Welcome to my second semester at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art | Kunstakademiet i Trondheim (KiT)*. The focus for my Master of Fine Art (MFA) studies shifted to humans’ connections to place. My artistic practice focussed on questions of identity and community and led me outdoors. I’m still learning from indigenous and academic teachers, finding my way forward. Read about my first semester here.
* Under the Faculty of Architecture and Design at Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)
Here’s a sneak peek into work from this semester:
Exhibit: på gjensyn! | see you soon!
Open call for KiT & Fotofagskole (Photography school)
Galleri KiT, 21.-23. February 2025
My first public exhibition of comics I’ve been calling Life After Stroke. They were received with kindness and interest, and I plan to pursue them more next semester.
I played with traditional ink on paper, acrylic paint on geological maps (more on this below), and ended up a different place than where I began: There were no gold frames on the walls, as was in my original proposal for the open call for artwork. Welcome to art.
Exhibit: Hjem | Home
Pop-up gallery in the shared-use cantine at school
24 February 2025
Norges Geologiske Undersøkelse (NGU | Norway’s Geological Survey) donated paper maps to KiT. This piece, Hjem | Home looks at identity associated to place. I collected written answers to the question What means home for you? Most people think home is where your people are and where you feel safe—not necessarily a particular place.
Exhibit: (c)artographic
First-year Master’s group (MFA1)
Galleri KiT, 27-30 March, 2025
Each of us used map(ping) as basis for our artworks in this group exhibition.
A theme I’m still exploring: humans as a small part of a big ecosystem. I played with words from books I read this semester. Trees made appearances, too.
Origami fish on a tree? But of course. Personal nature walks met collaboration from a course called Experts in Teams (EiT). Fish, wish, swish, miss, mess.
I made a piñata with hand-written fortunes inside (photo by Hanna Undlien). It’s still waiting to be busted open, so let’s find a time!
I travelled to Kiruna, Sweden [Kiiruna (Finish), Kieruna (Meänkieli), Giron (Northern Sámi)] for a KUNO course called Rare Earths. We visited the LKAB iron mines and the new KIN Museum of Contemporary Art, discussing the effects of extractivism.
We got a tour of old-growth forest from Per-Erik Mukka, who worked in LKAB mines and now works in forest conservation. He taught us about fungi (tickor in Swedish, (rot)kjuke in Norwegian, polypores | bracket or shelf fungi in English) and how they kill spruce trees.
Our home for a week was Abisko Scientific Research Station. We learned and explored, discussed and debated. Åsa Andersson Broms suggested I make comic installations on the lake, which I gladly did. This is one of three comics I created on frozen Torneträsk.
Read about semester three here.
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