Sauli Iso-Lähteenmäki

Sauli Iso-Lähteenmäki
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b. 1960, Vammala
Visual Artist, Graphic Artist/Printmaker, Painter
Residence: Tampere

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Phone number: +358 50 3480489

Artist’s Statement

My subjects often approach nature and animals. Forests, flowing waters, mountains and skies, frogs, birds and lizards or the sea and flowers. I work my subjects away from reality into my own unique formal language. My works are more pictures of the relationship with the surroundings than their depiction.

I mainly create my works in gravure and oil paintings, and combine these techniques with each other. I have also produced public works on, for example, aluminum, concrete and steel.
I live in Tampere, on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi, and I work on the third floor of Nanso-fabrik in Nokia. I graduated as a Visual Artist in 1984 and have been working in the profession ever since. My works have been exhibited in many private and joint exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. My works are in numerous private and public collections both in Finland and abroad.
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SAULI ISO-LÄHTEENMÄKI (b. 1960)


Studio Tanhuankatu 2 37100 Nokia ( Nansotalo)


tel. 050 3480489 sauli.iso-lahteenmaki@saunalahti.fi


Studies:


Kankaanpää Art School 1981-84


Memberships:


Finnish Graphic Artists Association, Finnish Painters' Association, Tampere Artists' Association,


I work with intaglio graphics and painting,


sculpture and their combinations.


I have also made public works on glass using sandblasting and screen printing methods,


as well as on aluminum and steel.


Works in collections including:


The State of Finland, Art Collection of the Parliament, Gösta Serlachius Art Museum, Hiekka Art Museum


The Graphic Collection of the City of Antwerp (Belgium), Vesterås Art Museum (Sweden),


Linköpings kommun, Stockholms läns Landsting,


Landstinget Orebro, Landstinget Värmland, Konst Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Gävleborg, Matti Milius Collection, Tartu, Estonia, Rauma Art Museum,


City of Tampere, City of Parkano, City of Nokia,


Stredoslovenska Galeria (Slovakia),


Grafiek Centrum voor Frans Maserlee (Belgium), City of Valkeakoski


Selected solo exhibitions in Finland:


2023 Gallery Kipinä, Lahti


2020, Room&RUM, Inkoo


2018, Kangasalatalo Gallery,


2016, Gallery 2, Pirkkala


STG / Grafoteekki artist of the month 2012, Library Gallery, Nurmijärvi 2011


Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere 2010, Auran Gallery, Turku 2010


Gallery Brinkkala, Turku 2009, Gallery Aila Seppälä, Lahti 2008,


Gallery Harmaja, Oulu 2006,


Gallery G, Helsinki 2003, Gallery Saskia, Tampere 2003


Myllysaari Museum, Valkeakoski 2000,


Tampere Hall Winter Garden (cultural fund) 1999,


Gallery Stenman, Kokkola 1996, Gallery Saskia, Tampere 1992,


Poriginal - Gallery Pori 1991,


Galleria Saskia Tampere 1989,


Emil Cedercreutz Museum, Harjavalta 1988,


Solo exhibitions abroad:


2014 New York, USA.


2000, 2012Tamperemajan Gallery, Tartu, Estonia


1998, Kalmthout, Belgium


1995Hofter Weyden, Essen, Belgium




  1. Cultuur Centrum Voor, Brussels, Belgium .


1993 Bornem, Belgium


Awards include:


Printti 2018 – 1st Prize,


Europol Art-Competition , The Hague , Netherlands 2010, 1st Prize.


Lilla Europa, 4th biennale of small scale art 2006, Sweden, Graphics I prize


5th International Quadrennal of the Small Graphic Forms Czechoslovakia, Grand Prix, 1989


Public works include:


Kennosto / Kitesurfing / Haukkala daycare center, aluminum/steel, Nokia 2024


Friends, Isokuusen daycare center / school Vuores Aluminum,Steel, Tampere 2022


Vuoreksen Välke, aluminum, Tampere 2021


World Wheel on the Horizon, Vuores / Tampere 2018.


Bint tree, aluminum Vuores / Tampere 2018


Noise Art Gallery, Tampere coastal tunnel 2017


Regional photos, oil / gravure print on aluminum, Valkeakoski 2013


Northern Forests, gravure print / oil on wood, Europol Headquarters, The Hague, 2011


New Spring, sandblasting on glass, Tampere 2009


Permutation, silkscreen on glass, 2004


Memory of Water, sandblasting on glass, City of Tampere, 2004


Selected joint and group exhibitions abroad:


2020, Nordic Contemporary Print Triennial 2020, Sweden


2019, 10TH PAINTING & MIXED MEDIA COMPETITION, Sofia Bulgaria


2018, International Ex Libris Exhibition Skopje


2012, Tampere-Majan Gallery, Tartu


Selectie Grafiek uit het Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium 1994


Skövde, Sweden 1993 , The 1st International Print Biennial Maastricht, Holland 1993


Yokohama International Print Auction '92, Kanagawa, Japan 1992


The 17th International Independent Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa, Japan 1992


Tampere Artists' Association Exhibition, Cairo, Egypt 1991, Intergrafia, Katowice, Poland 1991


The 14th International Independent Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa, Japan 1988


Polish-Finnish Maritime Print Competition, Gdańsk 1985


Selected collective and group exhibitions in Finland:


2025 “Horizonteja” Galleria Saskia. Tampere


2023 “Etkot” , Höyry Gallery, Korpilahti


2022 “Maistiaisia” Galleria Virta, Nokia


2021 Funkkis Gallery, Sastamala


2021 Riihigalleria, Kuhmoinen


2016, Gumbostrandin kesä, sipoo


2016, Summer Prints, G-gallery, Helsinki


2014, Views en Route, works from Finavia collections Vantaa Airport


2014, Voipaala Art Center


2011, Gösta Serlachius Art Museum, `Gösta – Metsä´,


Art Center Purnu 2010,


1st Pirkanmaa Triennial, Museum Center Vapriikki, Tampere 2000


Seinäjoki Art Hall 1996


Galleria Saskia, Tampere 1993,


Pro Graphica, Lohja 1989, , Satakunta Art Exhibition, Rauma 1982