The freelance musician, who also works in teaching, recording, and playful workshops with wind instruments, plans to present his work during the scholarship year. Region Gotland has awarded this 50,000 kronor scholarship annually since 2025 to support professional cultural creators living and working on the island, promoting artistic development and innovative culture.
Other recipients include textile artist Caroline Fleur-Martini, who will spend a month at Dortmund's Künstlerhaus in Westfalen-Lippe, Germany. According to official sources, she wants to find new materials and develop new methods in her creative work, and gain new experiences to share upon return. Fleur-Martini lives in Hemse and belongs to the art collective HAK. Multidisciplinary artist Malte Rödström receives a scholarship for a one-month residency in Grez-sur-Loing, France. The young artist, who works with sound, movement, and sculpture, wants to use the stay to encounter new perspectives and is interested in how voices from France and Sweden can be interwoven in an ongoing work with the working title 'Kött & Blod'.
She wants to find new materials and develop new methods in her creative work, and wants to gain new experiences to share upon return.
Region Gotland's cultural scholarship for young people goes to animation duo Gabriel O'Sullivan and Dorothea Malmros and art collective Målarligan. O'Sullivan and Malmros, both raised on Gotland who met during high school in Visby, will work on an animated short film about mythical creatures and legends on Gotland. The duo has had several joint assignments in animation and illustration and exhibits high artistic ambition and quality. Region Gotland's culture and leisure department annually awards scholarships to one or more young cultural creators aged 16 to 25 to support young Gotlanders entering artistic professional life. This year, the 40,000 kronor scholarship sum is distributed to these two groups.
The exact dates for Caroline Fleur-Martini's residency in Germany and Malte Rödström's residency in France have not been specified. It is also unclear when Gabriel O'Sullivan and Dorothea Malmros' animated short film will be completed or what specific projects Målarligan will undertake with their scholarship.
He wants to use the stay to encounter new perspectives and is interested in how voices from France and Sweden can be interwoven in an ongoing work with the working title 'Kött & Blod'.