MAMTA
Mamta Baruah Herland is a painter and a digital artist born in North Eastern valley of Assam in India and living in Norway since 1987. Her works have been widely exhibited internationally and represented in private, public and corporate collections. Her acrylic paintings are a combination of naturalistic and abstract expression, created by various techniques. In addition to her paintings the artist also practices a range of mediums from the numerous disciplines of photography, digital printmaking and video. She employs technology as her collaborator and combines with her artistic endeavor to create images that refers to the blurred boundaries of rationality and magic, reality and dream, and highlights the move from the old logic of rationality to a utopian dream society. She allows her artwork to expand in different possible artistic dimensions and genre that future combine the aesthetic of technology with a sense of spirituality and transcendental emotion. By employing digital techniques her intent is for the artworks to evoke a sense of captivation and mysticism.
Education:
MA Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, England
Graphic Design, MI, Merkantilt Institutt, Oslo, Norway
Visual Arts, SCA, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia
Art related activities:
Head of the Board: Artists Association in Bærum, since 2007, Norway
Board member: Visual Artists Organization in Oslo and Akershus 2005-2008
Board member: FAKS, Asker Kunstfag skole, since 2006, Norway
Board member: BKFR, Bærum common council of municipal 2008-, Norway
Jury member: Regional official art exhibition 2006, Galleri Skårer, Norway
Jury member: Levende Landskap, Bærum Art Society, Norway 2008
Jury member: BKFR representative, The municipal cultural prize, Norway 2009
Jury member: Lyspunkt/Bright Spot, Bærum Art Society, Norway 2009
Curator & concept: Norge i Verden, Verden i Norge, Galleri BOA 2006, Oslo
Coordinator: The International Crossing 2008, the year of Diversity, Oslo
Projects: Workshop for Children 2008 & 09 under city council's annual festival
Presentation: Oslo International School, Event Building Brighter Future 2007
Membership:
The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK)
Association of Norwegian Painters (LNM)
Visual Artists Organization in Oslo and Akershus (BOA)
Artists Association in Bærum (BKiB)