Tobias Birgersson

Contemporary Metal Artist & Object Maker
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Caring is Sharing

8 March, 2020Christian Habetzeder Leave a Comment

Caring is sharing. But is sharing always caring? 1. The larger part of our life consists in sharing. We share the air that we breathe with the masses on the streets and marketplaces of the city. We share our daily… Continue Reading →

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The Toolness of Things

7 November, 2018Tobias Birgersson Leave a Comment
The Toolness of Things by Tobias Birgersson. Photo: Christian Habetzeder

What are they? They are forged steel forms, flattened planes of metal forming a wonky gourd silhouette, that have been attached to wooden handles. While they follow the same general pattern, each of them is different: the size and angle… Continue Reading →

Damian Skinner, objects, The Toolness of Things, tools

15 Ways of Thinking About a Blacksmith

28 May, 2018Tobias Birgersson Leave a Comment

Tobias Birgersson and Damian Skinner Tobias: Is an idea or concept or intention important as a starting point when working with arts and crafts, or when mining their material and tradition? I think not. Damian: What is your intention? Everyone… Continue Reading →

concept, craft, Damian Skinner, idea, process, Tobias Birgersson

Calabash

28 May, 2018Tobias Birgersson Leave a Comment

The piece is an African bottle gourd (calabash), painted over with car lacquer and provided with a bronze knob that seems to indicate the opening of a vessel, through which water, grain or palm wine might flow. The larger bulb… Continue Reading →

Calabash, Pravu Mazumdar

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Thank you all involved in Digital Open House 2020. Thank you all involved in Digital Open House 2020.
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Repost by• @metalartsweden We are lucky indeed to have the privilege to study and work at this Magical place. 2020
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#stardust #milkyway #dalsland #metalartsweden #steneby #studentlife #thisisgu #thisishdkvaland #naturephotography #universe #university #space #magical
BFA in MetaArt(Time GMT+1) 11.00: Presentation of BFA in MetaArt(Time GMT+1)
11.00: Presentation of the bachelor programme by Tobias Birgersson, program director, and Heiner Zimmermann, adjunct  professor. Followed by Q&A (ENG).
14.00: Presentation of the bachelor programme by Tobias Birgersson, program director, and Heiner Zimmermann, adjunct professor. Followed by Q&A (ENG).

The zoom link works for both time slots 
https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/65922498379?pwd=aXBZODVQK0NHMkZKbTd5OE00UnEyQT09
Passcode: 866668
ARTIST TALK WITH ANDREW HAYES NOVEMBER 12 AT 18.00 ARTIST TALK WITH ANDREW HAYES NOVEMBER 12 AT 18.00.

The metal artist Tobias Birgersson interviews Andrew Hayes about his work and the Artist in Residence project he is now working on at a distance from his own studio with works related to Sweden.

Welcome to listen to the talk via link in bio. 
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. This project is made possible in collaboration with IASPIS and @andrew_hayes_studio @tbirgersson 
@lfhsk 
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@metalartsweden 
@lod_metallformgivning 
@motesplats_steneby 
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#wallenhallen #exhibition #metalart #lfhsk #usa #sweden #andrewhayes #leksandsfolkhögskola
Today I allow myself to feel proud. • @seeblack Today I allow myself to feel proud. 
• @seeblackwomxn STOMPIN’ the trump out. #seeblackwomxn #trustblackwomxn #listentoblackwomxn #protectblackwomxn @kamalaharris IS FROM OAKLAND
Thank you for having my soul and mind in Hereford Thank you for having my soul and mind in Hereford as my body sat in front of the computer wearing a white shirt and underwear. 
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Repost by• @herefordanvils Thank you @tbirgersson for presenting our first #talkingpractice #guestlecture  for this academic year delivered  through #microsoftteams as we learn how to navigate #coronacoaster .
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Photo credit @christianhabetzeder Christian Habetzeder
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@leiabirgersson @aquileiaz 
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#herefordanvils @metalartsweden
#thusishdk_valand #steneby #thisisgu #thetoolnessofthings #metalart #lecture #talk #leiabirgersson
I Voted ! All it took was five emails three overse I Voted !
All it took was five emails three overseas phone calls a missing ballot and a missing reprinted ballot before I registered for a digital ballot. That ballot had to be printed on a larger printer than the normal home version. The two envelopes that also had to be printed needed to be cut, folded glued and seal taped. 

See it’s really easy to vote...
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#vote #vote2020 #uselection #uselection2020 #diy #diyproject #ballot #nyc #nycvotes #newyork #newyorkcity #absenteeballot #absenteevoting
Daniel Freyne is currently trying to make his way Daniel Freyne is currently trying to make his way back to Swedish soil, A difficult task during these trying times. 
-This vessel is already in Sweden, Stockholm and my home. 
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Repost by • @danielfreyne Forged & rased bowl. 
#hollowware #korpus #steel #forged #raised #art #metalart #crafy NewMaker #newmaker #blacksmith #blacksmithing #forging #bowl #sculpture #applied #contemporarycraft
Hand raised and forged by Dan Freyne and now it’ Hand raised and forged by Dan Freyne and now it’s a part of my collection. 
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Repost by• @danielfreyne Raising some mild steel into a vessel.

