Lin Utzon

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Lin Utzon (born 21 May 1946) is a Danish designer who has created a wide variety of abstract decorative works from textiles to ceramics both in Denmark and abroad.[1][2]

Born on 21 May 1946 in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen,[3] Utzon spent her childhood in Hellebæk, Denmark. When she was 15, she moved with her family to Australia where her father, architect Jørn Utzon, was to embark on the construction of the Sydney Opera House.[4] After attending classes in painting and sculpture at East Sydney Technical College in Sydney, Australia (1967–1969), she studied textile arts at Copenhagen's School of Arts and Crafts (1967–1970).[2]

When she was 19, after disputes over the opera house, she and her family left Australia at short notice in April 1966.[5] Back in Denmark, she married the architect Alex Popov who had worked with her father in Australia. The couple had two children in the early 1970s, Naja and Mika.[6] After an early divorce, the children mainly lived with Utzon in her Danish home.[4]

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