This Pride, I’m releasing a body of work that feels closer to me than anything I’ve made before.
Created in the aftermath of healing—personal, political, and bodily—this series is an intimate archive of my personal queer experiences. From linocut prints to digital illustrations, each piece in this collection carries traces of survival, longing, and resistance. These works explore sapphic identity, politics, queer joy, and the complicated tenderness that follows harm.
The stars of this collection, in my humble opinion, are the linoprints: Sappho and Riot, which are hand made with love and rage. A testament to patience and trust, as it was a completely new medium, that I or course just sove right into.
Sappho [1-15] - first edition
A tribute to the Greek poet Sappho (600 BCE). Sappho’s deep affection for women has made her an enduring symbol of queer love. The very word lesbian is derived from her home island, and sapphic—meaning women-loving-women—comes from her name. Despite being separated from us by time, Sappho remains a vital icon for the lesbian and queer community: a testament to the timelessness of queer expression, art, and desire. Hand-pulled linoprints with water based ink on Hahnemühle acid free paper 230gr, A5. Signed and numbered as printed.
Riot [1-30] - first edition
A linocut tribute to the Stonewall uprising of 1969* — the night trans women of color, drag queens, and queers said no more to police brutality and systemic oppression. Stonewall wasn’t the beginning, but it was a turning point — a riot that ignited a global movement. In honor of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. A representation of grief, rage, and beauty, as they bleed together on paper: where protest and softness coexist. Hand-pulled linoprints with water based ink on acid free paper, 90gr, A5. Signed and numbered as printed.
Launch date and location for linoprints is June 8th, and it is first come first serve at KarmaKlubb x Below The Belt at Dattera til Hagen in Oslo. The remaining prints will be available for purchase online in the following week.
My digital pieces, made in the pinks found in of the LGBTQIA+ Progress Flag, are available today.
Expressions of this PINK collection shift between playful and painful.
«Just Kiss Them» captures the ache for love in a world that taught us to fear it. «Counting Cunts» is both confrontational and celebratory: a reckoning with shame and a reclamation of self. «Hard and Soft» is a quiet portrait of queer intimacy at rest. And «After the Rain» speaks softly of surviving hate—of still being here, still choosing pride.
«All Shapes and Sizes» and its follow-up work are chaotic and joyful—filled with boobs and vulvas and beauty in every form—an ode to trans, non-binary, and femme bodies in all their sacred variance.
These pieces are all about being seen. About making space. About learning, slowly, to stop apologizing for wanting equality, or love, or softness, or pleasure.
This is what queer pride looks like, for me: loud AND subtle, tender AND hard, wounded AND healing. In the end it is about being completely unrelenting end true to yourself—and still reaching for joy.
Be proud.
With love, Barbro