Gudrun Nielsen FRSS
Salisbury Museum is surrounded by landscapes and monuments which have inspired generations of artists. Given this importance, it seems appropriate that the museum is the setting for an open competition that celebrates the evolving relationship that artists have towards the landscape.
The exhibition contains a diverse range of landscapes in a multitude of styles and media, reflecting the multifaceted relationships artists have to place, and the range of talented artists working within the established genre.
The Barren wasteland series II, 2025. In this new work the glacier has retreated and left us with it´s barren wasteland where Tungnaárglacier Iceland once was.
As the art historian Aldís Arnardóttir describes 2020 in an exhibition text for the Environmental series The barren wasteland, Iceland.
....In the summer of 2019 Gudrun went on a journey with her father Ólafur, to the old trails of the Tungnaá wasteland and Jökulheimar, there Gudrun took photographs for her Barren wasteland series. In an exhibition they merged photographs taken up to 70 years apart.
The forces of nature are unpredictable and nowhere are the opposites as great as in this barren wasteland. Where the white glacier's edge has retreated and wide areas of black sand and wasteland appear....
