Smáragata 2
101 Reykjavík
Ísland
Ísland
Sími: 5517712
GSM: 6947712
Einkasýningar
Samsýningar
Samsýningar 2007
Hátið tjránna, Barnaheill (Save the Children) annual auction of fine art
Ísland
Nám
Nám 1987-1990
Bretland
BA (Hons), Fine Art (Sculpture) 1990; Welsh Colleges Fine Art Graduate of the Year Award, National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1990
Nám 1977-1981
Bretland
Diploma in Landscape Architecture, DipLA(Glos) 1981;
BA, Landscape Studies 1980
Meðlimur félaga
Styrkir og viðurkenningar
Umfjöllun
2010.06.26
Morgunblaðið
Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen
Óður til íssins / Ode to the Ice
p.40, preview
2010.06.22
R.U.V.1/Icelandic state radio
Interview
Midday News
2006.09.05
Morgunblaðið
Anna Joa
Áþreifanlegur hverfulleiki / Touching the Intangible
p.41, review
2006.08.22
R.U.V.1/Icelandic state radio
Haukur Ingvarsson
Interview
Viðsjá programme
2006.08.18
Morgunblaðið
Mountainworks, Coffee Paintings and Whistling Kettles
p.24, preview of Menninganótt openings
2004
Exhibition pamphlet
Ragna Sigurðardóttir
Veran í deginum / Thing of a day
Reykjavik City Art Museum publication
2003.07.18
Athens News
Stella Sevastopoulou
Time Space
p.37, Show of the week, preview
2003.03.29
Morgunblaðið ( Lesbok )
Ragna Sigurðardóttir
Tveir svartir suðir / Two Black Sheep
p.14, review
2003.03.18
Fréttablaðið
Guðsteinn Bjarnarson
Málar með ryði og ís / Rust Paintings
p.41, preview
2003.03.15
Morgunblaðið
Mörk hins sýnilega heims / Traces of the Visible World
p.36, preview
2002
Art Review ( Print Supplement )
Charlotte Edwards
Thinking out of the Box
Annual print review
2000.11.18
The Times
Rachel Campbell-Johnston
RCJ´s Best Five Exhibitions Nationwide
preview
2000.10
Art Review
The Times of Our Lives: Beginnings
p.27, preview
2000.02.27
Morgunblaðið
Halldor Björn Runolfsson
Hörund pappirsins / The Skin of the Paper
p.18, review
2000.02.05
Morgunblaðið ( Lesbok )
Slæst við klakkan / Warring with Icefloes
p.2, preview
1998
The Dictionary of British Artists Since 1945
David Buckman
p.791, Art Dictionaries Ltd., Bristol
1997.11.08
The Guardian
Robert Clark
Massing Unmassing
Nationwide pick of the week, ( U.K. ), The Guide, pp.10-11
1997
Exhibition pamphlet
John Russell Taylor
Massing Unmassing
Turnpike Gallery publication
1996.12.10
Morgunblaðið
Bragi Ásgeirsson
Pappírsverk/skúlptor / Paperworks/Sculpture
p.24, review
Aðrar upplýsingar
My staple medium is the fall-out from volatile, short-lived processes that run their course and leave behind them a chronicle of events that are dislocated by the passage of time.The large-scale ice-melt works operate somewhere between sculpture and drawing. Really the flattened remains of defleshed objects in the round, they allude to the paradox of the material world, and draw as their primary source from the metaphysics of landscape. Made from ice, but often shattered into explosive configurations suggestive of volcanics and seismic collision, these ultra-heavyweight drawings take on aspects of the Icelandic terrain: flood, faultline, bedrock and glacier sit on the paper surface as rusting iron fossils pressed flat by time and gravity.
The massing and unravelling of nature´s architecture, as an endless spiral of collapse and rebirth, is of interest to me first and foremost as an intensification time. Central to the ice-melt process is material change and transformation, as solid and void exchange roles, and the medium transmutes chemically on the paper. However, experiencing the work has inevitably been conditioned by our growing realisation that the earth´s systems may be breaking down, spear-headed by the shrinking of the ice-caps. The ghost-presences of extinct forms stranded on the surface of the drawings, therefore, increasingly becomes a contemporary commentary.
Iron, the material at the heart of the Industrial Revolution - and of humankind´s claim on the land by conquest or cultivation - is, in Iceland, the medium that breaks down the landscape from within. As the chemical weak link in the basalt, it´s the stuff that brings the mountain crumbling down onto the plain as oxidised scree and dust. The pools of iron space on the surface of the drawings acknowledge a distant geological past, but also a permanent state of change - now itself assuming a synthetic dimension - offering, perhaps, an intimation of unfamiliar and unsettling changes to come.
þessi stóru íslistaverk eda ísþrykk liggja einhversstaðar á mörkum höggmynda og teiknilistar; unnin úr ísblokkum og járnlitarefnum er smá saman bráðna ofan á pappírin. Við bráðnunina falla út efni sem minna helst á jarðvegsleifar eða steingervinga mótaða af tíma og þyngdarafli. Ryðlituð í mörgum blæbrigðum, en sumstaðar svört og sumstaðar blá.
Áferðarþykku listaverkin bera sterkan svip af atgangi íslenskra náttúruafla og stöðugum umbreytingum landsins; flóð ánna yfir eyrar og sanda, hopandi skriðjökla og jökulöldur, hreyfingar jarðskorpu og berggruns. þau endurspegla landið sem bæði gefur frá sér allt efni og sýnir.
Byggingarlist nátúrunnar er rakinn í sundur. Vafningurinn brotnar niður og endurfæðist aftur með tímanum. Breyting verður á efninu sem sundrast, sameinast, umbreytist og hleðst að síðustu upp sem misþykk setlög jarðefna og lita.
Í listaverkunum verður maður áþrefanlega var við þá óafturkallanlegu þróun, að innviðir jarðar og náttúru eru smá saman að brotna niður; jörðin hlýnar og jökulkápan bráðnar, þynnist og hopar. Dreggjar liðinna tíma - þess sem einu sinni var - reka á land á yfirborði listaverkanna; varðveitast þar og öðlast nýtt líf í samtímanum.