Clara was born in Stockholm 1966, where she started her art educations. 

She went to Pietrasanta in Italy, where she recieved the technical handcraft of stone sculpturing 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. The slavemonument in Zanzibar consists of five life-size body sculptures in concrete, at the old slavemarket place in Stonetown. The monument was inaugurated in december 1998. She made a monument "Hope out of Sorrow" standing at the National Museum of Dar es Salaam. The monument is dedicated to the victims of the american embassy bombing in 1998.

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Clara became a guest artist at Chapungu sculpture Park  in Harare, Zimbabwe . She got a lot of inspiration from the shona sculptors.

She moved back to Sweden, in 2000 and since then she has been working a lot with the purple onyxstones from Zimbabwe. She prefers to work with handtools instead of machines.

 

Now she lives on her favorit island Öland,and works with its beautiful limestone.

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