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Alexander Tallén, photo: Jannis Tordheim. Alexander Tallén, Together at last, 2016, photo: Linn Ahlgren/Nationalmuseum.

Alexander Tallén receives this year’s Young Applied Artists award

The 2019 Young Applied Artists goes to the ceramist Alexander Tallén from Stockholm. The scholarship is worth SEK 100,000 and is being presented by the Bengt Julin Fund, administered by the Friends of Nationalmuseum, at a ceremony which will take place on 21 November.

Märta Mattsson, photo: Emma Fredriksson. Wings, photo: Märta Mattsson.

​Märta Mattsson is Young Applied Artists 2016

Jewellery artist Märta Mattsson from Stockholm is the 2016 Young Applied Artists. Fascinated by the wonders of nature, she transforms dead animals and insects into jewellery pieces, giving new life to something that would otherwise moulder away. The award of SEK 100,000 from the Bengt Julin Fund, administered by the Friends of Nationalmuseum, will be presented at a ceremony on 14 November.