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Meet the Swedish artist making glassblowing punk

By Allyson Shiffman
Highley detailed glass sculptured standing on a grafitti podiumwith a wooden background

As an artist, Nielsen is influenced by graffiti, music and pop culture. Here, best exemplified by his work Mixed Emotions, 2023. Photo: Mikael Neimi

Classically trained in Sweden’s historic Glasriket, Fredrik Nielsen has little interest in making pretty glass. Instead, the Stockholm artist creates monstrous, molten ‘lumps’ inspired by punk, graffiti and pop culture – earning commissions from Acne Studios and Diesel and the attention of Loewe along the way