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Åse Vikse (b. 1981) lives and works in Western Norway.

She holds an MA in Fine Art (Printmaking) from Middlesex University, London,

and a BA (Hons) in Communication Design (Illustration) from Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

Vikse refers to herself as a wandering artist and her work is research-based

with a focus on a process-led practice. As a printmaker, she works both with traditional techniques such as Woodcut, as well as more contemporary Monoprints.

The latter often take the shapes of Artist's Maps which manifest themselves when the artwork and the artist absorb the surroundings together.

Vikse is interested in terms such as Arte Povera and Conceptualism, and gravitates towards themes such as place, found objects and the already existing element.

She often seeks to interpret the misplaced, to convey the story of the forgotten,

the silent, or the seemingly coincidental encounter that binds us together.

 

Vikse strives to source the material she uses and the process of developing these

as environmentally sustainable as possible.

about
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2021–2022 MASTER OF ARTS with Distinction, Fine Art (Printmaking), Middlesex University, London, UK

2017–2020 BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONOURS, Communication Design: Illustration, Gray’s School of Art Aberdeen, UK

2004–2006 Grafisk Design, Høyskolen Kristiania/Kristiania University College, Bergen, NO

SOLO

2024      Ég er þetta hús, ArtsIceland Artist Residency, Edinborgarhúsið, Ísafjörður, ICE

2023      å på K 2.0, KFUK-Hjemmet/The Norwegian YWCA, London, UK

2022      å på K, KFUK-Hjemmet/The Norwegian YWCA, London, UK

2021      part of: SubPlot Folkestone Fringe, Oxfam Books & Music, Folkestone, UK

GROUP

2024(-25)   Vinter Marked, Kiosken Studio, Bergen, NO

 

2024      Off the wall and off the table 2024, Galleri Salhus, Tekstilindustrimuseet Salhus, NO

2024      Open Summer Exhibition 2024, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK

2024      Endless Forms, Most Beautiful, Members' Exhibition, Northern Print, Newcastle, UK

2024      YSJUAA2A2024, End of Artist Residency Exhibition, York St John University, York, UK

2024      Northumberland Now, Woodhorn Museum, Ashington, UK

2023      Gathering, Northern Print, Newcastle, UK

2023      Pop-up Home • Hoem, The Vessel, York St John University, York, UK

2023      Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity 2.0, Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge, UK

2023      Northern Summer Exhibition, Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle, UK

2023      Nye medlemmer, Norske Grafikere/The Association of Norwegian Printmakers, Oslo, NO

2023      One and Another, Northern Print, Newcastle, UK

2023      Inspirational Women Artists, GHT/A Space Arts, Southampton, UK

2022-23   These are Our Treasures, (selected object/tresure) Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK

2022-23   Gallagher & Turner’s Open Exhibition, Gallagher & Turner, Newcastle, UK

2022      Pop-up Exhibition, Sjømannskirken Aberdeen, UK

2022      Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity, part of IMPACT 12 International Printmaking Conference, Bristol, UK
2022      Ossuary, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2022      Mind - be here, present/be here now, Kingshill House, Gloucestershire, UK


2021–22   Uig Open 2021/22, [Online], Hulabhaig, Outer Hebrides, UK

2021      #WalkCreate Gallery, [Online], University of Glasgow et al.
2021      Wish I Was There, touring: London Waterloo Station, Reading Station,

          Liverpool Lime Station, Leeds Station, Glasgow Central Station, all UK


2020–21   Teesside Print Prize 20, Middlesbrough, UK
2020      The Resilient Self II, Espacio Gallery, London, UK

2020      Uig Open 2020: Re-imagined, [Online], Hulabhaig, Uig, Outer Hebrides, UK

 

GRANTS

Vestland Fylkeskommune Kunstnarstipend 2024/ Vestland County Council's Artist grant 2024

BOARDS

MEMBERSHIP

The Association of Norwegian Printmakers/ Norske Grafikere
The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists/ Norske Billedkunstnere

Harding Puls (The artists' organisation of Hardanger)
Northern Print, Newcastle, UK

Bildende Kunstneres Forening Hordaland

RESIDENCIES
2024(Sept) ArtsIceland Residency, Ísafjörður, Iceland

2023-24    AA2A Artist Residency, York St John University, York, UK

PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS
2024      Masterclass, as part of Artist in Residence, York St John University, UK

2022-24   Demonstrations/Workshops, Northern Print, Newcastle, UK

2021      Presentation, 'The Matter of Circulation' student research conference, Folkestone, UK
 


COURSES/WORKSHOPS

2024      Multi Process: Paper Making and 3D Print w/Susan Wright, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, UK

2023      Mokuhanga Printing w/Lucy May Schofield, Northern Print, Newcastle, UK

2023      Wild Colour: Natural Dyeing workshop w/Katie Pollard, Figures that Sway, Tynemouth, UK

2019      Woodcut Bootcamp w/Tom Huck, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK
2019      Mokuhanga Printing w/Michael Waight, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK
2018      Risograph Workshop, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK

2018      Etching Workshop w/Michael Waight, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK

2016–2017 Printmaking Intermediate w/Lyndsey Gibb, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, UK

2015–2016 Printmaking Foundation w/Lyndsey Gibb, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, UK

2015–2016 Life Drawing Intermediate w/Rebecca Westguard, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, UK
2003      Oil Painting w/Jarl-Hugo Låstad, Folkeuniversitetet, Bergen, NO

portfolio

ég er þetta hús

Solo exhib., Edinborgarhúsið

Ísafjörður, Iceland
26/9 – 29/9/2024

project title: mapping Ísa

AiR ArtsIceland Ísafjörður

September 2024

Photos: Mitchell van Eijk

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ég er þetta hús

project title: mapping Anna-Eva

2024-ongoing

Image credit:

