105:. Particularly concerned about the conditions for the black population, she depicted her feelings in her art, including in textiles, her growing interest. Not only did she produce large textile works for public display but in the 1970s began to sculpt children's portraits in terracotta and bronze. In her later years, she painted her mental images of birds in black and white as she was no longer able to distinguish colours. As an Expressionist, she has been compared to
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arranged a solo exhibition for her in 1943. Thanks to the interest of her reviewers, she soon became a full-time artist. In the 1950s, she spent a year in South Africa where she was upset by the conditions imposed on black people. On returning to Sweden she expressed her anti-apartheid feelings in
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