Ulrika Strömbäck is a ceramic artist and cook whose creative practice moves fluidly between the studio and the kitchen. Her ceramics explore structure, softness, and containment, drawing on traditions of women’s handwork such as lace-making, weaving, and binding. The same sense of touch, rhythm, and patience that guides her work with clay also shapes her approach to food. She loves cooking as an act of making, sensory, improvisational, and connected to material and place.
Born in Sweden and now based between Scotland and New York, Ulrika’s work reflects a northern sensibility: restrained yet warm, tactile, and attentive to natural variation. In her kitchen, as in her studio, she values processes that reveal the maker’s hand, improvisation, seasonal ingredients and recipes that evolve through repetition.
Her recent ceramic series explores fragility, mending, and the quiet strength of everyday objects, ideas that echo her appreciation for home cooking and shared meals. Whether shaping a vessel or stirring a pot, Ulrika finds beauty in imperfection and joy in the discipline of craft.
Ulrika Strömbäck
