Fanny Ollas, born in 1984, is an artist and designer who primarily works with ceramics but has a background in textiles. She operates in the intersection of design, craft, and sculpture, focusing on the emotional relationships we have with objects around us. Starting from traditional ceramic forms and everyday objects, she delves into the intimate relationship humans have with these items and how they serve as powerful symbols or archetypes. By introducing unexpected elements or altering the shape of objects, she imbues them with human characteristics and emotions. Her works often have a playful aesthetic and a cute appearance, but they are also marked by a sense of melancholy. They are characters with multiple layers of meaning, intended to encapsulate the complexity of the human experience and capture the essence of the delicate balance between darkness and humour.

Fanny Ollas earned her master’s degree in ceramics at Konstfack in the spring of 2018 and has since been working in her studio in Gustavsberg. In her latest works, Fanny has joyfully experimented more with how ceramics and textiles can intersect and how the addition of textiles introduces a reference to clothing and the body, giving the objects an additional dimension of human qualities. The vase or urn becomes a type of body with a neck, a head, and handles or arms. They can be seen as a type of self-portrait but also as vessels for storing different states of being.