Past program

Hello and Goodbye – Tinna Guðmundsdóttir

Hello and Goodbye – Tinna Guðmundsdóttir

July 3 – August 16, West Wall Gallery, Skaftfell Bistro. Opening times: Wed-Sun 12:00-17:00. The photo series Hello and Goodbye is a documentation of the short period of family life. Every ten years female members of the artist’s family, consisting of her mother and her three sisters, are photographed in a group photo with all current family members living in each household. Families are ever changing units and the series portrays the changes that happen between each photo shoot. Individuals and pets are both added to the unit and leave the unit, children are born and grow up.  The first […]

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Quarantine drawings

Quarantine drawings

West Wall gallery, Skaftfell Bistro, June 17 – July 1, 2020. For many years visitors to the Skaftfell bistro have been invited to make drawings and writings on stacks of A4 paper, and leave them in the bistro. Once a year all these “bistro drawings” are collected and bound into a book. During the recent Covid19-related time of isolation and restricted movement, Skaftfell invited everyone in Seyðisfjörður and beyond to submit their “quarantine drawings”. These drawings were thought to become a record of thoughts, feelings and creative responses during this period of uncertainty that we all had to experience. Now that […]

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