Transforming everyday objects
Johannes Vemren Rygh has a habit of using everyday objects as starting points for craft-based work. He also likes to address the viewer and the context where the work is presented. Read more
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Toy animals, yarn and glamorous design
Plastic toy animals, crocheting in yarn and precious metals are some of the elements Felieke van der Leest combines to make exciting, humorous and absurd jewellery. Her works are currently being exhibited at Permanenten – The West Norway Museum of Decorative Art. The show is called ‘Jewellery Circus’. Read more
Jewellery as Absurd Theatre
For many years Sigurd Bronger has been an outsider in contemporary jewellery art, but now he enjoys increasing attention – nationally, through his retrospective exhibition ‘Balloon Voyage’, and internationally, through the book ‘Laboratorium Mechanum’ pulished by Arnoldsche in Germany. Read more
Contemporary Ornamentation
Jewellery artists Elise Hatlø, Heidi Sand and Anna Talbot feel ornamentation is underestimated. To them ornamentation is a vehicle for telling stories and expressing ideas. Read more
Notes, issue 04/2011
Silver Prizes to Trine Hovden and Flora Metamorphicae, 20-year-old gets facelift and international focus, International seminar in Oslo: Home as a historical and contemporary context, Read more
Notes, issue 05/2011
Research project comes to a close, Konrad Mehus Retrospective, ‘SLUMP – Luck by Chance’ in Arendal, Read more
From Forest Deep to Metropolitan Poster Girl
Young Norwegian jewellery artists are hitting the international venues with exceptional designs. But – have these artists turned their back on the traditional Norwegian sources of inspiration – the deep forests and rough seas? Why is this new generation so successful? And what has happened before they came along? Read more
Hands on
Tone Vigeland’s art springs from a direct encounter between her hands and her materials. For more than fifty years she has created jewellery and sculptures that combine simple craft techniques with stringent aesthetics – works apparently liberated from any possible intellectual approach. Perhaps this is why people the world over describe her art as both timeless and placeless, and sometimes even magical. Read more