Norske Grafikeres Fonds Printmaking Award 2019

Unbelievably thrilled and honored to be the recipient of Norske Grafikeres Fonds Printmaking Award 2019 at this year's National Art Exhibition (Høstutstillingen), and to have my work "No Name Woman" purchased by Johan Stray's Foundation and REV Ocean. Thank you to The National Jury, Norske Grafikeres Fond, and to my friends and family for their unwavering support.

Norske Grafikeres Fonds grafikkpris ble opprettet i 2015 for å øke interessen for og utviklingen av norsk grafikk. Prisen på 50 000 kroner blir hvert år tildelt en kunstner ved Statens Kunstutstilling, Høstutstillingen som utmerker seg innenfor grafikkmediet. Norske Grafikere er en landsdekkende forening for yrkesaktive grafikere og et visningssted for samtidsgrafikk. Foreningen ble stiftet i 1919 for å gjøre grafikken kjent som egen kunstart og for å bedre kunstnernes situasjon. Årets priskomité består av Petter Buhagen, Gro Finne, og Per Kristian Nygård fra Norske Grafikere Fondsstyre.

Norske Grafikeres Fonds Graphics Award was established in 2015 to increase the interest in and development of Norwegian graphics. Each year, the prize of NOK 50,000 is awarded to an artist at the National Art Exhibition (The Autumn Exhibition), who excels in a graphic medium. The foundation is a nationwide association for professional printmakers and a display site for contemporary printmaking. The association was founded in 1919 to acknowledge graphics as an independent art form and to improve the situation for artists. This year's prize committee consists of Petter Buhagen, Gro Finne, and Per Kristian Nygård.

Artist in Residence, Department of Printmaking and Drawing

Delighted to be the new Artist in Residence at the Department of Printmaking and Drawing at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. For the next academic year, I will be assisting staff and students in the lithography workshops, while also having access to work on my own projects in these beautiful facilities. Thank you to Erik Solheim, Bror Mikkelborg and Jan Petterson for this wonderful opportunity - I cannot wait to get started.

Litografiska Akademin, Tidaholm

Together with fellow students from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, I have been enjoying two delightful summer weeks at Litografiska Akademin in Tidaholm, Sweden. Thank you to JM Schmidt for inviting us to work in these beautiful and historic workshops. The residency will culminate in an exhibition at Tidaholm’s lithographic museum in September and October 2019.

You can read a feature (in Swedish) about our stay in the local newspaper Västgötabladet.


MFA Graduate Show 2019

Our MFA Graduation Show “A Better Past is Still Possible” can be viewed at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Fossveien 24, Oslo) until 16th June between 12-18:00 every day.

“A better past is still possible” brings together contributions by Ask Bjørlo, Cathrine Alice Liberg, Elina Nilsson, Erika Reed, Eyvind Solli Andreassen, Geir Backe Altern, Helle Høeg Voldstad, Henriette Pi Eik, Ida Immonen, Ingibjörg Guðmundsdóttir, Jamie Kroeger, Klaus Lindbak, Kristine Ervik, Lucia Fiorani, Magdalena Kotkowska, Maïna Joner, Margrethe Iren Pettersen, Nina Björkendal, Olaf Tønnesland Hodne, Sun Ming Rui, Sarah Kazmi, Shahrzad Malekian, Suzannah Rehell Øistad, Thomas Iversen and Md Wahiduzzaman Bhuian.

The exhibition is curated by Joerg Franzbecker.

(Photos by Vegard Kleven)