Articles by: Pari Stave

Welcoming Victoria!

Welcoming Victoria!

Skaftfell warmly welcomes Victoria Torboli, a Finnish art student at the School of Fine Arts of Satakunta University of Applied Sciences, in Kankaanpää, Finland who has been given an Erasmus internship to work in Iceland this summer. As Skaftfell’s curatorial intern, Victoria will receive visitors in Skaftfell’s gallery and provide information about The Arctic Creatures exhibition, Skaftfell, and public artworks in Seyðisfjörður. She will also work collaboratively on workshops and summer programs.  

Ra Tack: Small Works

Ra Tack: Small Works

Ra Tack (b. 1988) is a Belgian painter and sound artist, living and working in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland. Their paintings oscillate between abstraction and representation, often rendered in oil on large canvases. This installation features recent smaller works in oil stick on paper that are more intimate in scale. Tack’s compositions are composed of lush, expressive textures and colours, and deal with themes of transition, duality, love and longing. Tack’s work has been exhibited widely, including solo and group exhibitions in London, Ghent, Berlin, New York, Copenhagen, and Marrakech. One of the leading painters working in East Iceland today, their work […]

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