Vigdis Sigmundsdóttir
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Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...
, most famous internationally for producing a collage
Collage
A collage is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole....
of 12 motives from Ormurin Langi
Ormurin Langi
Ormurin Langi is a ballad type song in the Faroe Islands. It was written ca. 1830 by Jens Christian Djurhuus.The song has 86 verses and is in Faeroese, and deals with the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason...
(‘The Long Serpent’) that resulted in a series of stamps from Postverk Føroya
Postverk Føroya
Posta is the postal service of the Faroe Islands and was founded on 1 April 1976 under the Home Rule of the Faroe Islands. On 16 December 2005, it became a public joint stock company under the name P/F Postverk Føroya ....
released in 2006.
History
Vigdis is a born artist, and started already as a child to draw, aquarelle and paint on canvas. As a child of the famous faroese painter Sigmund Petersen, she has had perfect surroundings for developing as an artist. Lately she has mainly concentrated on colorful paper collages. As collages has become her great passion, she has developed her own style and inspiration from the special light and weather on the Faroe Islands.She is a part of an artistic family, and currently her sister BIBI
Bibi
-First name:* Bibi Andersson Swedish actress* Bibi Besch, Austrian-American actress * Bibi Blocksberg, German children's series* Bibi Aisha, Afghan victim of facial mutilation...
, niece Aggi Ásgerð Ásgeirsdóttir
Aggi Ásgerð Ásgeirsdóttir
Aggi Ásgerð Ásgeirsdóttir is a Faroese artist. She was born in 1966 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. She was educated in Denmark and then moved back to the Faroe Islands, to the small village Vágur in Suðuroy, which is the southernmost island. In the summer 2009 Aggi move to Tórshavn or to Argir, now...
and niece Vígdis Petersen are renowned active artists.
Education
- 1956 Graduated as a Nurse from Randers Centralsygehus
- 1960s Attended courses on artistic drawing and painting at the School of Art in Randers
- 1972 Graduated as an Indoor Architect from Arkitekt Akademiet in Copenhagen
- 1980 Attended drawing and painting courses at the Nordic House in TórshavnTórshavnTórshavn is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the north west of the town lies the high mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the high Kirkjubøreyn...
Exhibitions
- 1995 The Faroese House, CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
- 2000 The Faroese House, Copenhagen
- 2001 Galleri Gertrud, Copenhagen
- 2002 Smiðjan í Lítluvík, TórshavnTórshavnTórshavn is the capital and largest town of the Faroe Islands. It is located in the southern part on the east coast of Streymoy. To the north west of the town lies the high mountain Húsareyn, and to the southwest, the high Kirkjubøreyn...
- 2004 Ormurin LangiOrmurin LangiOrmurin Langi is a ballad type song in the Faroe Islands. It was written ca. 1830 by Jens Christian Djurhuus.The song has 86 verses and is in Faeroese, and deals with the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason...
in 'Kulturhuset Førde', Fjalar og Hyllestad, NorwayNorwayNorway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... - 2004 Ministry of Culture, Tórshavn
- 2005 Ormurin LangiOrmurin LangiOrmurin Langi is a ballad type song in the Faroe Islands. It was written ca. 1830 by Jens Christian Djurhuus.The song has 86 verses and is in Faeroese, and deals with the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason...
in the Nordic House in ReykjavíkReykjavíkReykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay... - 2006 Ormurin LangiOrmurin LangiOrmurin Langi is a ballad type song in the Faroe Islands. It was written ca. 1830 by Jens Christian Djurhuus.The song has 86 verses and is in Faeroese, and deals with the Norwegian king Olaf Tryggvason...
released as 12 stamps - 2006 Bella Centeret in Copenhagen in association with a Viking Rotary Convention
- 2006 Drew Christmas stamps for Y´Mænds Club in OdenseOdenseThe city of Odense is the third largest city in Denmark.Odense City has a population of 167,615 and is the main city of the island of Funen...
- 2007 Helligåndshuset, RandersRandersRanders is a city in Randers municipality on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. It is Denmark's sixth-largest city, with a population of 60,656 . Randers city is the main town of the municipality and the site of its municipal council.-Overview:Randers municipality has 94,750 inhabitants...
Gallery - Ormurin langi (The Long Serpent)
The photos in the gallery below show some of the art works with motives from the old Faroese ballad "Ormurin langi", which Vígdis Sigmundsdóttir has created. They were used in a series of Faroese Stamps by Postverk Føroya in 2006.Presently
Vigdis Sigmundsdóttir has recently moved to the island SuðuroySuðuroy
Suðuroy is the southernmost of the Faroe Islands. The island covers 163.7 km². In 2010 there were 4763 inhabitants, but there has been a gradual decline in the population numbers ever since the 1950s....
which is the most southern part of Faroe Islands. Suðuroy is generally regarded as the most beautiful island in the Faroes, and it is providing her with plenty of inspiration for her art.
External links
- Homepage: http://heima.olivant.fo/~vigdis
- Info about the stamp series 'Ormurin Langi': www.tjatsi.fo
- Faroese stamps: www.stamps.fo
- Visitsuduroy.fo http://www.visitsuduroy.fo/UK/index.asp?pID={3066C8B2-5B6E-4299-BCC6-3E39191E3DCC}