Dolores Fors is a dollmaker, mask maker, and puppet designer situated in Uppsala, Sweden. Dolores makes dolls, masks, and puppets inspired by traditional puppet theatre, existential art dealing with the full emotional spectrum of humanity and the ever-deep mysteries and fears that the world is exposed to each passing moment.
Résumé
Educational background:
- Hantverkslärling: Higher Vocational Education Diploma,
Dollmaker apprentice to Tina Tombrock 2022-2024
Work experience:
- UNIMA Sweden puppet festival ”Figur- internationell festival för figurteater 2025″. Marketing, poster and flyer design.
- UNIMA Sweden puppet festival ”Figur- internationell festival för figurteater 2025″. Held workshop in puppet making.
- Backa konstkvarn 2025, poster designer, ”SHUUZEN / MENDING /LAPPA/ LAGA” exhibition.
- Puppeteer, pupper maker, scenography at Uppsala Kasperteater (the Uppsala Kasper theatre) 2024 – present
- Teacher at ABF (Workers’ Educational Association), puppet making ”Gör dina egna dockor för lek, teater och undervisning!” 2025, October
- Puppet maker, mask maker at Teater Essence’s production ”Get water” produced by Charlotte Gottfries, 2024; 2025
Handpuppets: mask - Dollmaker and puppeteer at Dolores Fors, 2016 – present
Individual courses and workshops:
- Puppetry coaching by Annika Arnell, several sessions, 2025
- University of Borås: Colour theory 1 – AT1FÄ1 2025
- Study circle leader, ABF (Workers’ Educational Association), 2025
- ”Professional mask-making”, Amanda Cederquist 2024 at Donna dell’Arte
- Lund University: Theatre Audiences and Audience Participation – TEAA01 2023
- ”Paper flowers”, a workshop led by Sara Hjelmstedt 2023 at Kaleido
- ”Marionettes and Masks”, a workshop led by the famous Swedish dollmaker Arne Högsander 2023 at Backa Konstkvarn
- Gothenburg University: Introduction to Artistic Approaches in Craft 1 – FKGCA1 2022-2023
- Södertälje Yrkeshögskola/Skillebyholm: Goethe’s Theory of Colours 2013
Exhibitions:
- (Coming) Group exhibition, Kvarnbo, Uppsala, 2026
Other publicity:
- AKT: Interviewed for article on Puppet theatre
- ERGO: Published article on Dollmaking 2021
Other:
- Member of Unima
- Member of Scen & Film (The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film)
Illustration & Design
- (Contest, Design)Yunnan Sourcing, Yearly Design Contest 2021, year of the ox 5th place
- (Contest, Design)Yunnan Sourcing, Yearly Design Contest 2022, year of the tiger 6th place
- Norrlands Varjehanda (Magazine illustration):
Issue 3 2020, Issue 4 2020, Issue 1 2021, Issue 2 2021, Issue 3 2021, Issue 4 2021, Issue 1 2022, Issue 2 2022