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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.

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436, 2006

436 plaster ducks, jail cell, Mad Art Gallery, St. Louis, USA
 

436 prisoners were executed in US prisons between 2000 and 2006.

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Poison, 2012

Video and collage installation, Smart Gallery, Aberdeen.

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Memento mori, 2014

Two characters painted in oil on wood. The faces are based on Ilona Niemi's children.

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My Pal, Napoleon, 2014

Collage installation, Salo Art Museum.

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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.

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Femininity, 2018 

The Monstrous Female, Tiger's Bride, Fevvers Joensuu Art Museum, Finland, 2018.
 

Loosely based on Angela Carter's fictional characters.

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Cut with the Kitchen Scissors, 2018

Installation of collages (titled after Hannah Höch), Joensuu Art Museum, Finland.

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Personae Mythologicae,
2019-2020

28 characters based on Finnish mythology (collage printed on aluminium) in front of Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, Finland.

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Personae Mythologicae,
2019-2020

28 characters based on Finnish mythology (collage printed on aluminium) in front of Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA, Finland.

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Collaboration with Kallio Brewery, 2017-

Collages on Kallio Brewery's craft beer since Art Fair Suomi in 2017 (branding by David Graham).

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The Animal in You,
2019

Pop-up portraits of people as animals (2017-2019). Heidi as a cat, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku, Finland.

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Fine and Dandy,
2019

Acrylic on board mounted on wood, 2019.

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Soul Sister,
2020

Acrylic on board mounted on wood.

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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.

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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.

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Dinner Guests,
2021

Commissioned by the City of Salo for Märynummi primary school.

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Dinner Guests,
2021

Commissioned by the City of Salo for Märynummi primary school.

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Kith & Kin,
2022

Installation of over 50 portraits based on friends, family and famous people.

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Miss E.,
2020

Detail of Kith and Kin.

Miss E. gave birth to a village idiot, had her womb removed and lost her marbles.

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