Tuokioita I-VI ⏐ Women’s Hospital HUS

  • 'Tuokioita I-VI’ (meaning moments in english) is a multi-part ensemble of ceramic reliefs. The works are located in the elevator lobbies on the 1st-6th floors of the Women's Hospital A-wing of Helsinki University Hospital, on the corridor walls next to them, and in five procedure rooms. The ensembles consist of different shapes and textures forming detailed, illustration-like three-dimensional ceramic murals. The works have been made as an invited artist.

Marquis

  • A series of numbered handmade ceramic murals

    This mural work is an exploration to the world of visually strong outcome; reflecting metallic surface combined together with vivid strong colours and playful, strong forms. It's an intriguing combination of old soul, 70s and art deco vibes still being harmonious and classy.

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Sculptural Series

  • Sculptural Series is a an on-going collection of decorative porcelain jars. They are my personal playground for experiments, a platform for studies of materials, forms and techniques.


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Wall Sculpture

  • ‘Wall Sculpture’ is a numbered and signed collection of unique ready-made ceramic wall pieces.

    This collection is my on-going personal exploration with different glazes, surfaces, decorations and techniques. By testing and playing, I seek to find new visual and haptic approaches tothe outcome. Finding contrasts play significant role in each numbered piece, again.

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Pumpa & Pomelo

  • Pumpa and Pomelo are objects inbetween art and design as they are sculptures but also decorative mini vases for single flowers and small arrangements.

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Tell Me Time -collection

  • A collection of unique, handmade ceramic clocks with sculptural and tactile approach. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and made by combining various handmaking techniques.


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Animal Series by LEM

  • LEM is an art group formed in a petrol station in Finland in 2008 while the members were enjoying a pit stop on a high way on their way to Helsinki. They had met previously while chopping wood on a night watch for a wood-firing kiln at Fiskars. The group consists of three designers, Saara Kaatra, Laura Itkonen and Lotta Veromaa who has all studied at MA Applied Art and Design. The name LEM derives from the second names of its members and was mutually agreed upon as the members like the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.

  • ‘Animal Series’ is the first project by LEM and it was sponsored by Iittala Group. ‘Animal Series’ tells stories through animals in everyday ceramic tableware, creating new life and meaning for everyday common objects.

    “Sweet fairytale scenery and figures like the unicorns, pink rabbits and canary birds are in contrast with the macabre themes of blood, death and loneliness.” -Asta Boman, Senior Advisor at Ornamo Art and Design Finland.

    The vessels are made using old Iittala moulds that are out of production: bowls, cups and plates that have simplistic shapes, familiar to Iittala Groups tableware. By placing animals in the vessels to tell a story, the group is triggering a new life and meaning to these objects. Telling stories that change depending on the viewer, in the same time questioning and stretching the limits of mass production. The easily approachable animal figures create their own private miniature worlds into each vessel that can be endearing, terrifying, humoristic or twisted depending on the viewer. LEM leaves the stories to the viewers imagination; what stories and meanings do they find behind the humour or macabre?

A ceramic logo for Lundia

  • A custom-made ceramic logo for Finnish traditional furniture brand Lundia. Handmade of porcelain and Finnish red earthenware parts. A colorful, haptic multi-part entity forms the name of the company on the wall of their flagship store and showroom.

    Client: Lundia Oy

    Year: 2019

    Location: Lundia Flagship Store & Showroom, Fredrikinkatu 45, Helsinki

Folks Hotel Konepaja -project

  • Custom-made ceramic murals to 47 hotel rooms.

    In this boutique hotel in Helsinki you can sleep under my ceramic murals in the suite, mini suites, superior+ and superior rooms.

    Client: Folks Hotel Konepaja Vallila

    Interior architecture: Pinto Design

    Year: 2020-2021

View 1

  • ‘View I’

    2022

    porcelain, stoneware, Finnish red earthenware

    Size: 160 cm x 80 cm x 5 cm

    ‘View I’ was part of With the Naked Eye -group exhibition held in Voipaala Art Centre in Summer 2022. The core of the material-based contemporary art exhibition was the encounter between man and nature. In my ceramic mural, I have combined elements and surfaces of man-made architecture and its landscape with nature's free, organic and uncontrolled environment. The work 'View I' is one perspective of what the view created by these elements is like.

    The exhibition was organized by two associations, Textile Artist TEXO and Artist O, presenting the best of Finnish textile art, ceramic art and installation art from more than thirty artists. Curated by Anna-Kaisa Haanaho, Jaana Woll, Kaisu Koivisto and Teemu Salonen.

Restaurant Juuri -project

  • Custom-made plates for awarded Restaurant Juuri, Helsinki. Project executed in a collaboration with ceramicist Heidi Aulikki Puumalainen.

    Locality, freshness and authenticity are the cornerstones of Ravintola Juuri's kitchen philosophy and through these principles we set out to design plates suitable for the restaurant . The basic idea behind the plates was to emphasize the feel and visuals of a material and techniques. Each plate is handmade and this is especially evident in the glazing, which is unique in each plate. The plates were also locally produced, as our shared studio at the time was located within walking distance of the restaurant.

    Client: Restaurant Juuri, Helsinki

    Team: Laura Itkonen, Heidi Puumalainen, restaurateur Ilja Björs and chef Jukka Nykänen

    Year: 2017

    (photo by Pekka Kastari)

Ryijy

  • Handmade ceramic mural

    ‘Ryijy’ means traditional woven wall rug which is a decorative art form unique to Finland. Geometric shapes were, in addition to floral and human figures, a popular subject in them in the late 19th century. ‘Ryijy’ ceramic mural is especially inspired from the geometrical shapes of the traditional ryijy rugs.

    The whole consists of five forms of different shapes that fit in many ways to each other transforming into different works of art. Creations made of it are perfect to enrich both private and public spaces in indoors and outdoors.

  • Ryijy can be modified to customers need in size and color. Please contact me by email for more information.