Louise Nippierd
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Louise Nippierd (16/01/1962) is a British-Norwegian metal-and jewellery artist, living in Oslo, Norway.
Biografi:
Louise Nippierd was born and raised in England and came to Norway with her Norwegian journalist mother and English father in 1967. Her father was a commander in the Royal Navy and was on a 3-year contract with Nato in Bærum. The first two years she attended St. George's British School in Bærum, while her three siblings continued on different boarding schools in England. In 1969 the family decided to stay in Norway, and she began to Smestad Primary School in Oslo. After college she educated and worked in textiles before she began at the The National College of Arts and Design, (now Oslo National Academy of the Arts) where she took a Masters degree at the Metal Department in 1996.
Nippierd has distinguished herself as an active and committed artist who has participated in several prestigious exhibitions at home and abroad, including at the major art museums in United Kingdom of Britain and the National Museum in Washington DC, USA. Nippierd often described as a socio-political artist who with her previous projects have touched on serious issues in society such as racism and eating disorders. She has been concerned with the marginalized groups in society, which has roots in her own childhood as an English speaking child in Norway.
She has received a number of government scholarships and awards including the Oslo City Cultural Award and has won first prize in Goldsmith's Association Design Competition. Her works have been purchased by several institutions such as London Contemporary Art and the Norwegian Cultural Council.
Louise Nippierd is characterized as a jewelry artist in the international first division. Jewellery has traditionally been marked purely having an aesthetic and decorative function, but Nippierd also supplies her jewellery an inherent ambiguity as carriers of a deeper message.