Iris Elva Olafsdottir
Jewellery
About Me.
Hi! I am an Icelandic Jewellery Artist based in Reykjavik
I was born in 1990 on a cold island in the north Atlantic ocean, Iceland. I am greatly influenced by the vast and divergent nature of my home country. I moved to beautiful Norway and studied Metal and Jewellery at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. I lived in Montréal Canada for two years and now live back in my hometown Reykjavik Iceland.
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I love how jewellery can tell stories and be intimate and personal. In my work I try to investigate the action of drawing within the creative process of thinking and making. The results are delicate wearable wire objects, fragile like nature itself.
Education
2014-2017
BFA
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
BFA degree in medium and Material based Art. Focusin on Metall and Jewellery Art in a sculptural sense.
2012-2014
Diploma
Reykjavik School of Visual Arts
Diploma in Ceramics. Molding, clay and related materials.
Exhibitions
2014
Coven
Kunstbanken senter for samtidskunst, Norway
2018
Athens Jewellery week
Benaki Museum
2016
Open Call
Galleri Seilduken Oslo
2016
Khio under the stairs
Pinakotheka der Moderne Munich