“Every Shellman piece is unique – no two are alike.
The mood of the day and inspiration from nature, science, music, pop culture or world events can set us off in any direction. It’s often reflected in our naming of a finished piece. Anything and everything is possible.
We strongly believe in an open mind – immediate dismissal of stupid ideas is a no-no.”

Mikael Hjärtsjö’s and Buster Eriksson’s premiere exhibition at Lindberg-on-Sea is truly a fantastic demonstration of the artist duos productive creativity and range.
Freestanding, pink-shaded Barnacle sculptures meets ‘Rooster and Warrior’s billowing ‘shell topography’ and ‘Big Bang’s cosmic installations, while rectilinear, strictly patterned mirror frames are combined with and contrast organic, richly detailed mirror frames – large and small – round, oval, square and rectangular.
Regardless of the great variety in styles and colour settings there is a graceful harmony over the exhibition room where each art piece holds its own space and constitution.
And they also have their very own background stories.

In the Tall Grass
A true Sisyphus task. Approximately 4 000 so-called ’tusk shells’ have been cut into the right length and put in place, one by one. Inspired by Stephen Kings novel. In Shellman’s tall grass twelve Sputnik sea urchins are hiding.
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Black Panther
A dark frame with a curving shape which, like a panther, graciously moves around an organically formed mirror.
The black and white small seashells are illuminated by almost psychedelically coloured Maillardi sea urchins in pink, red and purple.
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Marilyn
This organic, curved mirror developed after Buster’s first encounter with the black-and-white comedy ‘Some Like it Hot’ from 1959 where Marilyn Monroe costars against Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon – Perhaps a homage to the iconic actress’s renowned femininity?
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Round Littorina
An art piece which is a tribute to the Swedish south coast.
Cockles, Mussels, Oysters, and Littorina seashells all collected by hand along and outside the Scanian western coasts have been constructed into a robust and rough frame radiating of the Scandinavian windswept west coasts.
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Big Bang
The longest spines of the large sea urchin family is attached to a spieces plentiful in Southeast Asia – ‘Coelopleurus Maillardi’. They are like small, brightly coloured porcupines crawling in abundance on the bottom of the ocean. Shellman has converted them to stars and galaxies and transferred them in time and space, to the birth of the Universe.
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Dark Matter
To put it mildly, a richly detailed mirror, pompous in the truest sense of the word. As someone once said: “a punch in the face to minimalism”. Maximalism when it is maxed to the limit.
“We listened to Vetenskapsradion [Scientist’s radio] in the studio one day and there was a lot of talk about dark matter, black holes – enough inspiration for a truly dark Shellman mirror.”
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Barnacles – Wall and freestanding sculptures
Shellman very much like to work with these intensely pink Barnacles. They grow in harbour entrances, on jettys, and boat hulls and cause great damage, just like the smaller Barnacles can do along the Swedish coasts. Shellman’s Barnacles grow, among other places, in the waters around Papua New Guinea.
To the artworks; ‘Tripple, no touch’, ‘Pink Frenzy’, ‘Morning Glory’, ‘Barnacle 1’, ‘Barnacle 2’, ‘Mr Pink’

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