Artist Statement

The relief in itself, as a format is a meeting place between the two dimensional and the three dimensional realm, and yet my sculptural endeavors took a drastic turn when I decided to address the disconnect and incorporate my more naive drawing style into my sculpting abilities. Many figures morphed into forms almost indistinguishable as human, were it not for the context that I give them amongst other figures. This process turned my figures into something more like symbols of the human form.

A symbol is simplified, stripped down to the bare essentials and touches on common denominators. In my work I strive to question ways of thinking and involve an element of the surreal.

I am fascinated with the human ability to associate and relate when reviewing abstraction. How do we read a human form from something that in reality has very few similarities to the human shape?

With a more abstract symbolic representation of the human figure I wish for more of a recognition in the emotional state of the human experience then the physical.



Education

Oslo National Academy of Art (KHiO), Master in Medium and Material Based Arts, Ceramics (2023-ongoing)

Oslo National Academy of Art (KHiO), Bachelor in Medium and Material Based Arts, Ceramics (2019-2023)

School of Visual Arts (SVA), Exchange, Fine Arts Department, (2022)

Södertörns Högskola, Kreativ wrting A (2021)

Capellagården, Ceramics (2018-2019)

Leksands Folkhögskola, Ceramics (2017-2018)

Lorenzo di Medici (LDM), Introductory to Sculpture, and Marble Stone Sculpture (2016)







 

Biography


Jenny Hamrell was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996.

Jenny is currently enrolled in the Master program of medium and material based arts, with a focus in ceramics at KHiO.

At seventeen she begun taking evening classes in ceramics at Folkuniversitet in Stockholm.

During the fall of 2016 Jenny studied introductory to sculpture and marble stone sculpture at Lorenzo di Medici (LDM), in Florence Italy.

She went on to study ceramics at Leksands Folkhögskola (2017-2018), in Leksand, Sweden, followed by a year of ceramics at Capellagården (2018-2019), Öland, Sweden.

In 2019 Jenny began her bachelor degree in ceramics at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), Oslo, Norway and in the spring of 2022 she went on to have an exchange to the fine arts department at the School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.

In the spring of 2023 Jenny graduated form KHiOs bachelor program in ceramics.
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