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sari lievonen

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Mediums Used

mixed media, wood, ciment fondue,

Sari Lievonen is a versatile Finnish artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. In her visual practice she works with the mediums of sculpture, installation and drawing.

Sari Lievonen`s art practice is concerned with sensing places and experiencing environments. She is especially interested in the concept of landscape and how that influences our urbanised thinking and everyday lives. For her the ongoing question is: what is our relation to landscape and how to combine the need for the urban to that of the ?natural?? The paradox is that we are attached to the one and long for the other. Furthermore, urban life with all its technological developments tends to create illusions of us being able to control ourselves as well as our environment (s). That is of course not the case. Both of the systems are very frangible and that is one of the characteristics that bring them closer together. Thus her practice is as much about living in an urban context as it is about surviving in less urban spaces and wilderness.

Sculptures by sari lievonen

Heres a Shoulder Where Death Comes to Cry (Installation Modern sculpture)

£3,334

Surfacing (Wooden Miniature Found Objet Bonsai sculpture)

£5,000

Tonight on Earth (Abstract figurative sculptures)

£3,000

Credentials

Biography

Sari Lievonen`s Biography
Residencies:

2010 Artist in Residence at the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts/
University of Glasgow (upcoming project in spring-autumn)
SIMRES -Nordic and Baltic Artist in Residence in Reykjavik, Island /Grant funded by Kulturkontakt Nord (upcoming in August)
2008 Creative Laboratory, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
2005 Florence, Royal Scottish Academy John Kinross Scholarship
2003 Lademoen, Trondheim/Norway.
2001 Villa Karo, Grand-Popo/Republic of Benin.
2000 Cite International des Arts/ Paris, France.

Sari Lievonen`s Selected Prizes and Awards

2009 Art Trust Scotland
2009 Glasgow Visual Arts Grant Scheme
2007 Glasgow Sculpture Studios Graduate Award
2006 The Arts and Humanities Research Council/ Post-Graduate Master?s Scheme Award
2005 Royal Scottish Academy Student?s Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh. RSA Sculpture Prize.
2003 British Art Medal Society, Student competition: best medal from Scottish collage.
2002 John and Mabel Craig Bequest, Glasgow School of Art.
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 M?ntyharju: young artist?s award
1997 Biannual Exhibition of Finnish Contemporary Art in M?ntt?. The main prize for performance Personal Urban in collaboration with artist Heikki M?ntymaa.

Sari Lievonen`s Commissions

2000 Annual Summer Exhibition in Salmela Art Center in M?ntyharju:
Mobile for five dancers, a male choir and water.

Sari Lievonen`s Selected Exhibitions

2009 Blairbeich Plantation Art Project: Gartocharn/Loch Lomond
2008 Not Your Average Evening Event, McLellan Galleries/ part of Glasgow International
2008 Paradise Stories, part of Liverpool?s European City of Culture program, Liverpool/ England
2007 Scenes Secondaires, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland.
2007 Further More, MFA Degree Show, Artnews Projects/Berlin, Germany.
2007 Further More, Tramway, Glasgow.
2007 My Story - 2007 Light of Academy, Beijing
2007 Royal Scottish Academy Student?s Exhibition, Edinburgh.
2006 MFA Interim Show, Mackintsoh Gallery, Glasgow
2006 Kunstvlaai, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
2006 Royal Scottish Academy Student?s Exhibition, Edinburgh.
2005 Glasgow School of Art Degree Show
2005 Royal Scottish Academy Student?s Exhibition, Edinburgh.
2001 Art goes Kapakka.Helsinki Festival Weeks
2001 Berenice?s Hair: In Search of Northern woman Artist?s Identity. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne/Australia
2001 New Potatoes, Barents Region Young Artist?s Exhibition. Rovaniemi Art Museum.
2000 Ocean Of Cultures, Helsinki Kunsthalle.
2000 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, M?ntt?.
1997 Bra Vara! Finnish Contemporary Art. Gallery m3, Oslo/Norway

Sari Lievonen`s Selected performance art works

2008 Not Your Average Evening Event, McLellan Galleries/ part of Glasgow International
2006 Precipitite, Close Event, Glasgow.
66?33?07???and all was white in collaboration with sound artist Diana Simpson, Chandler Theatre/ The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow.
66?33?07???and all was white at Arches Live! Festival in Glasgow
2002 Gallery Be?19, Helsinki, Visual Pleasures: Red
2001 Series of performances Melting, Hammerfest/Norway
RMIT Project Space, Melbourne: Berenice?s Hair: In search of northern women artist?s identity, Transiencies I-III
New Potatoes, Exhibition of young artists in Barent?s Region, Rovaniemi Art Museum: Jano
2000 Borey Art Gallery, St Petersburg/Russia: Waiting I-VI
National Festive of Regional Traditions, Oulu/Finland; Mobile
Art Centre Salmela/Finland. Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Finnish Art; commissioned work: Mobile for six dancers, male choir and water.
The world of Oceans Helsinki Kunsthalle: Mielenmaisemia I-III
1999 Rovaniemi Art Museum/Finland; Berenike?s Hair, a four part performance-installation performed during a 93-day period of time
1998 Art Gallery Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, Helsinki: Lifestyles I in exhibition by Kalle Hamm.
Divadlo U Hasicu, Prague: Lid? v azylu, exhibition by photographer Undine Hradil.
1997 Huomenta Suomi (Finnish Television Chanel 3) : Pullon henki
Taide 103.1 -project, Oulu: Dionysoksen laulu.
1996 The Day of Visual Arts, Art Gallery Pirkko-Liisa Topelius, Helsinki: Bysantti
1995 Femina Borealis, International Women Studies Conference, Oulu University: Peili
First Summer Exhibition at H?meentila, Ruukki: Maitotytto
The Day of Visual Arts, Art Gallery Mosabacka, Helsinki: Leikkiv? ei laske p?ivi?
1994 The Garlic Night, Oulu: Vampyyri
Art?s Restaurant Sampo, Bothnia Seascape Art Workshop, Oulu: She

In collaboration with Heikki M?ntymaa
1997 Oulun privat, Oulu; Unelmia I-II; Muistoja
Pori Art Museum: Unelmia
Biannual Exhibition of Finnish Contemporary Art, M?ntt?: exhibition opening
Oulu Art Museum, Kaiken takana on taide
Art Gallery Jangva, Helsinki: Virtaus
Kellokosken Juhantalo, Likop?iv?: Esipesu: Virtaus.

Public Acquisitions
Sari Lievonen`s Acquisitions Royal Scottish Academy Private collections in UK and Finland.

Categories

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