Clara was born in Stockholm where she started her art educations. 

She went to Pietrasanta in Italy, where she recieved the technical handcraft of stonesculpturing from local

maestros.

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From 1990 and several years ahead, she lived in Berlin, Spain, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

In Tanzania she created east africas first slavemonument.

During two years she worked with the slavemonument in the city of Bagamoyo meaning "Where you leave

your heart". The monument was inaugurated in december 1998. Bagamoyo was the endstation for all the

slave caravans. Here the intention was that the survivors should eat and gain weight so that they could be

transported to Zanzibar and sold at the market.

Today the slavemonument is located at the old marketplace for the slaves next to the Anglican Church in

Stonetown Zanzibar and is a wellknown tourist attraction. 

Even after all these years living away from Africa she is still strongly influenced by the history and the depth

of the people she met in Bagamoyo, where she also feels that she has left a piece of her heart.

After this she got a commission from the American Embassy to create a statue of memorial for the deceased

at the bombing of the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam. The monument was inaugurated at the National

Museum in 1999. ​

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Clara now lives in Sweden on her favorite island called Öland.

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