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Lotta Backman
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Born in Stockholm in 1948, Lotta Backman moved to the area outside Borås in 1974 and has worked as a professional artist since the early 1980s. Her practice spans painting in acrylic and watercolor as well as graphic printmaking, with lithography occupying a central place in her output. Over several decades she built a substantial body of printed editions, producing original lithographs at Nacka Stentryckeri and Lindströms Originallitografi from 1987 onward for some twenty years. Her prints - typically signed and issued in numbered editions of 250 to 290 - circulate regularly at Swedish auction houses and in galleries.
Backman's work gravitates toward the relationship between things and between the actual and the fictional. Titles such as 'Saga', 'Äggstanning', and 'Skärgårdsmotiv' suggest a visual world rooted in Swedish everyday life and nature, rendered with a graphic sensibility that balances observed detail against more lyrical or compositional arrangement. Her paintings, described in auction records as oil on canvas, extend this interest into a heavier, more tactile medium.
Her exhibition history is extensive. Solo shows at Borås Konstgalleri in 1985, 1989, and 1994 established her regionally, and she subsequently showed at Galerie Galax in Gothenburg, Galleri Puckeln in Stockholm, Grafiotheken in Stockholm, and Galleri Viktoria in Halmstad. Internationally, her work reached Gallery Art 54 in New York in 1992 and Paris venues including Galerie Façade in 2002 and Galerie Thuillier in 2003. Group exhibitions have taken place at Älvsborgssalongen, Borås Konstmuseum, and Stockholm Art Fair, among others.
Her works are held in collections belonging to a range of Swedish municipalities, county councils, and companies. She is represented by Galleri Ö.K and has been active through the gallery network Artworks.se, with auction appearances at Metropol, Borås Auktionshall, Garpenhus Auktioner, and Göteborgs Auktionsverk. Works command modest but consistent prices in the Swedish secondary market, reflecting steady collector interest in her printmaking.