Paintings highlighting stories of women who have helped shape British culture are part of three-year project by NPG The National Portrait Gallery has acquired five self-portraits by female artists as part of a three-year project to enhance the representation of women in its collection which is currently closed for a major refurbishment said the works highlighted stories of women who have helped shape British culture address issues of identity and gender stereotypes “They are not just portraiture of likeness The importance of these five acquisitions is they show the multifaceted identity of an artist but also of women more generally,” she said They include the first painted self-portrait by a black female artist in the gallery’s collection Åkersberga layers multiple faces in recognition of her roles as artist jälvporträtt Photograph: National Portrait Gallery London/Courtesy Richard Saltoun GallerySpeaking about the painting who emigrated from Tanzania to Sweden in the 1970s and eventually settled in the UK my conflicts – my whole life … It was a form of psychological survival.” Rose Finn-Kelcey was a major figure in the contemporary British art scene for more than four decades her work has been the subject of greater attention for its engagement with ideas around feminism shows two images of herself engaging in conversation while sitting on a bench at Speaker’s Corner in London’s Hyde Park By speaking to herself in a place where people have made speeches since the mid-19th century her self-portrait highlights how women’s voices have traditionally been unheard Chila Kumari Burman is also depicted twice in her 1988 self-portrait taking the distinct roles of a young woman at rest and a warrior It was created as part of a series of self-portraits in conjunction with her 2019 memoir in which she documents her relationship with Lucian Freud She said recently: “To see one’s self truthfully is one of the most challenging things for an artist… self-hatred is as invalid as self-love Susan Hiller’s Ace (Retrieved) is part of the artist’s series of portraits and self-portraits based on photobooth images. Hiller including “those who don’t own or can’t borrow cameras” Frigeri said: “Each of these self-portraits challenges traditional notions of female self-representation and identity.” When the National Portrait Gallery reopens next year it “will have many more women being celebrated on the walls – not only artists “This has plagued a lot of institutions for a very long time Female sitters and work by women were not considered a priority for many decades.” The NPG’s acquisition of the five self-portraits is part of a three-year project in partnership with the Chanel Culture Fund This article was amended on 8 March 2022 to correct the spelling of the surname of Susan Hiller EY financial advisor to E.ON in sale of district heating network Asking the better questions that unlock new answers to the working world's most complex issues AI insights CFO agenda EY Center for Board Matters EY helps clients create long-term value for all stakeholders our services and solutions provide trust through assurance and help clients transform EY.ai - A unifying platform Strategy, transaction and transformation consulting Technology transformation Tax function operations Climate change and sustainability services EY Ecosystems EY Nexus: business transformation platform Experienced professionals EY-Parthenon careers Student and entry level programs Talent community our purpose is building a better working world The insights and services we provide help to create long-term value for clients Confident CEOs embrace corporate transformation mindset using M&A and technology to navigate challenges and create long-term value Swedish Energy Strategy & Transactions leader Our Corporate Finance consultants leverage deep financial and capital markets experience to help CFOs drive sustainable value has agreed to divest its district heating activities in Åkersberga Åkersberga is a fast-growing municipality and the biofueled district heating business delivers c 70 GWh heat per year Solör is a Nordic producer and distributor of heat primarily in the Swedish and Norwegian markets through its Nordic Energy and Infrastucture Corporate Finance team acted as financial advisor to E.ON in the competitive transaction process Learn more of the transaction here Below you can find a selection of EY's recent deal alerts and you can also find a more extensive list on our Strategy and Transactions page. 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The owner supplies building materials from its Stockholm base throughout the Stockholm archipelago and needed an efficient way of getting to all its clients The main requirements that were asked of Kewatec were for a big deck to maximise cargo space a powerful crane for loading and unloading cargo minimal draught for greatest access to shore and a maximum 15-metre hull length Other requests included a kitchen/pantry and toilet for the crew in the event that they had to spend an entire day aboard Kewatec has certainly achieved these requirements in Harald 0.6-metre draught and displacement of 14.8 tonnes A hydraulic bow door is wide enough for cars and some larger equipment to self-load off a dock or beach whilst a Fassi deck crane can extend to reach the entire cargo area Propulsion is courtesy of a pair of Volvo Penta D6 330 DHP diesel stern drives the two engines give Harald a top speed of 34 knots The selection of stern drives rather than shaft driven propellers was made to enhance the shallow water capabilities of the vessel Also installed in the engine room is a MASE 700 auxiliary engine providing 230 volts power to the ship systems which include Simrad navigation and communication gear A Sidepower bow thruster has been fitted and aids with manoeuvrability and comes in handy when needing to load or unload at austere docks that are difficult to tie up to The diesel engines are fed by two 650-litre fuel tanks The wheelhouse has seating for a skipper and one deck hand in chairs that offer excellent visibility in most directions The aft of the wheelhouse is given to a cooking area whilst a toilet is located underneath Peab has been commissioned to build a new shopping