Britta Marakatt-Labba
Britta Marakatt-Labba | |
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 Britta Marakatt-Labba in 2019 | |
| Born | 18 September 1951 Idivuoma, Karesuando, Sweden |
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| Website | brittamarakattlabba |
Britta Margareta Marakatt-Labba (born 18 September 1951 in Idivuoma, Karesuando, Sweden) is a Swedish Sámi textile artist, painter, graphic artist, and a member of the Máze Group.
Early life and education
[edit]Marakatt-Labba is one of nine children born into a reindeer-herding family. When she was five, her father Johannes Marakatt died, leaving her mother Anna Maria Nutti to raise nine children by herself.[1] She studied at Sunderby Folk High School (Swedish: Sunderby folkhögskola) from 1971 to 1973. From 1974 to 1978, Marakatt-Labba studied at the Art Industrial School (Swedish: Konstindustriskolan) in Gothenburg, Sweden from which she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Textile Art. From 1999 to 2002, she studied at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino, Norway.
In 2014, she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Arts at Umeå University.[2]
Career
[edit]While Marakatt-Labba works with numerous types of media, it is primarily her narrative embroidery using motifs from the Sámi culture and mythology that she is known for around the world. In addition to textiles, she works with watercolors and lithographs. She has also illustrated numerous books and designed costumes and sets for plays.[3]
In connection with the Álta conflict in the 1970s, Marakatt-Labba created the embroidered narrative Garjját (The Crows), which depicted crows landing downhill from Sámi protestors sitting outside of their goahti and turning into black-clad policemen as they marched up the hill to the protestors.[1] She joined the Máze Group: the Sámi Artists' Group in 1978[4] and was involved in creating the Sami Artists' Union founded a year later in 1979.
From 2003 to 2007, Marakatt-Labba created a piece entitled Historjá that tells the history and mythology of the Sámi people. This epic 23.5 m long textile artwork[5] is normally displayed in the Non-Experimental Sciences building at the University of Tromsø,[1][6] although it has also been exhibited as part of documenta 14 in Kassel, Germany in 2017.[7]
Awards
[edit]- 1993 – The Anna Nordlander Prize[8]
- 2000 – The Rubus arcticus Award
- 2011 – The Asa Kitok Scholarship[9]
- 2012 – The Kauppi Scholarship[10][11]
- 2015 – The Per Gannevik Award[12]
- 2017 – The John Savio Award[13]
- 2017 – Illis Quorum[14]
- 2018 – The Västerbottens-Kuriren's cultural award[15]
- 2019 – Stig Dagerman Prize[16]
- 2020 – Prince Eugen Medal[17]
Bibliography
[edit]- Jan-Erik Lundström (ed.): Broderade berättelser. Britta Marakatt-Labba, Koncentrat, Kiruna 2010, ISBN 978-91-633-7248-3
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Blindh, IngaBritt (8 May 2009). "Mästare på att berätta med stygn" [Master of telling stories with stitches]. samer.se (in Swedish). Samiskt informationscentrum. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Honorary doctors". umu.se. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Mon lea duhát jagi". ellesofe.com. Elle Sofe. Archived from the original on 11 August 2018. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Deaivvadeapmi Mázes, ulbmiliin ásahit ođđasit Mázejoavkku dálu". samediggi.no (in Northern Sami). Norwegian Sámi Parliament. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ Horsberg Hansen, Hanna. "Sámi Artist Group (Keviselie/Hans Ragnar Mathisen, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Synnøve Persen) (excerpt from documenta 14: Daybook)". documenta14. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Artist: Britta Marakatt-Labba 21.10.2017 – 30.09.2018". nnkm.no. Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-7148-7877-5.
- ^ "Arkiverade kopian" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 14 May 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ "Hon får Asa Kitokstipendiet" [She will receive the Asa Kitok Scholarship] (in Swedish). 3 February 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Stipendium till hyllad samisk konstnär" [Scholarship to acclaimed Sámi artist] (in Swedish). 25 September 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "Kiruna Konstgille: Bilder från Britta Marakatt-Labbas vernissage". kirunakonstgille.blogspot.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 5 August 2018.
- ^ "De får Per Gannevik-stipendiet". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 12 May 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "John Savio-prisen til Britta Marakatt-Labba Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum". nnkm.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
- ^ Ramberg, Ida (20 October 2017). "UiT-kunstner får medalje for samisk kunst". itromso.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 18 May 2022.
- ^ TT (23 May 2018). "Marakatt-Labba får VK:s kulturpris" [Marakatt-Labba to receive the VK cultural award]. Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 May 2018.
- ^ "Annual Award". dagerman.us. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Kungen delade ut Prins Eugen‑medaljen". Kungahuset (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
| International | |
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| National | |
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- 1951 births
- Living people
- Swedish Sámi people
- Sámi artists
- People from Kiruna Municipality
- 20th-century Swedish women textile artists
- 20th-century Swedish textile artists
- 21st-century women textile artists
- 21st-century Swedish textile artists
- 21st-century Swedish women artists
- 21st-century Swedish artists
- Recipients of the Illis quorum
- Swedish embroiderers
- Sámi women