Sandra Stigert

Karsborg, Sweden

Sandra Stigert lives and works in a small rural village. She is an artist and craftsperson specializing in traditional woodcraft, with a particular focus on fan birds. Her practice combines storytelling, sustainability, and heritage through a tactile making process. Working with traditional craft methods, she explores the relationship between wood, place, and memory, and is especially drawn to materials that carry a history and reflect their natural environment.

Lakes and forests are central to both her life and artistic inspiration; their cycles and ecosystems shape the rhythm of her practice. Through carving, she reflects on how we coexist with freshwater landscapes and what they can teach us about care, time, and renewal.

"Echoes of the Lake" is a collection of hand-carved birds made from reclaimed or lakeside materials, each shaped by both nature and tradition. The pieces articulate a dialogue between human touch and environmental forces, ripples, drift, and migration, imagining sustainable futures as poetic, locally grounded, and rooted in respectful making.