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svein rosseland, september 2011

about svein rosseland

Svein Rosseland (b. 1957) is a Norwegian cross-over artist working with photographic art, short film, sound, performance and poetry. After finishing his fine art studies at Aarhus Academy of Art, Denmark, he converted to graphic design. Following years as a graphic designer, he has since 2007 returned to his passion and concentrates on creating art full time. His art is internationaly awarded.

For Rosseland, creating art is an existential issue. To live is to create. When creating art he consider himself as an explorer in a layered land of feelings, experiences, shapes, light and color. He is not shooting a model’s or person’s exterior, but the expression of their interior self. Rosseland’s art is about meetings.

The main focus at the moment, is the soul and beauty of mature women expressed by lived life. Rosseland visually explores their complex and fascinating universe of sensuality, mystique, depth, thoughtfulness, heartiness, strength, and vulnerability. His art will not give you answers, but will hopefully generate questions…

international judged exhibitions

  • Pollux Awards, Buenos Aires, January 2012
  • Gagliardi Gallery, London, UK May, 2011
  • Museo d’Arte di Chianciano Terme, Italy September, 2010

norwegian gallery solo exhibitions

  • Galleri Syningen, Aal Kulturhus, Norway March 2010
  • Galleri Graff, Askim, Norway February 2009

honors and awards

  • Chianciano International Award for Digital and Photographic Art 2010. Svein Rosseland was one of 37 artists from a group of 100 judged exhibition finalists awarded and invited to return as an exhibitor for the Chinaciano exhibition in Gagliardi Gallery, London, 2011.
  • Pollux Awards’ Best of Month April 2011. Best of the Month of each of the six contests, the prize winners of the Pollux Awards, and the first prizes of each category in the final selection of the Pollux Awards will be invited to exhibit their prize-winning images on January, 2012 at The Palais de Glace in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Pollux Award May Contest 2011 1st Prize in the Fine Art cathegory with the picture “Scream”.
  • Pollux Award June Contest 2011 1st Prize in the Fine Art cathegory.

works in museums

Museo d’Arte di Chianciano Terme, Italy. Svein Rosseland was represented on Chianciano International Award for Digital and Photographic Art 2010 with 3 images which are now included in the museum’s permanent exhibition collection:

1. Fear 
2. Depth 
3. Fragments of A Woman’s Soul No 1

art relevant education

  • Aarhus Academy of Art, Denmark, Fine Art, 1982-85 (3,5 yrs)
  • Morten Krogvold Workshop 2008 Level 2, 1 week photography and visual communication
  • Morten Krogvold Workshop Level 1 2007, 1 week, photography and visual communication
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