Artist Statement

Meri Hietala is a visual artist from Finland. Past years she has been traveling and working on with site specific installations, collages and paintings- discussing communal, social and environmental issues within her pieces. She completed her Bachelor degree in Textile Arts & Design in University of Art and Design Helsinki year 2009 and started her MA in Environmental Arts. She also studied Public Art in Melbourne RMIT 2008. Meri is founding member together with artist Mariam Haji of an art collective Meirami. Currently Meri lives in Melbourne.

MERI HIETALA: CURRICULUM VITAE

Contact memhietala@gmail.com

Meirami www.meiramiart.blogspot.com

Art

2010 coming  

๑ AHNE 2010 festival, Helsinki
๑ Meirami exhibition, Bahrain

2009               

๑ Solo Art Installation *memorial* Galleria Aralis, Helsinki
๑ Group exhibition Take Away, Galleria Johan S, Helsinki
๑ Group exhibition ”minimini” by www.spraygraphic.com, Tempe Arizona, USA
๑ Solo Art Installation *MeMeMeMe*, Esplanadi Park, Helsinki
๑ Solo exhibition ”ArtAttacks”, Imagine Art Residency, Coomba, NSW, Australia

2008

๑ Site specific Art Installations, “NoTiced”, “Fire Totem”, New Zealand
๑ Group exhibition/Auction, Guildford lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
๑ Solo exhibition ”Page 702”, Eisenberg´s Gallery, The Victorian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
๑ Group exhibition Poste SF, Famous When Dead Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2007  

๑ Menkka Haukka- Anti Fashion Show Tour, Collection ”!McEstae!”, Finland
๑ Solo !McEstae!, Secco Shop Gallery space, Helsinki Kohtuullisen Onnellinen-recycled material Art show, Laituri Gallery, Helsinki
๑ Inter Female group show, Galleria Aralis, Helsinki, Finland

2006    

๑ Cumulus International Design Conference, January Collection with Jukka Herttua for Ecological Green Fashion Show, Nantes, France
๑ Secco Recycled Designs Showroom touring Paris, Tokyo and Helsinki
๑ Recycled Designs from 2005, Kino Riitta, Turenki, Finland

Recidencies

2010         Blender Studios, Melbourne, Australia
2009         Imagine Art, Coomba, NSW, Australia
2008       Understudy to Multimedia Artist Maxine Williams, Clyde, New Zealand