Calle Örnemark

Who is Calle Örnemark?

Calle Örnemark is an artist and sculptor from Jönköping Municipality, Sweden. He is particularly known for large wooden sculptures, but he also makes paintings and metal sculptures.

His first large sculpture was Jätten Vist completed in 1969 and standing over 11 metres high next to the European route E4, at Huskvarna. According to the legend, the giant was on the way home from a party in Västergötland. He threw some grass and soil into the lake Vättern for his wife to step on, thus creating the island Visingsö.

In the 1980s his very large outdoor wooden sculptures Bounty and Indiska reptricket at Riddersberg manor, south of Jönköping drew many visitors. The mobile Bounty resembled a ship and the 103 meter high Indiska reptricket was the worlds highest sculpture. Both were town down in 2007 after their condition had deteriorated.

His later work includes a wooden balloon in Gränna, Sweden and Morgans skip in Gratangen, Norway, showing the wrecking of Henry Morgan's ship Oxford in the Caribbean.

Örnemark lives and works in Gränna, but also has a studio on Visingsö.