Hanna Marno
Hanna Marno (b. 1981) is a sculptor and environmental artist who works and lives in Siikainen, Northern Satakunta. During the last few years of living in a small village in the countryside of Finland, her diet has consisted of larch dust during breakfast and lunch. After a hard day of work, her dinner is more versatile: a portion of chalk for the muscles, aspen for the blood and titanium oxide so she could see better. For supper she enjoys a cup of rye varnish and graphite porridge, because it gives the night a shelter. Dog friend Mauri supervises the portions behind his bowl of delicatessen.
In her art, Marno observes landscapes, communities, power structures, their materialities and multilangualisms proposing clashes of different environments. What is the glue that binds us after all, she asks.
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Riikka Puronen
Riikka Puronen’s (b.1968) artistic work is characterised by a wealth of different materials and a variety of scales. In recent years, she has become familiar with the use of 3D techniques. Puronen graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1996 and since 1992 she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Finland and abroad and held twenty solo exhibitions. Puronen’s public sculpture Compass and Stars was completed in Kalasatama by commission from the Helsinki Art Museum HAM in 2018. In addition to her own artistic work, Riikka Puronen has worked as a lecturer in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in 2007–2017. She received the Vuoden nuori Suomi prize in 1997 and the William Thuring Award in 2010. Puronen’s works are in the collections of the Finnish State Art Commission and Jenny and Antti Wihuris Foundation, among others.
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