Verk Hrafnhildar Sigurðardóttur eru litrík og full af húmor eneinnig hárbeitt ádeila þar sem áleitið efnisval vekur uppspurningar. Mörg þeirra fjalla um stöðu konunnar í okkar vestræna þjóðfélagi og hefur hún sérstaklega beint sjónum aðstöðluðum útlitskröfum og fegurðarímynd kvenna sem er haldiðað okkur í fjölmiðlum og óspart nýtt í hvers kyns auglýsingaskyni.Í eðli sínu og efni fjalla verkin einnig um endurtekningu á samagrunnþætti handverksins, t.d. hreyfingu heklunálarinnar, sem íheild sinni skapar verkið. Beinir hún þannig sjónum að konunnisem endurtekur þetta handverk aftur og aftur af ótrúlegri þolinmæði en án sýnilegs tilgangs eða umbunar. Heiti þessa verks,sem Hrafnhildur lauk við sama ár og hún hlaut Norrænu textílverðlaunin, gefur þó fyrirheit um að heklað fiskigarnið búi yfirgöldrum og geti verið til gagns. 

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Hrafnhildur studied at the Reykjavik College of Arts and Crafts in the 1980s and later in Tennessee and Colorado in the United States. Bridging textile art and sculpture, her works take on a variety of shapes and combine formal concerns with more direct – often political – approaches. “The message is just as important to me as the aesthetics,” says Hrafnhildur. “I want to say something in my art, not just create a visual experience.” An avowed feminist, Hrafnhildur keeps women in focus in her art, the roles they play and the images society creates of them.Fossagata4, 101 R. S: 562 0051 gsm 648 6501hrafsig@hi.isNám  1998-2000 University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder Bandaríkin   1997-1998 Myndlista-og handíðaskóli Íslands Reykjavík Ísland   1995 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Maine Bandaríkin Pappírs- og bókagerð  1992 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Tennessee Bandaríkin Shibori  1982-1986 Myndlista-og handíðaskóli Íslands Reykjavík Ísland   1976-1980 Flensborgarskólinn í Hafnarfirði Hafnarfirði Ísland   1975-1986 Myndlistarskólinn í Reykjavík Reykjavík Ísland Ýmis námskeið  The Icelandic textile artists Hrafnhildur Sigurðardóttir is this year’s (2005) recipient of the Nordic Award in Textiles, a prize of some 250,000 Swedish Kroner (26,000 Euros), some thirteen years after first exhibiting in Snegla, an artist-run gallery in Reykjavik.   Hrafnhildur studied at the Reykjavik College of Arts and Crafts in the 1980s and later in Tennessee and Colorado in the United States. Bridging textile art and sculpture, her works take on a variety of shapes and combine formal concerns with more direct – often political – approaches. “The message is just as important to me as the aesthetics,” says Hrafnhildur. “I want to say something in my art, not just create a visual experience.” An avowed feminist, Hrafnhildur keeps women in focus in her art, the roles they play and the images society creates of them. In recent years, Hrafnhildur has mostly exhibited outside Iceland and this year her art can be seen in Chicago, Florida, California and Helsingfors – next year will exhibit in Quito in Equador. She will be accepting her award in a ceremony at the opening of an exhibition in the Textile Museum and Culture House in Borås in October.

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