Brixtol Textiles Textile Art Scholarship '26

Scholarship Recipient 2026: Alice Shulman

“Peripheral Emotions”

Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Stockholm

In 2022, we established a biennial scholarship for textile art. That year, the Brixtol Textiles Textile Art Scholarship was launched.

Every two years, a selected artist is awarded the scholarship and given the opportunity to create a unique body of work using deadstock fabrics from our production.

The resulting artwork is then showcased in Stockholm.

Alice Shulman presents nine new installed works created as part of the Brixtol Textiles Textile Art Scholarship 2026. On the rooftop terrace of Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, the exhibition explores the relationship between glass and textile through sculptural forms carrying waxed fabrics, frayed threads, and folded surfaces.

The works continue Shulman’s ongoing project Emotional Landscape, which explores emotion through material, form, and space. Moving between transparency and opacity, control and collapse, the sculptures embody what Shulman describes as “peripheral emotions” — emotional states that remain beneath the surface, quietly shaping how we move through the world.

“The works are about emotions that remain beneath the surface,” says Alice Shulman. “Not the most immediate ones, but the ones that quietly return and shape how we move through the world.”

The works are developed in close collaboration with master glassblowers in the Czech Republic, balancing technical control with unpredictability and material tension.

Light, wind, reflection, and movement become part of the installations themselves, allowing the works to shift and respond to changing conditions throughout the day.

“I have been interested in how materials can carry and express emotion. In this project, I explore the relationship between glass and textile — two materials with very different properties — and how they can come together to create something both fragile and strong. Each installation represents a specific emotional state, but together they form a larger narrative about complexity and coexistence.”

— Alice Shulman

Alice Shulman studied at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm and Central Saint Martins in London.

She is part of the creative platform Emotional Landscape, developed in collaboration with Finnish glassblower Eino Mäkelä.

For more information about the scholarship or to schedule an interview, please contact:

Elin Ullenius elin.u@brixtoltextiles.com