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As an artist, Linda Persson primarily works through sculptural and filmic processes that address the contexts surrounding colonial interventions in landscape, body, and language. Her work process has often involved long-term residencies or assignments over several years in places such as the Eastern Goldfields desert in Western Australia, where she, together with Wongatha women, explored the effects of extreme excavation, language oppression, and water toxins.
Linda Persson, pronouns she/her. Lives in Eriksmåla. As an artist, she primarily works through sculptural and filmic processes that explore contexts surrounding colonial approaches to landscape, body, and language.
Often through long-term residencies or assignments lasting several years in places like the Eastern Goldfields desert in Western Australia, where she collaborated with Wongatha women to investigate the effects of extreme excavations, linguistic oppression, and water toxins. Their joint Light&Language project was awarded 1st prize in Visualizing multilingualism by the British Association of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck, and Manchester University (2019).
Linda holds a bachelor's and master's degree in sculpture/sound from Chelsea College of Art & Design and Winchester School of Art, England, as well as a research year through Mejan Residency at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Linda has participated in the Momentum Biennial (2017) and was included in the book 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow published by Thames & Hudson (2019). During the period from 2016-18, she was also an active participant in Experimental Heritage in Småland/Öland. Linda's focus was Blå Jungfrun. After living in London for 19 years, she has now settled in Småland where she initiated the podcast project Women in the Forest. She is currently working on a participatory public artwork together with a care home for young adults with Down syndrome in Uppsala (Sept 2023). In April 2023, her stone sculptures 'Let's Face it' made from Swedish leftover stone were inaugurated at Huskvarna Folkets Park on behalf of Folkets Hus & Parker and Statens Konstråd.
