Imperfect in their perfection
In an old network workshop on the Eyrinn in Akureyri, which is now a clay workshop, the artist is working on the artist Margrét Jónsdóttir. She has a forty -year career and to celebrate that phase has now opened an overview exhibition of her works in the Akureyri Art Museum. A reporter made his way north to Akureyri and met Margrét who offered coffee in the garden in gentle weather.
« It’s been forty years since I came out of my studies in Denmark where I was six years in school. On returning home, I opened a workshop in a garage with my grandmother but my parents lived next door and therefore a great deal of contact with the family, » says Margrét, who is raised in Akureyri.
« I was very young when I knew I wanted to work on something creative and couldn’t wait to go abroad but I went eighteen years old. I drew a lot from a young age and often it was tableware and all kinds.
« Dad was a technologist and drew a lot of houses and worked on all kinds of artistic creation, but my mom took care of this big home. lying, ”says Margrét.
« I decided immediately when I started with my own workshop to focus on it instead of being in another work along the art. This was partly where I got free housing from my grandmother and she was tolerant this love because the clay comes with a lot of dust and often a white step up the stairs and out on the street.
« It was wonderful to be with her and we were very much. Sometimes she came down to wash up or came to me with lum.
All the guard on the way
« I’ve been so lucky that I’ve always found this amazing fun and I’m healthy, because it’s hard work. It’s all heavy around this;
« I immediately started doing things but have been doing a variety of works during this long process. On the occasion of the overview exhibition, the Akureyri Art Museum advertised for a loan and I am very proud and grateful to what people did in this request. They have forgotten.
White and asymmetrical forms
How is your personal style in the clay art?
« Before I worked a lot with colors and silver and gold but in recent times I have worked more with black and white glaze. Incomplete in their perfection.
Are you always alone in the studio?
« No, I am not. My sister Thordis is often with me and helps me with various things. She has been in my hand at the clay workshop for many years, which is invaluable. »
Margrét works for many other than utilities, but she has done wall works, sculptures, art decorations, specially designed tiles and baptismal fonts, to name a few. Asked if she considers her work art or crafts, she replies:
« This is art. I put everything in every single thing and every thing is unique, » says Margrét, adding that clay can be used for so much.
This artifact is designed for the show in Sigurh Heights.
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This is my work of life
Now you have a big show that spans the whole career, are you going to sit in a sacred stone?
« No, I don’t think so. I like to work and when I take a vacation I always look forward to going to the clay workshop and starting again. It’s a lot of good fortune, » she says.
« Two days after the opening in the Akureyri Art Museum, I open another exhibition of new works on Sigurh heights, the house of Matthías Jochumsson. Entered the heights and perceives the atmosphere of the house.
« I opened June 5th in the Akureyri Art Museum and June seventh on Sigurh heights, so it is quite enough to do these days, » says Margrét.
« The overview exhibition is an installation but not a show where you can admire one thing and one thing. This will be an experience, one whole; one life’s work. This is my work of life, but I still haven’t stopped. »
