artist
Margrét H Blöndal
- Island, 1970
Margrét H. Blöndal is one of Iceland’s foremost contemporary artists. She has become known for her unassuming yet ingenious sculptures of discarded materials like fabric pieces, plastic, junk and rubber waste. Her sensitive, minimalist drawings in watercolour and pencil are equally important. Snapshots of simple daily events often serve as her starting point. A detail which the camera has captured may activate a memory which is developed in turn in a drawing. Blöndal sometimes applies olive oil to the paper and allows it to soak into the sheet to form enigmatic patterns. She uses artistic palettes and leaves much of the background unprocessed. The content involves fundamental questions, such as life’s vulnerability, absence and presence, and the poetic nature of mundane things. Margrét H. Blöndal studied at Iceland Academy of the Arts and the Mason Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University, USA.
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