Recent graduate of Konstfack in Stockholm, artist, illustartor, and designer Fideli Sundqvist creates some beautiful sculptural paper illustrations. While these could be easily modeled on a computer and rendered out, there is something quite refreshing about the tactile objects she creates.

Sundqvist grew up in a creative environment in Uppsala. Her mother is a ceramicist and her father a historian. In the family home there was a small area in the kitchen that had been set up as a printing space where Sundqvist could be creative, and let her imagination grow.

“During one period in my life, I was completely engrossed by album-cover art,” she says. “I particularly remember one cover that was made from a linoleum cut, it was a real eye-opener to discover that art form.”

After high school Fideli moved to Stockholm to study at Nyckelviksskolan, and then at Konstfack graduating in the spring of 2011.

By her second year at Nyckelviksskolan she had already started cutting paper silhouettes using a scalpel, fascinated by all the possibilities paper art gave her. At first she worked mostly two-dimensionally but has increasingly switched to constructing and building three-dimensional paper objects that are then photographed. In 2011 Sundqvist published her first book “Birre, where are you?” which won first prize in publishing house Opal’s contest for picturebooks.