#raising #steel #hollowware #corpus #hammer #tingting #metal #art #metalart #forged #process #newmakers #thisishdk_valand #stake #metalwork #handraised
I am now the Happy owner of one of Dan Freyne’s I am now the Happy owner of one of Dan Freyne’s incredible bowls. 
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Repost by • @danielfreyne Forged & raised bowl. 
#hollowware #korpus #steel #forged #raised #art #metalart #crafy #newmaker #blacksmith #blacksmithing #forging #bowl #sculpture #applied #contemporarycraft
Almost done. I am Very curious to se if the final Almost done. I am Very curious to se if the final paint matches my imagined outcome. 
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Pigment Master Wolfgang Bremer and I are at it again. This is 50 grams of graphite fresh from the Swedish Mountains. To be transformed to 40 My powder. This is the next step in our ongoing Gourd  conversation. 
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#wolfgangbremer #pigments #graphite #graphiteart #graphit #gourds #gourd #color #art #craft #crafts #mastery #härnösand #mountain #rock #minerals #tobiasbirgersson
Checking the ground Graphit for larger crystals th Checking the ground Graphit for larger crystals that escaped the now ruined coffee grinder leads to graphite everywhere. 
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Restarting the Gourd project with pigment master Wolfgang Bremer
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#wolfgangbremer #graphiteart #graphite #minerals #mountains #grounding #coffeegrinder #hand #collaboration #gourdart #gray #graphitegray #pigment #color #art #sculpture #metalart #tobiasbirgersson #sweden
Pigment Master Wolfgang Bremer and I are at it aga Pigment Master Wolfgang Bremer and I are at it again. This is 50 grams of graphite fresh from the Swedish Mountains. To be transformed to 40 My powder. This is the next step in our ongoing Gourd  conversation. 
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#wolfgangbremer #pigments #graphite #graphiteart #graphit #gourds #gourd #color #art #craft #crafts #mastery #härnösand #mountain #rock #minerals #tobiasbirgersson
As a student I never really liked the quick assign As a student I never really liked the quick assignments given to me by my Professors but now twenty years later I still use some of them as a maker. 
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This is a result from a collaboration with @postlmayr.metal.gestalter during a very short Jeff Doering @makerspacejeff Makerspace workshop at @metalartsweden 
“Shovel guitar”
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#shovel #guitar #shovelguitar #threestringguitar #instrument #musik #workshop #tobiasbirgersson #postlmayr
As a student I never really liked the quick assign As a student I never really liked the quick assignments given to me by my Professors but now twenty years later I still use some of them as a maker. 
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This is a result from a collaboration with @postlmayr.metal.gestalter during a very short Jeff Doering @makerspacejeff Makerspace workshop at @metalartsweden 
“Shovel guitar”
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#shovel #guitar #shovelguitar #threestringguitar #instrument #musik #workshop #tobiasbirgersson #postlmayr
As a student I never really liked the quick assign As a student I never really liked the quick assignments given to me by my Professors but now twenty years later I still use some of them as a maker. 
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This is a result from a collaboration with @postlmayr.metal.gestalter during a very short Jeff Doering @makerspacejeff Makerspace workshop at @metalartsweden 
“Shovel guitar”
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#shovel #guitar #shovelguitar #threestringguitar #instrument #musik #workshop #tobiasbirgersson #postlmayr
This bowl for @perrekrukis came from a bowl projec This bowl for @perrekrukis came from a bowl project I did a while back SWIPE FOR MORE. The book is now published by the way 
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Repost by • @tbirgersson This is the last piece of mine from the “Answering Pravu” project. A Tibetan butter tea bowl that I have had for ever and repaired by lining it with hand raised 925 Sterling silver sheet, 0,4 mm thick. 
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“Answering Pravu”  A verbal/non verbal conversation between The Philosopher Pravu Mazumdar and seven makers was one of the best collaborations I have done in resent years. I am now working on a printed publication documenting the Munich event. “Answering Pravu The Book” will be released during 2018. 
Thank you Pravu Mazumdar, Karen Pontoppidan, Miro Sazdic, Henrik Brandt, Fredrik Ingemansson, Magnus Liljedahl and David Clarke for all the questions and answers.  The fantastic first and last frame in this carousel post are the only ones by@christianhabetzeder
#christianhabetzeder #klimt02 #tobiasbirgersson #munich #germany #bavaria #925sterlingsilver #silver #woodworking #carving #woodart #philosopher #corpus  #metal #art #sweden #swedish #nordic #design #woodartist #buddha #tibet #stockholm #konstfack #wine #gallery #silverart #food #currentobsession #artist
I couldn’t bring myself to stamp the 02mm silver I couldn’t bring myself to stamp the 02mm silver lining so it had to be a “coin” as an Inlay under the foot of the bowl. The option to skip the stamps was never considered I love my large St Eriks stamp patron Saint of Stockholm and the stamp that marks it as being made in the city of Stockholm. 
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@perrekrukis #silver #coin #madeforafriend #craft #woodworking #metalart #sterlingsilver #nordicdesign #sankterik #stamping #mark #925 #usableart
Sometimes I allow myself to make something that I Sometimes I allow myself to make something that I would like to own and use in my everyday life. 
This is Moroccan Wood with a super thin lining of Silver. 
This one was made with love for a dear friend and supporter. @perrekrukis 
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#silver #marocco #wood #bowl #silverlining #craft #friends #handmade
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