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Dear friend of Arkadia,

You are invited to an Exhibition of Works by Katherine Midgley and Kristina Ståhl on Sunday 10.3 at 4pm at Arkadia (Nervanderinkatu 11)

This is a joint exhibition by two artists who met whilst on exchange at Kuvataideakatemia.

http://www.facebook.com/events/418241108270754/

Please come along and bring a friend: there will be drinks and freshly baked bread to welcome you!

Warm regards,

Ian
www.arkadiabookshop.fi

–Entrance is free but a donation of €3 (or more!) to fund the event is suggested and would be most welcome.

An Exhibition of Works by Katherine Midgley and Kristina Ståhl

Katherine Midgley is an art student from the north of England, who studies at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Katherine’s work has an anthropological feel, with strong links to history and traditional ways of making. She has always been a collector: be it of Stone Age arrow heads, ticket stubs, or bottle tops flattened in the road. This love of the material and of objects is central to her work. She is also greatly influenced by walks through London, a city with ‘layers’ of history and a tangled mix of cultures. Her recent works show the profound effect that her stay in Helsinki has had on her practice, reflecting a mix of cultural and historical influences from both cities.

Kristina Ståhl is an art student from Örebro, Sweden, who studies at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art in Norway. She is now doing her second term as an exchange student in the painting department at Kuvataideakatemia. In her paintings, she is often in dialogue with the space that she is working in, and the light and colour tones of the space is central to her work. Details such as shadows, light changes on the wall or architectural details often becomes motifs. She is interested in subtle colour differences and often plays with the idea of the traditional landscape format.