Sari Lievonen

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Two part installation in mixed media. Dimensions variable.

There’s a Land Where the Sun Has Banished the Water, 2007
The stone on which the person is sitting has been warmed up to reach +40 Celsius degrees.

Here’s a Shoulder Where Death Comes to Cry, 2007
There is a drop of water every 5 seconds from the carbiner hanging on top of the frozen stone.
When the water reaches the stone it will also freeze and form more ice onto the stone.

detail: Here’s a Shoulder Where Death Comes to Cry, 2007

detail: Here’s a Shoulder Where Death Comes to Cry, 2007

the dripping carabiner

From left to right:
Time Wrapped in Contemplation; May 2007
Time Wrapped in Contemplation; February 2007
Time Wrapped in Contemplation; March 2007
Time Wrapped in Contemplation; April 2007
ink on paper, each 128 x 154 cm.

detail: Time Wrapped in Contemplation; February 2007

Tango Embrace and Beyond, 2007
Raw Exploration: Sari Lievonen-Bennie Bartels-Alan Paterson

A three screen video installation. Documented in McLellan Galleries, Glasgow.

Ridgewalk, 2007
A fleece, latex, wood

Dimensions variable

Once upon time there was, 2006

diamater 222 cm, height of the structure 15 cm, height of the installation 165 cm, lenght of the drawing 700 cm
ink on paper, mdf

Untitled, 2008
Site-specific work on Blairbeich Plantation/Scotland
250 x 150 x 130 cm
dead tree on a bog, gold paint

Sari Lievonen

1967 born in Oulu, Finland

Lives in Glasgow, United Kingdom

Education

2007 MFA Glasgow School of Art
2005 BA (Hons) Glasgow School of Art
1996 Professional Development Degree, Theatre Academy of Finland
1996 MA, University of Oulu

Grants

2007 Glasgow Sculpture Studios Graduate Award
2006 The Arts and Humanities Research Council/ Post-Graduate
Master’s Scheme Award
2005 Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Scholarship
2001 Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Sleipnir Travel Grant
2001 Art Council of Finland, Travel Grant
2000 Annual Summer Exhibition in Salmela Art Center in Mäntyharju:
young artist’s award

Group Exhibitions

2007
Scenes Secondaires, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland.
MFA Degree Show, Artnews Projects/Berlin, Germany.
MFA Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow.
My Story - 2007 Light of Academy, Beijing
Royal Scottish Academy Student’s Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh.

2006
MFA Interim Show, Mackintsoh Gallery, Glasgow
Kunstvlaai, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Royal Scottish Academy Student’s Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh.

2005
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show
Royal Scottish Academy Student’s Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh.

2001
Art goes Kapakka.Helsinki Festival Weeks
Berenice’s Hair: In Search of Northern woman Artist’s Identity. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
New Potatoes, Barents Region Young Artist’s Exhibition. Rovaniemi Art Museum.

2000
Ocean Of Cultures, Helsinki Kunsthalle.
Three Finnish artists: Anna-Kaisa Ant-Wuorinen, Jukka Kinanen and Sari Lievonen. Borey Art Gallery, St.Petersburg/Russia.

1999
Berenice’s Hair: In Search of Northern Woman Artist’s Identity. Rovaniemi Art Museum and Espoo City Art Museum.

1997
Biannual Exhibition of Finnish Contemporary Art, Mänttä.
Bra Vara! Finnish Contemporary Art. Gallery m3, Oslo/Norway

Projects

RAW EXPLORATION is a collaboration project between myself (as a dancer/choroegrapher & visual artist), dancer Bennie Bartels and video maker Alan Paterson. Our project is framed with passion for Argentine Tango but in this project we are reaching beyond the limits of it and language based human communication.

WILDERNESS: For the past five years I have practiced walking and camping as part of my art practice. Due to that reserach many of my works relate back to experiencing landscape and expecially the issues in connection to less urban areas and the concept of wilderness.

Collections

Royal Scottish Academy
Private collections

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