Valger\u00f0ur Briem (1914\u20132002) was an artist, teacher and pioneer in the field of art education. Her life\u2019s work developed through the interplay between her own artistic practice and her teaching, with form, colour, material and visual thinking at its core. Valger\u00f0ur first exhibited publicly as an artist at the Autumn Exhibition of the Association of Icelandic Artists in 1980, at the age of sixty-six. Behind that moment lay decades of sustained work: drawings, watercolours, wax works, sketches, lettering and patterns. When Valger\u00f0ur\u2019s family donated approximately 1,640 works on paper to Ger\u00f0arsafn in 2006, the true scope of her life\u2019s work became fully visible for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teaching was an independent and essential part of Valger\u00f0ur\u2019s life\u2019s work, and her influence continued through the many students she guided. It is a legacy that does not manifest itself in a shared style, but in divergent paths and working methods, and in the courage to trust one\u2019s own vision. In the exhibition works by artists she influenced can be seen alongside her artworks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Birgir Andr\u00e9sson
Err\u00f3
Krist\u00edn J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir from Munka\u00fever\u00e1
Sigr\u00ed\u00f0ur Bj\u00f6rnsd\u00f3ttir
\u00d6rn \u00deorsteinsson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ger\u00f0arsafn received a two-year research grant from the Icelandic Museum Fund to undertake the first comprehensive study of Valger\u00f0ur Briem\u2019s life and work, lead by Cecilie Gaihede. The project combines art-historical research into her artistic practice with its presentation through an exhibition and publication, Myndvit – The Legacy of Valger\u00f0ur comprised of scholarly essays addressing Valger\u00f0ur\u2019s art, teaching and approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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