Clare Bowes, Amy D’Agorne, Å. Vikse

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Artist's map

End of residency* show

Group exhibition, York St John University, York, UK
20/6 – 27/6/2024

*AA2A AiR at York St John University,

the Academic year 2023-24

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the Artist's map during development

on the site of Anna-Eva Bergman's studio in Antibes,

the south of France. March 2024

work in progress: rot zweimal

Artist's maps

2024-ongoing

Sites: Lofthus, Ullensvang, Norway

       Villa Hartung Bergman, Antibes, France

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project title:

mapping Northumberland 2022-24

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Image credit:

Clare Bowes, Amy D’Agorne, Norske Grafikere

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Artist's maps low & cygnus

End of residency* show

Group exhibition, York St John University, York, UK
20/6 – 27/6/2024

*AA2A AiR at York St John University,

the Academic year 2023-24

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Artist's maps aln & alna

Nye medlemmer* exhibition

Group exhibition, Galleri Norske Grafikere, Oslo, NO
6/7 – 12/8/2023

*the New members of the Society of Norwegian Printmakers'

annual group show

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'But all those overlapping, curving shapes of the tide, as it comes up and turns round and goes back

- just endlessly fascinating.

And it will never be the same again.

Every single unique, every single way, every single breaking of the sea on the rocks has never happened again exactly like that and has never happened before.'

Bridget Riley, 2021

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more on this project here

mapping northumberland

artist's maps

2021-ongoing

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angst

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earth day walk

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Henrietta

henrietta barnett, artist's map

coastal map

'this bandstand'

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modern nature I, II, III & IIII

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Vimeo:

mapping jarman

modern nature

Prospect Cottage:

in search of place

D, R, S & C

technique: monotype, frottage print and ink applied with a brayer

created: 2021

size: 56 X 76 cm x 4

The quadriptych explores memorialisation and how we process memories, in this case, the memory of place with all its past and present movements. The four artist’s maps were created in response to walks in the landscape I once inhabited, on the western coast of Norway.
As seen in many of my maps, I am the line that moves across the surface of the folded paper and with these four walks, in particular, the return walk was equally important.

I documented surfaces connected to each of the map’s themes by rubbing and therefore, transferring their texture to the maps. The structure of e.g. an old cairn, a cholera graveyard and the ruin of what once was a home, all transferred into ghost prints. Carefully considered was also the reason why I can create this, and any artwork, as I was able to return. In commemoration of those who never returned.

Photo: Clare Bowes

Vimeo:

shipwreck walk

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'When I  face the horizons, a feeling of desire rises up in me. A desire, but for what? I do not know. It lives in me, I often feel it, but I cannot describe it. The horizon is the limit of the human experience we all share; a limit that I try to go beyond, an experience that I try to enlarge…'

(Bergman, 1983)

artist's maps
MA project

MA project

2021

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's' (2021)

The theme of this specific map was shipwrecks along the part of the North Sea route which is located in Sveio, where I am from. Therefore, I did research on the 'Sleipner' shipwreck, the story of Magnus Eriksson's wreck with 'Mariabollen' – which is connected to 'Kongsvarden' the king's cairn – and 'DS Thor' which sank outside of Lyngholm. Each mapping process is never quite the same, but the common denominator is that I walk the specific landscape while I track my movements digitally. The red line in S is my movement, with the starting point being Ryvarden Lighthouse and further north towards Lyngholm. I both followed and did not follow the trail, and let the landscape lead the way rather than being a leader for the route. I documented the hard surfaces of stones and hills by letting a white pencil contour the beautiful structures without leaving any colours. Prior to the walk, I had coated the maps with layers of blue, each of the four maps with its dedicated shade: prussian, cyan, phthalo and ultramarine. 'S' is phthalo. The coating process involved a brayer, a printmaker's tool used for rolling out ink, typically on a glass plate in order to ink up e.g. a relief print block. In this process, I rolled directly onto the large Arches printmaking paper. Line by line, layer by layer, slowly building the horizon – the seascape.

I finalised the maps in London. By adding the red line on top of the blue and the white, they are reunited – the walk, the view and  the landscape.

'S' has been exhibited as seen here as a quadriptych at the MA show, and at my solo show at KFUK-hjemmet – both in London – and alone at Kingshill house in the Cotswolds.

images above: W. Gillingham-Sutton

images below: Å. Vikse

BA project
Book Covers, edvard hoem

BA Honours project

2020

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My BA major project (Honours project)

was a series of prints inspired by the stories told by Norwegian author Edvard Hoem. Through five books we journey with his ancestors through the landscape of Romsdalen and over to the new world, the prairies of America and Canada where they seek a better life.

These stories became of great importance to me,

after I had left Norway for Scotland in 2015.

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press

press

Bæjarins Besta

On the occasion of my solo exhibition

'ég er þetta hús', Icelandic regional newspaper BB published this announcement.

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Norwegian British Chamber of Commerce
On the occasion of my first solo exhibition 'å på K', NBCC published an interview with me. Read it here or click the images to enlarge.

Thank you Renate at NBCC!

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Vestavind

In their Advent edition, local newspaper for Sveio published an article about me and my art,

'Living the artist's life in England'.

I have added a translated English version here.

Thank you Thomas at Vestavind!

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Based in Hardanger, Norway

email: aasevikse@yahoo.no

instagram @asevikse

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