Hildur Bjarnadóttir (IS)

In her work Hildur Bjarnadóttir investigates issues of belonging, ecology, place and cohabitation, working with animals and plants on a small piece of land in the south of Iceland where she lives and works. The plants are imprinted with information – by way of the soil and air – from the ecological and social systems they exist within. Bjarnadóttir makes this information visible by extracting colour from the plants which she uses to dye wool thread and silk fabric to make woven paintings and large-scale silk installations.

Hildur Bjarnadóttir (b. 1969) lives and works between Iceland and Norway. Recent solo exhibitions include: 2019; Symbiosis at Soft Galleri in Oslo, 2017; Cohabitation at Trondelag Senter for Samtidskunst, 2016; Ecosystem of Color at Reykjavík Art Museum, Kjarvalsstaðir, Colors of Belonging in Bergen Kjøtt, Norway, 2015; Subjective Systems in Kunstnerforbundet Oslo and Mapping a Piece of Land in Hverfisgallerí, and 2014; Flora of Weeds in Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík.