Ása K Jónsdóttir

Ása K Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic artist who lives and works between the UK and Iceland. She is an interdisciplinary Fine Artist who works with painting, drawing, photography and three-dimensional work. Within her research there is always a filter of interest in human behaviour and psychology. The work is often personal and somewhat political, it is a poetic space that is very open in terms of its reading. With the work she intends to open up space for discussion and questioning.

The work unfolds through an exploration of place, identity, connection and negotiation. Using everyday life and lived experience as source material. The current work covers a dreamy nostalgia of my own childhood memories of a place, yet also questions the current climate we live in and the effect of a place and one’s environment on oneself.

A particular quote from Roni Horn’s book Island Zombie prompted initial ideas for this project. The quote states

“I have always taken the weather personally. Was it Freud who said: “talking about the weather is talking about oneself?”

Within most of my work I allow nature and human behaviour to collide and mirror each other. Playful aspects of the natural world are mixed with the with the domesticity of everyday life resulting in tactile drawings and installation pieces.