Ilveskorpi, Sara | Artist Register – Artists’ Association of Finland

Bio

I am a visual artist, researcher, art educator and gardener, who explores self-sufficiency and deep ecology as practice. My work focuses on reciprocity and resilience as well as encounters with multispecies in a time of sustainability crisis. I work in the Nytorp homestead and in the old school building of Tjuda Pedagogy in Kemiönsaari Finland. I have worked multidisciplinary in the field of art for 30 years. I hold an MA from Aalto University, Department of Art and Design and BA in visual arts from the Turku Academy of Arts. Now I study towards Doctor of Arts degree in Aalto University’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Art and Media. My research aims to formulate a dialogue based on regenerative pedagogy in artistic work and artistic research, especially from an environmental aesthetic view. Previously, I have worked as a photographer and designer. My artistic work is often rooted on lens-based techniques and learning and using different materials and techniques. Lately I have been making video art, but also clay sculptures. My practice involves living side by side with the local ecosystem and methods derived from agroecology to acknowledge the various interactions and dependencies in ecologies. In my art, I try to re-negotiate the relationship between the human animal and nature. I am e.g. member of Finnish Printmakers, Bioart Society and Av-arkki.