Aug 31
2023 Installation of sculptures (wood, fabric, wadding, plaster, silicone) and ready-made objects (furniture). Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Figure is human sized. Art association ITU’s 2022 summer exhibition had ARCHEOLOGICAL THINKING as its theme. I created a room installation depicting a scene of a humanoid figure in a kind of self-study lab/room, …
Mar 29
2020 Installation (wood, used tarp, recycled fabric, slip casting, looping video (05:11), looping soundscape (07:14).207 x 200 x 300 cm. Totalitarianism hasn’t disappeared from the face of the Earth. I wasn’t left behind when humanity moved on to this new millennia. It doesn’t make its appearances only on far-away, strange lands. In a totalitarian system …
Jan 17
2020 Recycled fabrics, wadding and clothing.Life-sized, with four set of clothing changed during the exhibition. Part of “Olohuone / Living Room” installation in collaboration with Elina Lahdenperä. Exhibited at:HIOSTAMO 1, Köysiratagalleria, Turku “As an Animal” depicts a fabric sculpture of an unspecified urban animal (partly dog, partly hare, partly something else) who has entered a …
Nov 18
2019 Recycled water pipes, string.100 x 100 cm, 130 x 130 cm “Himmeli” is a traditional Finnish mobile decoration made from straws. It can be simple or rather complex, but usually utilizes basic diamond shapes. Himmelis are often associated with Christmas decocations. In my 2019 work Himmeli I played with size and made simple himmelis …
Jul 24
2019 Wood.65 x 65 x 150 cm. Why is it, that it always tend to be small men who are most eager to reach for the highest of seats? Yes, those seats they are most unsuitable to sit on. Exhibited at:Skulptür, Köysiratagalleria, TurkuStockfors Art Fair, Stockfors, Pyhtää
Jul 18
2019 Recycled water pipes, string, lights, motion sensor.Installation size 230 x 300 x 220 cm. Himmel is German for Heaven, also a word play with the Finnish term “himmeli” translating into a hanging straw ornament. For art association ITU’s 2019 summer exhibition called “Lovers of * the Milky Way” I made two large-scale versions of …
Jul 17
2019 Recycled fabric, wadding and wood.Life sized. The Denialist is the current ways of humanity personified. They are hungrily eating, not facing the fact about how this is also destroying themself. Exhibited at:Skulptür, Köysiratagalleria, TurkuStockfors Art Fair, Stockfors, Pyhtää
Jun 18
2019 Plaster, acrylic paint, glitter glue, sand.Variable size, exhibited as ~ 5-40 x 220 cm. Footprints on sand. Somebody had walked here, barefoot, on tip-toes. It was so long ago, that the footprints have turned to stone and have the bright colours of happy memories. Exhibited at Skulptür, Köysiratagalleria, Turku.
May 24
2019 Bronze, apple tree roots, plaster.51 x 45 x 40 cm I cast my dear departed grandparents’ false teeth in bronze and arranged them according to a portrait of my grandparents smiling, faces close, on the roots of a felled apple tree.
May 17
2019 Burlap, dirt, ryegrass, vat.Life-sized (toddler). Originally a course project to study sculptures in four dimension – space and time – Dirt Boi turned into a kind of pet while sitting on a busy hallway. Later on, Dirt Boi moved to the countryside to live with us and lived through the summer. Being made from …
Sep 24
2018 Stickers on outside fixture.~ 60 x 200 cm. In this course project for Time and Space Art course I transformed the art school’s outside table and chairs into a brutalist suburb with six high rises and a water tower. For a suburb, it was rather small – but perhaps this example of model housing …
Aug 24
2018 Plastic, tape, monitor, video.60 x 60 x 130 cm, 4 min looping video. The sculptural installation features a transparent female figure apparently trying to escape from an out-dated computer monitor. There’s a looping video playing, titled TV-Dinner, with static and short clips of a classic horror movie. Exhibited at ILMIÖ festival, Turku, 2018 and at …
Apr 17
2017 Wood, discarded charger and circuit board. ~ 50-300 x 135 cm. Built to be a sculpture with movable parts, The Cephalo Poid has turned into a movie star. Featured in: stop motion animation “The Cephalo Poid”, screened in 2021 at Lyhärit Goes And Fest, Lahti.
Mar 18
2018 Video installation “Meditation: Eternity”.Box 20 x 20 cm, 4 min looping video. Infinity and eternity are truly things to meditate upon. Exhibited in 2018 at DIMENSIO, Köysiratagalleria, Turku andin 2025 at GUARDIANS OF THE SECRET, Voipaala, Valkeakoski.
Oct 31
2017 Silk paper, sticky tape, egg shells, light.Life-sized heads and figure. Exhibited at:Turku University of Applied Sciences’ Arts Academy Library, Turku Using delicate materials, “Fragiles” studied the fragility of human nature.
Aug 17
a.k.a. 3rd Wave 2011 / 2012 High fire glazed ceramic.30-40 x 450 cm Exhibited at:ART HÄME 11, Hämeenlinna (2011)ITU & Idolit, Taidemakasiini ITU, Humppila (2012)VESI, Kuusiston Taidekartano, Kaarina (2013)
Jul 24
Write-up drew inspiration from William S. Burroughs’s and Brion Gysin’s artistic technique, cut-up.
Jul 24
2012 High fire ceramic.90 x 200 cm. Inspired by Brion Gysin’s letters/words & squares works. Exhibited at:ITU & Idols, Taidemakasiini ITU, Humppila
Jul 15
2012 High fire ceramic. 30 x 40 cm. “Third Mind is a collective form of being which could be described as an apparently effortless absorption of ideas, feelings, attitudes, etc., as if by biological osmosis.” Exhibited at: ITU & Idolit, Taidemakasiini ITU, Humppila Available, 200 €
Dec 28
2008 Raku fired paper clay.44 cm across. The Black Sun shines metallic on a slightly wavy raku fired plate. Exhibited December 2009 at Joulukalenteri (Christmas Calendar), Taidemakasiini ITU, Humppila Available, contact for price.
