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Jewellery workshop for children 27.8.
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Jewellery workshop for children 27.8.
27th of August jewellery artist Mervi Kurvinen will keep Jewellery Workshop for Children at Galleria Norsu from 5 to 7pm.Welcome!
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ÅT SKOGEN? 9.6. – 8.8.2010
Galleria Norsu celebrates it's 5th anniversary 9.6. – 8.8.2010.Caroline Lindholm, Inni Pärnänen, Åsa Lockner, Kirsi Kivivirta, Karin Widnäs, Nathalie Lahdenmäki , Erna Aaltonen, Tuulia Penttilä, Rudi Mertz, Markku Kosonen, Soili Arha, Aino Kajaniemi, Nina Nisonen ja Rutsuko Sakata, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Janna Syvänoja, Irina Pått sekä Camilla Moberg and Tuomas Ervamaa.
Photo: Nithikul Nimkulrat
Jewellery artist of the month: June
Galleria NorsuEUN YEONG JEONG
I discovered Eun Yeong Jeong's jewelry for the first time in Munich where her work was shown at Talente 2009. Her jewellery pieces are complex organic forms which take inspiration by nature for their shape and for their material. They are beautiful art ornaments which stimulate all senses with their tactile properties, intricate patterns and surfaces, emotional associations to life and death.
Eun Yeong lives and works in the US, where she has been largely awarded and granted. I am fond of her approach to jewellery art as a place of investigation of natural phenomena and mystical enquiries.(By Serena Holm)
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Photo: Eun Yeong Jeong
Jewellery artist of the month: May
Galleria NorsuSerena Holm
"Antique porcelain dolls, precious stones and diamonds, gold and silver and many more materials embroider Serena's pieces creating a very well-set theater where reality and fantasy blend , where fairy tales and fables meet each other. Every single compositional and technical tiny detail draws you into another world, mesmerizes and astounds you. Give a meticulous look to her pieces. Her antique dolls may talk to you, color of stones may blind you and all of a sudden you may find yourself in wonderland." by Özay Emert
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Jewellery Artist of the Month: April
Galleria NorsuÖzay Emert is a very talented jewelry artist from Turkey. In 2008 she got her MFA degree at HDK (School of Design and Crafts) in Gothenburg.
In this project, she has drawn inspiration from her Turkish cultural heritage. The collection of jewelery called "Either seem as you are or be as you seem"
is inspired by objects used by Sufi Dervish for head resting during their pray in 13 century.
When I look at Özays jewelry I am usually dazzled by its beauty, fragility and toughness. A mixture of old fashioned romance, spirituality, and the modern day tough climate. As they are portrayed with much heart and soul, it is hard not to fall in love with them.
by Elisabeth Kvist
Jewellery Artist of the Month: March
Galleria NorsuElisabeth Kvist is a young Swedish jewellery artist who is currently apprenticed to a goldsmith in Gothenburg. She received her BA in Jewellery Art from HDK (School of Design and Craft) in 2007.
In this project she has made highly personal interpretations of images ranging from famous works of art to homemade embroidered pictures she found at flea markets. She tries to find a balance between proper
goldsmith's work and the playful freedom of artistry. In order to illuminate them she has used techniques that are disappearing in today’s society. She has also deliberately used techniques she has not tried
before in order to evolve and loose some of her own taboos.
-Therese Berg
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Jewellery Artist Of The Month: February
Galleria Norsu"Therese Berg is a young Swedish artist, in 2009 she received her BA from HDK (School of Design and Craft) in Gothenburg.
In her degree project called “beauty tinged with…” she worked with poems and fragments of text as a source of inspiration.The texts where about subjects that she can relate to: solitude, vulnerability and the longing for love, but at the same time they talked about strength and about being safe. Beauty with an undertone of sadness.
The pieces where made to tell a story, not only to adorn the wearer. For Berg it was important that the pieces where interesting from all angles, the backings is a contrast to what you first see, and when it is worn it is a secret only the wearer knows. This was to reflect the feeling of being sad on the inside but keep a happy facade.
Berg finds a beauty in worn things, she sees that they have been used and loved, this was a quality she wanted to give to the pieces she made. In this projects as in many before she worked with a large range of different materials Iron, epoxy resin, plaster etc. The value of the piece is not the price of the material, it is the time and emotions you put into them."
Lisa Björke
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IT'S NORWEGIAN
14.01– 13.2.2010Product designers from the participating companies:
Anna Øren; Ann-Tove Engenes & Katrine Nylund & Kristine Dybwad & Åsne Midtgarden; Bleed; Bjørn Refsum & Hilde Angelfoss; Cathrine Kullberg; Formel Industridesign; Fredrik Melby & Kjetil Wold; Frostprodukt AS; Hans Bleken Rud; Hans Brattrud; IDW Inc.; Jac Jacobsen; Johan Ringdal; Johan Verde; Jostein Magerøy; Jens Olav Hetland; Ksenia Movafagh; Martina Carpeland; Norway Says; Olav Joa; Pentti Hietanen & Per Bjørnsen & Pia Bjørnstad; Peter Natedal & Thomas Kalvatn Egset; Peter Opsvik; Rudi Scherf; Sara Skotte; Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni; Shawn Littrell; Tias Eckhoff
IT'S NORWEGIAN
Photo: Scandinavian surface
Jewellery Artist Of The Month: January
Lisa Björke is young Swedish jewellery artist who is currently doing her MA in Konstfack, Sweden.Björke works with jewellery because she thinks it’s a clever and never ending way of expressing her thoughts in. Björke likes the fact that she always has the body to relate to....but it doesn't have to be a human body.....just a body to adorn.
Björke says that she loves the fact that she can choose any material, if she decides it is a material for jewellery...well, then it is. The value is not the price of the material I start of with....it's the time and love she puts in the material that makes the piece valuable in the end. To make jewellery is to love and to be inspired of the world around her or the world
she has in her mind....
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Jewellery Artist Of The Month:December
"Märta Mattsson is a young jewellery artist from Sweden. She graduated from HDKSchool of Design and Craft in Gothenburg and is currently studying at theRoyal College of Art in London. Märta is an open – minded artist who makes exciting and strongly intriguing jewellery. Her pieces are based on the tension that exists between attraction and repulsion. Memories and experiences from her childhood as
well as nature are her source of inspiration. She translates her bizarre fantasies in a unique way. Her jewellery speaks its own and strong language which makes the viewer to marvel over there oddity."
Francisca Bauzá Förster
Leena Juvonen-Beyond the Glance
26.11. – 9.1.2009"I am used to search shapes and surfaces from environment. That was my only plan also in Guldagergaard. Usually I am seeking something manmade, but with the surface that is like smoothed by nature, like marks of water, rust, sun and wind. Using plaster moulds I try to reach something between nature and manmade. I need the presence of a human in the form, but there is charm in nature mould surfaces that attracts me. That’s what I have found in wood firing. The kiln finishes the surface, like it would have been made without hands or tools. First I took the moulds of the stones in the yard, but they were too organic for me. The right combination I got from the concrete plate on the back of the studio. I enjoyed working outside on the grass grey birds singing around.
Still the content of my work is in the pictures. I use iron oxide from printers ink to make decals from photographs on clay. Theme of my series “Beyond the Glance”concern about connections and communication."
Leena Juvonen
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Jewellery Artist Of The Month: November
Francisca Bauza is a young jewellery artist from Germany. She studies Gemstone and Jewellery Design in Fachhohschule Trier in Idar-Oberstein,Germany. Textile is an essential material in her work. It's a femininematerial, which is really closely related to the body. Francisca's pieces are beautiful, strong and yet tender. They tell stories about inner strenghts of people. by Hanna Aav
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KVARTS2: CAMILLA MOBERG AND KARIN WIDNÄS
KVARTS2: CAMILLA MOBERG AND KARIN WIDNÄS22.10. – 21.11.2009
Galleria Norsu, Kaisaniemenkatu 9, Helsinki
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Photo: W. Zakowski
NEW APPROACHES TO JEWELLRY ART
17.9. – 17.10.2009Last chance to visit this exhibition!
Among this works is Elo Uibokand's interesting jeweleries.
She states:
"Healing
The emphasis of my theme lies on healing and compassion.
Compassion demands for warmth, security and care.
The materials are, mostly, brown ceramics and dark-grey woollen cloth.
The chosen materials both involve basic warmth for me; it’s about human touch, the touch of a hand, the warmth of the touch."
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Jewellery Artist of the Month: Hanna Aav
Hanna Aav studies jewellery and stone object design in the Saimaa University of Applied Sciences in Lappeenranta. Her jewellery is imposing and unique, with unconventionally used materials and colours. The jewellery series ”Sweetness” was born while she was working in Japan. The themes of the jewellery are youth and innocence. They have been dealt interestingly with the aid of sweets, but her jewellery also works independently, without knowledge about its background.
