Business name: AnnikaArt
Annika Berglund graduated from NCAD in 2010. Her career includes solo and group exhibitions nationally and abroad, a year as resident artist in NCAD, several awards including the Crafts Council’s price for Best Craft in the Garden 2008 and the National University of Ireland Art and Design Prize 2010.
Annika has created sculptural art work for over 20 years. Initially working in ceramics, then glass and bronze. Just before Covid struck, she was looking for less energy hungry means of expression and found that felted wool suited her way of working and visual language.
She spent 2020 and 2021 skilling up in felt and fibre arts. One of her earliest felt pieces depicted the corona virus and was acquired by the National Museum of Ireland.
Her latest solo show in 2021 was called Interlocked, featuring Felt work and Joomchi (an ancient Korean art form featuring “felted” paper).
Lately Annika has been very active in the guild of Feltmakers Ireland and has contributed as editor and contributor to the book “Exploring Irish Wool For Feltmaking”.n numerous exhibitions organised by Ceramics Ireland since 2002, exhibited in Sculpture in Context for three years and has participated in numerous other exhibitions, such as the RDS Craft Competition. She had her first solo exhibition in 2006.She won a prize for "Best Sculpture in the Garden" at Blooms in 2008 and the NUI student prize in 2010.Her work can be found in the collections of the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, the NUI (National University of Ireland), the Craft Council of Ireland, Microsoft Ireland and the Millcove Gallery Sculpture Garden.Since the start of the Covid pandemic, the artist has been exploring new media such as felt and mulberry paper.
