Artist Statement

Jenny Hamrell (b. 1996) is a Swedish ceramic artist based in Oslo. She holds a Master’s degree in Medium and Material-Based Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). In addition, she has studied art in Italy, Sweden, and the United States.

Hamrell’s practice moves between body, thought, and form. She works with reliefs and sculptural shapes that form the foundation of her visual vocabulary. This emerged through the meeting of her two-dimensional, naïve expression and a three-dimensional, more realistic visual language. Her practice explores the possibility of communicating without words, with a particular focus on dyslexia and cognitive variation.

Her work is part of the collection of Art in the Workplace (KPA).



Education

Oslo National Academy of Art (KHiO), Master in Medium and Material Based Arts, Ceramics (2023-2025)

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.

Hamrell graduated from KHiO in 2025 with a Master in Medium and Material Based Arts, with a focus in ceramics.

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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