ARTWORK
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Poison Dwarfs, 2006
Seven characters painted in oil, appr. 3 m x 3 m, Surplus Gallery, Carbondale, IL, USA
Based on the memory of a childhood friend who went missing.
436, 2006
436 plaster ducks, jail cell, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, USA
436 prisoners were executed in US prisons between 2000 and 2006.
Poison, 2012
Video and collage installation, Smart Gallery, Aberdeen.
Memento mori, 2014
Two characters painted in oil on wood. The faces are based on Ilona Niemi's children.
My Pal, Napoleon, 2014
Collage installation, Salo Art Museum.
Birthday, 2017
Video, Muu Gallery, Helsinki
"All fiction, as Balzac said, is symbolic autobiography"
Angela Carter
Loosely based on Ilona Niemi's childhood memories, darkened by the disappearance of a friend.
Femininity, 2018
The Monstrous Female, Tiger's Bride, Fevvers Joensuu Art Museum, Finland, 2018.
Loosely based on Angela Carter's fictional characters.
Cut with the Kitchen Scissors, 2018
Installation of collages (titled after Hannah Höch), Joensuu Art Museum, Finland.
Personae Mythologicae,
2019-2020
28 characters based on Finnish mythology (collage printed on aluminium) in front of Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, Finland.
Personae Mythologicae,
2019-2020
28 characters based on Finnish mythology (collage printed on aluminium) in front of Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, Finland.
Collaboration with Kallio Brewery, 2017-
Collages on Kallio Brewery's craft beer since Art Fair Suomi in 2017 (branding by David Graham).
The Animal in You,
2019
Pop-up portraits of people as animals (2017-2019). Heidi as a cat, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, Finland.
Fine and Dandy,
2019
Acrylic on board mounted on wood, 2019.
Soul Sister,
2020
Acrylic on board mounted on wood.
Disco Inferno
(Revenge of the Rebel Angels),
2019
Acrylic on MDF, 2019 (Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku Finland)
Inspired by Pieter Bruegel's Fall of the Rebel Angels and 1970s disco.
Jungle Boogie,
2021
Mixed media
A disco box along a forest path, Salo, Finland. The box had a QR code linking it to a disco song.
Dinner Guests,
2021
Commissioned by the City of Salo for Märynummi primary school.
Dinner Guests,
2021
Commissioned by the City of Salo for Märynummi primary school.
Kith & Kin,
2022
Installation of over 50 portraits based on friends, family and famous people.
Miss E.,
2020
Detail of Kith and Kin.
Miss E. gave birth to a village idiot, had her womb removed and lost her marbles.