Ella Heidi Sand

Bio

Ella Heidi Sand, born in 1957, studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, graduating in 1984, with further studies at the State University of New York in the USA. She has participated in exhibitions both in national and international, has held several solo exhibitions and developed art for public spaces. Member of the artist collective The Archive: ARKIVET. Sand has coordinated a number of jewelry exhibitions abroad, works as an art consultant for art in public spaces and has for 7 years been the director of RAM gallery in Oslo. In the period 2006 -2013 she was engaged as a professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Oslo (KHiO)  where she was Head of the Department for Metalwork and Jewellery. 
Permanent collections include The Norwegian Council of Culture, The Royal  Ministry of Foreign Affairs, SKMU Art Museum Kristiansand, The Museum of Applied Art in Oslo, Vestlandske Museum of Applied Art in Bergen and Nordenfjeldske Museum of Applied Art in Trondheim.

Statement

A recurrent feature throughout my works is my interest in ornamental statements, where the issue lies in the interplay between patterns, surfaces and spaces. I often take as my starting point principles inherent in natural structures by recording, transforming and simplifying elements. Both in objects and in jewelry, I often plot my patterns onto basic forms that are strictly geometrical.

The works are executed in precious metals and are developed by means of the time-consuming process of sawing out the patterns by hand. I experience the working process as meditative, with the hope that this will be communicated in the visual expression.
/ Ella Heidi Sand

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