{"id":15987,"date":"2020-04-24T12:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/?p=15987"},"modified":"2023-04-01T04:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T04:57:31","slug":"gudrun-westerlund-a-place-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/gudrun-westerlund-a-place-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"A place to be \u2013 Gudrun Westerlund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Brdtext\">Current artist in residence\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gudrunwesterlund.se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gudrun Westerlund<\/strong><\/a> (SE) introduces her latest work through a pop-up exhibition and video artist talk, set in Skaftfell\u2019s gallery, which is closed at the moment due to COVID-19. The video has been posted on Skaftfell\u2019s Instagram and Facebook pages:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=926205317831042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=926205317831042<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Brdtext\"><span lang=\"SV\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gudrunwesterlund.se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gudrun Westerlund<\/strong><\/a> is an artist based in Uppsala, Sweden. <\/span>She is most of all a painter, but also works with land-art and other art-projects. Gudrun mixes abstraction with more figurative and narrative expression. In Iceland, she has worked with ink and watercolour, and has ventured into land-art using snow and ice.\u00a0Gudrun has a deep interest in nature and landscape. It<span lang=\"SV\"> i<\/span>s present in her art, and grounded in her upbringing in northern Sweden, with a closeness to water, mountains and forests. She is interested in the contrast between nature and civili<span lang=\"SV\">zation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Frval\"><span lang=\"SV\">Gudrun has been artist in residence at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skriduklaustur.is\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Skri\u00f0uklaustur<\/strong><\/a><\/span> during March<span lang=\"SV\"> and has then come to join the Skaftfell residency program in April. The two different places in East Iceland have inspired her to continue her way of getting to know a place by walking around, looking, taking photos, sketching, thinking, depicting the landscape, at first in a realistic way, then continuing more freely with blending her own experiences and ideas with what she sees around her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Frval\"><span lang=\"SV\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gudrunwesterlund.se\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Gudrun Westerlund<\/strong><\/a> has exhibited mostly in Sweden, but also in Norway, Latvia, Finland, Germany, USA, Japan and China, and has taken part in a group show at the Nordic House in Reykjavik in 2017. She recently received a two-year grant from the Swedish <\/span>National Fund for the Art<span lang=\"SV\"> (Konstn\u00e4rsn\u00e4mnden), for 2019-2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Frval\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current artist in residence\u00a0Gudrun Westerlund (SE) introduces her latest work through a pop-up exhibition and video artist talk, set in Skaftfell\u2019s gallery, which is closed at the moment due to COVID-19. The video has been posted on Skaftfell\u2019s Instagram and Facebook pages: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=926205317831042 Gudrun Westerlund is an artist based in Uppsala, Sweden. She is most of all a painter, but also works with land-art and other art-projects. Gudrun mixes abstraction with more figurative and narrative expression. In Iceland, she has worked with ink and watercolour, and has ventured into land-art using snow and ice.\u00a0Gudrun has a deep interest in nature [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/gudrun-westerlund-a-place-to-be\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":15988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,191,151,78,233,86,264,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-en","category-artists-in-residence","category-guided-tours","category-news","category-past-exhibitions-and-events","category-pastprogram","category-residency-events-en","category-residency-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.skaftfell.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}