Joint exhibitions & Misc.

2024-27 SAQA Global Exhibition Aviary – A touring exhibition
1. Gadsden Arts Center & Museum, Florida, Sept-Dec
2023     Disappearing Landscape, FELTO Felt Museum, Soltau, Germany, Aug-Nov
2022     TORG Art Fair – with The Textile Association, Gallery Hlöduloft, Reykjavik, Oct
2021     TORG Art Fair, Gallery Hlöduloft, Reykjavik, Oct
2021     Disappearing Landscape, The Palokka Library, Jyväskylä, Finland, Sept
2020     Disappearing Landscape, Akureyri Art Museum’s summer exhibition.
2019     TORG Art Fair, Gallery Hlöduloft, Reykjavik, Oct
2017     European Art QuiltsLe Grande Finale, Goes, The Netherlands, July/Aug
2017     Northern Landscape, Jämsä, Finland, July/Aug
2014-16 European Art Quilts VIII A touring exhibition, Birmingham, England:
Museum TwentseWelle, Enschede, The Netherlands; Textilmuseum Krefeld, Germany; Museum Tuch + Technik, Neumünster, Germany; Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, England
2012–22 Wool & Sheep around the North Atlantic, A touring exhibition in Norway
2012     The Textile Association, Reykjavik, March
2011     Gallery SÍM, Berlin, Sept
2011     The Textile Association, Akureyri, July
2009     Contemporary Nordic Quilt, Rhösska museet, Gothenburg, May-Sept
2009     Þverskurður, The Textile Association, Gallery Gerdarsafn, Feb
2008-10 European Art Quilts V A touring exhibition, Birmingham, UK; Chojun Textile& Quilt Art Museum, Seoul, South-Korea; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands; Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; National Quilt Museum, Paducah, Kentucky; Textile Museum, Herning, Denmark; German Textil Museum, Krefeld, Germany
2008     Galleri Frøya, Jubilee Exhibition, West-Norway, July
2007-09 European Art Quilts IV, A touring exhibition, La Sucrière, Lyon, France; Museum of Printed Textiles, Mulhouse, France; The Dutch Textile Museum Tilburg, The Netherlands; Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; CK Media Gallery, Golden, Denver, Colorado; Textile Museum, Herning, Denmark; Textil Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary
2006     The Islands in the North-Atlantic, Copenhagen City Hall, March
2006     NAS Keflavik 3rd Annual Fine Art Show, March
2005     World Quilt Show on Tour: Ohio; New Hampshire; Pennsylvania; California.
2005     Festival of Quilts, European Art Quilt Foundation, Birmingham, August
2005     NAS Keflavik 2nd Annual Fine Art Show, June
2005     World Quilt Carneval, a part of WorldExpo in Nagoya, Japan, May
2004     The Textile Association, Gallery SÍM, Reykjavik
2003     The Icelandic Quilt, Gerduberg Culture Centre, Reykjavík
2003     World Quilt Tour, Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania & California
2003     Hungarian Blueprint, Gödöllö, Debrecen & Tiszaujvaros, Hungary,
& Val d’Argent, France
2002     Nordic Art Quilts, at The International Quilt Festival í Houston, Texas
2001     Icelandic Quilters, Reykjavík City Hall
1997     l’A.P.P.E.L. Culture Festival, Gondrin, France
1995     The Golden Chest, Laugarvatn, South-Iceland
1992     Foreign artists living in Iceland, Gallery Austurstræti 8, Reykjavík
1990     Gallery Allra handa, Akureyri
1983     Gallery Paletten, Tromsø, Norway
1983     Tromsø Art Association, Tromsø, Norway
1978     Trondheim brukskunstforening for Decorative Arts, Norway

Education

2006 & 2008    Courses in needle felting with Birgitte Kragh Hansen, Denmark
1987                A course at Myndlistaskólinn Art School, Reykjavík
1986                A course in drawing with Ingiberg Magnússon, Reykjavík
1976-78            Art studies at Elen Ofstad School, Trondheim, Norway

Miscellaneous

2023                4 works in the book Stitched Journeys with Birds,
200 artists/500 works
2018, 20 & 23  Artist residencies in Gammel have, Fyen, Denmark, September all years
2011 & 2013    An artist residency in Berlin, Germany, September both years
2013                A speaking part in the movie Metal Head
2011                An artist residency in HÖFN residency, Marseille, France April/May
2009                1 of 3 actors in a 13 television & cinema advertisement series for Thule
2009                 Translated The White Book by Einar Már Gudmundsson to Norwegian
                          in cooperation with Matthias Kristiansen, published by Cappelen-Damm
2007                An artist residency in Gammel have, Fyen, Denmark, July
1982                Christmas handicrafts in children´s TV Stundin okkar, RUV, Iceland
1979-80            A partner in the collective store Tusind Sind, Copenhagen, Denmark
1978                1. price for textile artwork in the Norwegian magazine Det Nye.
1972                Graduated as a practical nurse in Trondheim, Norway
1970                A coach and a head coach at Damenes roklubb rowing club, Trondheim
1969                Gold in The Norwegian Junior Championships in a doble scull
1967                Gold in The Norwegian Senior Championships as a coxswain in a coxed four

Has arranged courses in application and quilting in the Vestfjords and in Hafnarfjördur, and taught handicrafts in Borgarnes primary school, as well as at Reykjavik social work for seniors.

A member in SÍM, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists, The Icelandic Textile Association. and SAQA, Studio Art Quilt Associates.
A grant from the ministry of education to participate in WorldExpo, Nagoya, Japan, 2004
Travel grants from Muggur fond, 2007 and 2009.
A travel grant from the official artists’ stipend fond for an artist residency in Marseille 2011.