NEW APPROACHES TO JEWELLRY ART
Eight newly graduated jewellery artists, Eeva Kotiharju, Elo Uibokand, Taru Kauris and Janica Hiipakka from Saimaa polytechnic and Anna Kantanen, Anne Kokkonen, Kristiina Suokas and Minna Vainikka from Lahti institute of Design,presents their newest works. Two schools - eight approaches to jewellery art.
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Uniques in Galleria Norsu 17.9 -17.10.2009
Kristian Venäläinen, Pekka Vuorisalo and Petteri Huotari uses various materials and techniques in their works. Common for this exhibition is experimental production method, even using the same technique each piece is different from each other. Studying also how material creates the shape by itself.
Jewellery Artist of the Month: Taru Kauris
Taru Kauris was graduated from Saimaa University of Applied Sciences as stoneobject and jewellery designer in spring 2009. In her diploma work she explored chains and history behind them. Taru’s work indicates her own standards of beauty. In her work she brings together new and old creating original and impressive modern jewellery.
Thoughts and object on the move SEMINAR 5.9.2009
Gésine HackenbergMonica Gaspar
Love Jönsson
Pontus Lindvall
Gabi Dewald
The seminar language is English.
The seminar is free of charge. Please register to the seminar and evening party to galleria@norsu.info by September 2nd 2009.
Seminaari on maksuton. Pyydämme teitä ilmoittautumaan sekä seminaariin että iltatilaisuuteen 2.9.2009 mennessä osoitteeseen: galleria@norsu.info.
Seminaarikieli on englanti
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Jewellery Artist of the Month: Eeva Kotiharju
Eeva Kotiharju is a young jewellery artist from Lappeenranta.In Galleria Norsu she is exhibiting some of her older works from her thesis with some brand new jewellery.
The theme for her work has been interdependencies that people have via different kind of facial expressions.
SKILL
SKILL4.6. – 8.8.2009
GALLERIA NORSU, HELSINKI
THOUGHTS AND OBJECTS ON THE MOVE
about think tank’s exhibition concept
This is an unusual display of objects. They have been chosen by the members of Think Tank, as a part of our ongoing discussion on different aspects of craft and the contemporary applied arts. Every year we meet in the city of Gmunden (Austria), to give papers and discuss around a certain theme that changes from year to year. With us, we bring two objects, more or less in the size of a hand luggage, or even a trouser pocket. With their in-dispensable presence, these objects function as extensions of our thoughts, keep our debate focused and later on allow us to communicate with the public. This ongoing, ’incidental’ collection of objects speaks of different working conditions, ways of thinking, concepts, materials and cultural positions.
Dynamo 0:1
0:1Young Nordic glassart: Kjersti Johannessen, Tuva Gonsholt, Louise Olsson, Anna Bäckman, Lene Lunde ja Ina Kristin Hove
Photo: Louise Olsson
Animal series
LEM is group formed in a petrol station in Finland in 2008 while the members were enjoying a pitstop on a high way on their way to Helsinki. They had met previously while chopping wood on a night watch for a wood-firing kiln. The group consists of three Helsinki University of Art students,
Saara Kaatra, Laura Itkonen and Lotta Veromaa who all study at MA Applied Art and Design.
‘Animal Series’ is the first project by LEM and it is sponsored by Iittala Group. ‘Animal Series’ tells
stories through animals in everyday ceramic tableware, creating new life and meaning for everyday common objects.
Photo: Saara Kaatra
THREE THREADS 29.4. – 30.5.2009
THREE THREADSAino Kajaniemi, Kristin Saeterdal ja Ane Henriksen
The Finnish textile artist Aino Kajaniemi presents her work in collaboration with her colleagues from Norway and Denmark, Kristin Saeterdal and Ane Henriksen. “Three Threads” exhibition is the dialogue between minimalism and abundance; the Scandinavian clearness and the scarcity meets the decoration and stories around us. The art pieces of each artist are the essential part of this whole, they complete each other’s work and their tapestries show versatile tapestry weaving and way of working.
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Nanna Bayer: NASIENIE II
Nanna Bayer is a ceramic artist living in the village of Fiskars. Her new works are extreamly fragile and sensitive, borrowing their colours from flowers and forms from shells.Read more
A journey
A JOURNEYTen Finnish ceramic artists present their work after a month in a recidency program, FuLe, in China: Erna Aaltonen, Risto Hämäläinen, Leena Juvonen, Catharina Kajander, Miia Kallio, Kirsi Kivivirta, Maarit Mäkelä, Heikki Rahikainen, Satu Syrjänen and Riitta Talonpoika.
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