Profile: Amanda Borges Högström – Only Natural Design Competitions

Amanda Borges Högström

Kontsfack University of Art, Craft and Design

Amanda Borges Högström (Stockholm, 1996) is a visual artist who primarily works in the textile field, where she combines artisanal knowledge with art and design. She works with different textile techniques when making her works, such as screen printing, weaving and knitting. Her artistry stems from an interest in trying to materialize philosophical questions that deal with the relationship between man, nature and animals, where the theme of man-made nature and domesticated animals is at the center. Within this theme, she reflects on various issues and on the complexity of these relationships, on moods linked to this subject, different ethical approaches and on our place in nature. Drawing often forms the basis of Amanda's creative process. It is a way of working that becomes a source of inspiration and a guide for the process. The often figurative motifs serve as a basis for the textile works she creates. By integrating her drawings into her work, Amanda combines her expression with modern and traditional textile craft methods. Each work is the result of an investigation where motif, texture, color and shape are different elements that create a complex and evocative story. With the hope of evoking feelings and thoughts in the viewer in relation to her works, she hopes to open doors to a deeper understanding of the ties we have to nature. By dedicating her art to the domesticated animals, Amanda wants to initiate a dialogue about their importance and about our responsibility towards them in our coexistence.

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Forest glade

Category: Interior

Competitions: Home Competition 2025

My idea for the rug 'Forest glade', a part of my degree project at the Textile department at Konstfack, came to me in the forest. I’ve wandered through places in a forest I know well—places I’ve visited many times before. I returned to the spots I know will soon be filled with wood anemones, just a few months from now. I’m not religious, but I believe I’m not the only one who would describe that moment as sacred. Capturing and preserving that fleeting instant when the forest floor is covered in a carpet of white flowers—that’s what I hope to express in my own rug. I painted a few sketches in watercolor and experimented with different compositions of tree trunks, anemones, and sunbeams reaching through the trees. I developed several ideas in Photoshop, using scans of my drawings. To contrast the calm and subtle expression, I chose to add something more unconventional and wild: a border made of longer rya pile, inspired by last year’s tall, untamed grass.