Lars Nyberg (Sweden)
Lars Nyberg was born in 1956 and attended the Royal University
College of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1978 – 1983.
He specializes in drypoint and his work is featured in private
and public collections across Europe, Japan and the USA.
In 2001 he received a commission from The Nobel Committee
for Physiology or Medicine to make an edition for the Nobel
prize award winner for that year. Since 2006 he has been
responsible in selecting the artists to be commissioned to
create the annual editions for the Nobel Prize award for
Physiology or Medicine.
Lars has been working as a visiting artist at the Graphic Studio Workshop in
Dublin for the past 15 years.
His represented in the private collection
of H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf as well as in the private collection
of H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria.
Artist’s Statement
“Since I was seventeen years old I have been working with drypoint. To
feel and hear the steel needle travelling in the copperplate is meditative music
for me. The happy surprise with printmaking is, besides working with a very unique
media, that after a long time of thinking and scratching on the copperplate,
I can print extra copies from the plate, give away prints, sell the prints not
too expensive. My prints are held in museums and public collections and most
important, in private homes. They are living their own, new, lives together with
the person that once bought them. It is a happiness to know that.
It is always somewhat unpredictable when
working with drypoint. The lines in the copperplate live
their own lives. I like that. I believe it is important,
especially today, to learn by listening and to give room
for the importance of emptiness and the strength of Silence
in a small copperplate. To listen to the copperplate. All
possibilities are waiting in a few square inches copper.”
