggered off her passion. She graduated from the National College of Art and Design in Bergen, Norway, and worked as an assistant for Ulla Viotti, a well known Swedish ceramist. Since then her works have been exhibited internationally, and she is represented by different art museums and collections in Norway and Sweden.
Gunilla Maria Åkesson
