Anja Celine Pedersen
Anja Celine is an aspiring film director, with a huge passion for photography. Born in Oslo 23 years ago, she directed her first short film when she was 16, and has been making films ever since. Anja Celine always runs around with her camera, capturing the world as she sees it.
http://anjaceline.blogspot.com
Bjørn Erik N. Johnrud
Bjørn Erik Johnrud hails from Kongsberg, Norway. He’s currently studying Communication Design at the Billy Blue College of Design.
Bjørn loves art, music and design and says that to be able to express himself with words, image and sound, are truly the most important things for him as an individual. He loves to throw himself into new experiences without questioning his choices or feeling regret. That’s why he came to Australia, and basically why he started his education as a graphic designer.
Bjørn is a person who knows a little bit about a lot of stuff, instead of the other way around. He finds this quality helpful when it comes to graphic design. Everything is important! He also plays guitar in a Norwegian punk/hardcore band called Your New Favourite White Trash, and in the music he finds a lot of inspiration for his design work.
www.facebook.com/mortskateboards
Dida Sundet
Unn-Therese Dida Sundet (born Kongsberg, Norway, 1980) is a Norwegian artist currently living in Melbourne, Australia. Dida works with a number of techniques to create her work, ranging from staged photography to sculpture and installation, but she considers herself mainly to be a Light Painter. Her constructed photographs explore notions of displacement, cultural traditions of storytelling and the politics of horror.
Dida’s most recent work situates the imagination as site for the construction of trans-identities and poetic realities. Her work unites aspects from an extensive background in theatre, film and photography in both Norway and Melbourne.
Dida is currently undertaking a MA Visual Arts (Research) at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia.
A Tail of Transformation (2011) was awarded an honourable mention in the 2011 International Photography Awards. Selected images from Dida’s previous work were awarded honourable mentions in both the 2009 and 2010 International Photography Awards.
Emma Bäcklund
Emma Bäcklund (26) hails from from Sweden. She studied wild life/ nature photography in Lofoten (Norway) 06/07. Her studies continued with Advertising in Stavanger at Norges Kreative Fagskola 09/11. She is currently studying Advertising /Art Direction at RMIT University in Melbourne.
http://emmabacklund.prosite.com
Hilde Thomsen
Hilde is a Melbourne based Illustrator and artist from the town, Stavanger in Norway. After three years studying Illustration at Northern Melbourne Institute of Tafe (NMIT), she is now finding her way in the world of freelance illustration.
A background in Social Work and an interest in people and societies, has lead her way in editorial illustration, newspaper drawing, caricature and social commentary illustration.
Her work tells a story – often referencing body language and facial expressions to communicate a mood or a narrative in a piece. Hilde always has her satirical pen at hand, and is not afraid to use it.
Inga Lillian Skallerud
Inga studied Media and Communications for one year at Bjørknes College in Oslo before she transferred to Edith Cowan University in Perth, majoring in advertising and graphic design. She volunteers for a non-profit magazine called Colosoul where she makes illustrations and cards for a blog called Bird On a Wire.
http://lilldesign.daportfolio.com
Kristoffer Lunde
Kristoffer Lunde hails from the great city of Stavanger, on the west-coast of the fabled country called Norway. He is currently studying graphic design at RMIT, doing his best to understand the local drawl, and make sure noone realises he’s actually a bit of a scatterbrain. Above average fond of coffee and books.
Marius Sortland Myklebust
Marius Sortland Myklebust (29) has lived in Wellington, New Zealand for four years. He is doing a Bachelor of Architectural Studies majoring in Landscape Architecture. Photography has been a major hobby for Marius since he started freelancing for newspapers in his Norwegian hometown at the age of 15, and has now turned into something of an obsession. He almost always carry a camera with him wherever he goes. Marius has also been the information officer in Ansa New Zealand for the past two years.
Marlen Holden
Marlen Holden is a 23-year-old student from Rykkinn, Norway, currently on her last year of studying Bachelor of Arts (Graphic Design) at Deakin University in Melbourne. Her background is from Media and Communication at Elvebakken VGS in Oslo, Norway and Graphic Design at NKF in Kristiansand, Norway.
Her creative skills are graphic design, illustrating/painting, amateur photography and animation. She’s especially captivated by typography and abstract painted art. Other than that she’s a member of Grafill (Norweigan Organisation for Visual Communication), and has won one award from Sabla Bra Studenter 2010 in the category Poster Design.
http://marlenholden.carbonmade.com
Meri Hietala
Meri Hietala is a visual artist from Finland. Past years she has been traveling and working on with site specific installations, sculptures 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 RMIT 2008. She has art collective Meirami with Bahrain based visual artist Mariam Haji. Currently Meri lives in Melbourne and does collaborations with artist fellows and does chainsaw sculpting.
www.theblenderstudios.com/Meri.html
www.meiramiart.blogspot.com
Ole Christian Alfheim
Animator and interactive designer with experience in concept development and specialisation in game design. Focussed on creating engaging results that provoke and inspire.
Sigbjørn Sørensen
Sigbjørn Sørensen is a Norwegian aspiring graphic designer, specialised in corporate identity, packaging design and printed materials. He has studied 2 years of graphic design at the Norwegian School of Creative Studies (NKF) in Oslo, and is currently undertaking a bachelor degree of graphic design at the Deakin University in Melbourne.
Steinar Ellingsen
Steinar Ellingsen is a Norwegian journalist, PhD candidate and newly appointed Lecturer in Journalism at La Trobe University. His PhD project is a process-based thesis, a documentary web series chronicling a ten-week odyssey in Australia (www.theinlandsea.com. au). Before moving to Melbourne, Steinar spent seven years as a freelance journalist and casual sports editor at the regional newspaper Laagendalsposten in Norway. In 2007, he was nominated for a Norwegian SKUP award, as part of a reportage team investigating a crisis in the local age care service.
www.steinarellingsen.com
www.theinlandsea.com.au
Stig Bratvold
Stig is a Melbourne based Norwegian graphic designer. He is finishing his degree in Communication Design at RMIT in November. He has been working as a freelance designer for the past two years working with clients such as Zebra Interior Design and Rogaland Theatre. His main interests are typography, branding, editorial and package design.