center The customer is Fastica Åkersberga AB and the contract is worth SEK 180 million The project comprises new construction of a shopping center for Ica with the accompanying groundwork and parking as well as demolition of the existing building on the property The new building will be a wooden structure with a sedum roof and solar panels Peab will do the preparatory work for future construction of a three story office building The building will be certified according to Miljöbyggnad “As a community builder we’re happy we can simplify life for people living in Åkersberga It’s important to meet the growing need for service so we look forward to being part of building Maxi ICA,” says Lars Enroth Construction is expected to be completed in March 2023 The project will be order registered in the second quarter 2021 Peab is the Nordic Community Builder with 16,000 employees and net sales of SEK 57 billion With a local presence and focus on our own resources we develop do the groundwork and build everyday life where it’s lived Company headquarters are in Förslöv on Bjäre Peninsula in southern Sweden The Peab share is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm She grew up in the shadow of Kilimanjaro and never knew racism until moving to Europe As the ‘clandestine artist’ finally gets her due she looks back on a rich life lived in defiance of convention she would craft nocturnal art in her house in Åkersberga Swahili teacher and student; by night a clandestine artist we’re meeting in the basement of the Richard Saltoun gallery in London’s Mayfair As Nicodemus makes her way down the stairs before sitting down and suddenly springing to life The truth is she’s not on the wane at all: she’s a live wire with stories for days and an opinion on everything The walls are covered with her paintings: large scale vivid works that marry religious symbolism and figurative elements and have seen her described as “one of the strongest feminist voices to emerge from Eastern Africa in the past 30 years” The whole of the upstairs is dedicated to her work too having a career renaissance as she approaches 70 She was born in 1954 in Marangu, the Tanzanian town that is the starting point for most people who scale Mount Kilimanjaro Nicodemus would set off on her own philosophical expeditions which would often put her at odds with authority figures she questioned the priests about inconsistencies in their teachings – she once threatened to leave the Lutheran church and go to the Catholic one down the road to see if she could get answers She was so outspoken that her father used to worry about her getting into fights “He used to tell everybody that he would like to have a big pocket so he could take me everywhere to protect me,” she says ‘When I came to Sweden it was the first time I looked at my skin and said Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianNicodemus puts her pugilistic approach to life down to her grandmother who raised the artist and her siblings in a home with no male authority figure (her parents lived elsewhere in the town) Boys and girls would be treated equally at Makuna’s house A rota was produced for water collection and everyone was expected to pull their weight That might seem like a simple egalitarian system but it was radically different to the patriarchal Chagga tradition most children grew up in – and it instilled in Nicodemus a sense of right and wrong “My grandmother didn’t call herself a feminist,” she says she would object to being told she had to serve others ‘Cook breakfast for your brothers.’” To this Tomorrow they’re going to cook breakfast for me.” Such acts of defiance have become a recurring theme in Nicodemus’s life she got into teacher training school but then met her first love and eloped with the man who would become her husband: a Swedish economist from a well-to-do family who was working in Tanzania They got married and after his two-year contract ran out the pair returned to Sweden where they had a daughter I told my professors I’m going to study you which means you are going to be my specimensHer relationship with Sweden has soured over the years mastering the language and bringing up her daughter before she left for France bullet-pointed list with entries including: “I refuse to be a prisoner of racism sexism and the past … The Swedish chapter of my life is closed.” encountering racism for the first time in her life “That notion was not in my head,” she said I didn’t think about the fact he was a different colour There was never this notion of me being inferior In a bid to understand what was confronting her Nicodemus decided to study social anthropology reductive attitudes Europeans had towards their subjects Nicodemus was proud of Marangu: her family were educated; her town had a gallery and a teacher training centre; her father was an artisan a carpenter who repaired Lutheran churches The obsession with so-called primitive Africa was anathema to her “I told my professors that I think the people who need to be studied are you anthropologists which means you are going to be my specimen.” What did they say ‘Mother the 1982 self-portrait acquired by the National Portrait Gallery London/courtesy Richard Saltoun GalleryWhenever Nicodemus tells one of these stories it’s accompanied by a laugh that starts as a low almost inaudible hum and builds into a high-pitched giggle that often leaves her bent double She’s serious about the prejudice she faced but clearly revels in the mischief she caused seeing the funny side of the hopeless double standards of those around her She decided to move back to Tanzania so Carolina could get to know her family and the Chagga culture after taking part in weekend drawing lessons Within six months I’m going to exhibit in the Dar es Salaam National Museum.’ Her friends said she was mad but Nicodemus was serious She began painting and once she had 60 works she approached the director of the Tanzanian museum ‘I have come here with my works of art and poems I’m here and I’m not moving until you look at my art.’ He laughed and said The director liked her work and gave her an exhibition just as she had predicted and the poetry she created that sat alongside it There wasn’t the racial baggage of anthropology After getting divorced from her first husband, she met and married the Swedish art historian, TV producer and critic Kristian Romare who supported her financially so she could focus on her art and poetry full-time Nicodemus combined her anthropological skills with her artistic practice using her new freedom to interview women and ask them about their lives: sex workers cleaners and doctors – no one was excluded or considered unworthy The result was Women in the World which would see Nicodemus travel to Denmark Tanzania and West Bengal to do interviews and produce paintings inspired by her conversations “I collected more than 50 hours of tape about what it is to be a woman,” she says “I started by telling them everything about me from my childhood to work problems I faced happiness.” More work about trauma followed a collection of featureless women often in pairs that “addresses the triumph of the human spirit over suffering”; and 2004’s Reference Scroll on Genocide a 16-metre-long scroll documenting genocides and ethnic cleansings where she was one of the event’s revelations – despite having had her first solo exhibition in 1980 “So it was just the right time that they discovered me because I think I couldn’t cope any more.” The interest meant she didn’t have to worry about paying her bills leaving her to paint whenever she wanted and no longer needing to work at the care home It was one of the original paintings created in 1982 in Sweden that would bring Nicodemus her biggest success to date. In March 2022, her work Självporträtt, Åkersberga would become the first painted self-portrait by a black female artist to be acquired by the National Portrait Gallery That moment was the culmination of a journey that started in the foothills of Kilimanjaro the work was created only two years after she took up painting A reflection on the various roles she was expected to play – mother daughter – it’s a rare inward look at an artist who mostly tries to understand others As well as the solo show at Richard Saltoun and the National Portrait Gallery acquisition she has also just been offered a scholarship at Princeton So does she think all the defiance has finally paid off “I guess I never learned my place,” she laughs Everlyn Nicodemus is at Richard Saltoun Gallery, London An apartment building in Åkersberga north of Stockholm has been damaged by an explosion in the early hours of Tuesday morning The force of the blast at the building's entrance blew out windows on several floors Radio Swedenenglish@sverigesradio.se plus weekly summary on Fridays at 4.30pm on P2 (P6 89.6FM in Stockholm) Kontakta gärna Sveriges Radios forum för teknisk support där vi besvarar dina frågor vardagar kl You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience and he's had ample opportunity to flex them during his tenure but the party has been struggling in the polls.Just months after taking power his party failed to push its budget through reported the local newspaper.In the next election in 2018 his party got its worst result in over a century and it took four months of negotiations before a new government was put together.Earlier this summer he became Sweden's first Prime Minister in history to lose a no-confidence vote following a row over rent controls.However the opposition was unable to form a viable coalition to take over "Vietnam shown great faith in India's ability especially in modern technology": Union Minister Rijiju India sending Holy Relics of Lord Buddha to Vietnam a special gesture has generated tremendous spiritual faith: Kiren Rijiju then you have to also support us": Robinder Sachdev on equal partnership with Europe Russian President Putin strongly condemns Pahalgam Terror Attack Brazilian police arrest two people over alleged plot to attack Lady Gaga's concert Israeli PM Netanyahu discusses IMEC with Cyprus President; recalls conversation with PM Modi copyrights © aninews.in | All rights Reserved Archaeologists at a forest dig in Åkersberga have found a dozen ceramic figures with faces believed to be from the Stone Age making them the oldest objects ever found with a human face in Sweden The small clay figures were discovered at the dig in Åkersberga where arrowheads and parts of fishing nets have previously been found The figures are said to have human facial features and are approximately five centimeters high It is the first find of human-like figures from the Swedish Stone Age Niclas Björck says the unique find provides an insight into how people might have looked in the Stone Age "One can mark the dress and the hair on them so it is a fantastic snapshot of how people looked during the last part of the Stone Age." What the figures were used for is still unknown it is likely that they may have represented some kind of gods of the Stone Age people who lived during that period "I think these figures had a great impact in their world perhaps this was the best way to communicate these stories to the next generation," he tells Vetenskapsradion What do you pack when you only have three minutes to pack up your life - or 30 minutes It's been about two weeks since they first set foot in Sweden now a group of refugees from Ukraine are beginning to process what they have been through Radio Sweden meets them in a temporary accommodation in Åkersberga Ulla Engbergulla.engberg@sverigesradio.se the government announced that anyone wanting to buy an electric car with the 70,000 kronor government rebate would have to buy or order it before midnight on Tuesday This meant an extremely busy day for car dealers around Sweden the phones haven't stopped ringing," said Orod Ashkani Stockholm police said they found what are believed to be the priceless funeral regalia stolen earlier this summer on top of a rubbish bin in the northeast suburb of Åkersberga The royal regalia - two crowns and a royal orb dating back to the 17th century - was taken from the Strängnäs Cathedral in July 2018 police say it is "likely" that these are the missing items and the ongoing trial against a 22-year-old man has been put on hold to include the possible new evidence Radio Sweden spoke with Christofer Lundgren about his feelings after he heard the news.  Ulla Engbergulla.engberg@sverigesradio.se