Photo: Petri Summanen
ABOUT
I am a Helsinki-based painter, working with oil on canvas and watercolour on paper as well as thread-based works.
My motifs are mainly figurative, I often depict people or clothes. Clothes are a source of inspiration also for my embroidered works on canvas or sewn textile pieces.
For me, clothes trigger memories of the body and life. Recurring themes are also woman and motherhood.
While painting for me often is about colours, space, movement and sketching, as if searching for something, embroidery and sewing feels more meditative, like slowly taking notes and attaching them.
CV
works in Espoo, lives in Helsinki
STUDIES
2020 MFA, painting dept., Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
2016 Painter, Free art school, Helsinki
2003 M.Soc.Sc., Helsinki University
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
2020-2021 O Worm Supreme, full-year exhibition in the forest surroundings of TUOTUO arts residency, Joutsa
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibitions
2019 Vanha Kappalaisentalo, Porvoo
2019 Allergy House, Helsinki
2017 Westers garden, Kimito
2017 Tenho Restobar, Helsinki
2016 Ateljee Bar, Hotel Torni, Helsinki
2014 Folkhälsan elderly home, Helsinki
2013 Galleri Arbis, Helsinki
Group exhibitions
2020 Kuvan Kevät, MFA show, Helsinki
2020 Kosminen salon, Kosminen, Helsinki
2019 Fondia, Helsinki
2018 Elverket, Tammisaari (with Kerstin Björk)
2016 Free art school degree show, Cable Factory, Helsinki
2016 Jetty Baracks, Helsinki
2014 Ateljee Bar, Hotel Torni, Helsinki
2014 Lokal Helsinki
2014 Pasila library, Helsinki
2013 Laakso hospital, Helsinki
GRANTS
2019 Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, project grant
2018 Nordic Culture Point, mobility grant
2018 Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, project grant
2017 Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, project grant
2016 Anita Snellman Foundation, stipend
MEMBERSHIPS
2016 Finnish Painters' Union, aspirant member
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Art collection of HUS, Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district
Finnish Art Society (artwork lottery 2019)
Stiftelsen Pro Artibus
Antti ja Kirsti Parkkisen säätiö
Hotel Torni
Private collections in Finland and abroad