Artist Gallery

Date of birth: November 19th 1978

2001 Bachelor of Arts, Tampere Polytechnic University, School of Art and Media
2003 - Member of the Artists’ society of Tampere

Solo exhibitions (selected)

2004 Comic exhibition. Fuglafjørður library, Faroe Islands
2003 Paintings, bar Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä, Finland
2003 Installation, Museum of Pielinen, Lieksa
2002 Sculptures, Seitseminen nature centre
2001- Environmental artwork at Lakkasuo swamp, Orivesi

Group exhibitions (selected)

2004 Art goes camping. Hernesaari and Viikki, Helsinki, Finland
2004 Live art, installations. Uzupio gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 Sculptures. Railway station area, Savonlinna, Finland
2003 Environmental art exhibition, Billnäs
2003 Photographs, Työmaakoppi gallery, Tampere
2002 Comic exhibition, Tampere
2002 “Zona”, Rajatila gallery, Tampere
2001 Fine arts graduation show, Tampere
2001 Drawings, Voipaala art centre, Valkeakoski
2000 Photographs, Gents Ecological Centre, Belgium
2000 Photographs, Coulport, Scotland

Residencies

2004 Fuglafjørdur, Faroe Islands (Nifca)
2004 Grez-sur-Loing, France (The Finnish cultural foundation)
2004 Arenys de Mar, Spain (The arts committee of the Northern Carelia)

About my work

I’m interested about the contemporary folk tradition: what kind of stories people do tell each other these days. My next project is a sound-comic book, which will be based on the shameful and glorious stories that I’ve recorded mostly from the people from the eastern and northern parts of Finland.

In the Fuglafjørður residency I have finished a 100-paged sound-comic book, based on the shameless, traditional, Carelian stories. I have also recorded both spoken and sung stories here, arranged a story-telling evening and an comic exhibition.

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