Camilla Boström

“I’ve always said that I want to move freely between art and design, and not exclude either.”

Camilla Boström’s many murals on walls, fences, pump houses, and dumpsters all over Gothenburg flow between art and design, permanent fixtures, and temporary projects. Style, expression, techniques, and materials may vary, but the sense of immediacy and an intuitive touch is recognizable. More than just her initials, her “handle” SCEB  also stands for her motto: “Suffer the Consequences or Enjoy the Benefits”.

Motivation:
Spray-paint can in hand, Camilla Boström takes a playful and undogmatic approach to painting where the moment, desire and the temporary nature of creation is in play. In her murals and other works, she cultivates a certain pictorial restlessness where colors and fragments of shapes propel each other in a carnival-like stream of emotions and expressions.

A crumpled canvas, a fence, the wall of a building, or a museum hall are all potential sites for her free-wheeling combination of techniques, materials, and pictorial traditions.

For a coloristic expression that captures the sprawling and quirky energies of street art, Camilla Boström is awarded the 2023 Culture Scholarship from the Sten A Olsson Foundation for Research and Culture.