In a world growing increasingly more polarised I have strived to peel back concepts of my art to deal with themes of basic humanness. This has been of particular concern when creating permanent public works and participatory community based projects which has been the focus of my art practise the last decade. 

The concept of layers is integral to my visual world and the collage works of 2025 has provided an acutely needed antidote to the strictures of grand scale projects. 

In letting intuition guide the process the materials at hand make the images come to life and grants a further scaling back; eluding the intellectual and connecting other innate sensibilities part of the paracosm play of childhood. The images are part of a visual world, an imaginal zone, that is ongoing and open ended. The separate parts correspond to each other - but how - only becomes clear with time – and in collaboration. 

Associations to Jungian archetypes and symbols are perceivable, merging with suggestions of new types of tarot cards, mapping of yet to be discovered flora and fauna and influences from pop culture, romance novels and crime tv, spanning decades.

The reference to Hanne Höch and the Dada movement is a longstanding debt. As a small protest against a society that resembles times we thought never would return, I search for hope and resilience in this new realm.  

INGRID SANDSBORG  b. 1974  (SE)

Ingrid Sandsborg is born in Kalmar and grew up in the south of Sweden where she studied Art History and Art Theory at University of Lund, before moving to London in 1995. There she eventually attended an art course at Kingsway College in Kentish Town followed by a degree course at the Byam Shaw School of Art (that later merged with Central St. Martins) and achieved her fine art degree (BA) in 2001.

In 2002 Sandsborg left London for Malmö, Sweden, where she started out her art career as a freelance artist and illustrator, parallell with other assignments within the cultural field. 

Sandsborg has participated with work in shows, solo and in group, in Scandinavia, the UK, and France. Her work has been in an international Art Biennale in Greece 2012 and exhibited in Vienna 2013 for which show she received a grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists. Her work was shown at Art Brussels in April 2014, then represented by Galerie Raum mit Licht from Vienna. 

The following decade Sandsborg´s carrer focused mainly on public art with several commissions for permanent works revolving round children´s environments; school yards and sports hall façade to name a few. She has also created, funded and realized a large number of participatory art projects during the years, often resulting in permanent collective public art works. 

In 2025 Sandsborg returned her attention to her own inherent visual art practice - where collage has always been at the center – and showing works in a gallery setting yet again with an upcoming comprehensive solo exhibition  the winter 2025-26.