Guðrún opened the exhibition INSIDE in the new Visitor Center at Hellissandur on Saturday, January 13. The exhibition will last until April 24. It is open during the opening hours of the National Park Visitor Center or daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The world of rocks, ice and water, the material world, geohistorical quotes and cultural relics are the basic themes in a series of works that Guðrún has been working on for the past two years, and the exhibition INSIDE is the second in a series of exhibitions where everything revolves around time, what is invisible to us and actually beyond our understanding, where everything has a beginning and everything ends.
INTO, the first exhibition in the series, was held by Guðrún in Sesseljuhús in Sólheimar last summer, but the next exhibitions will take place across the country. The exhibition in the Vistior Center in Hellissandur, as well as other exhibitions in the series, are related to the environment and the location, both from the point of view of material reality as well as cultural history.
In addition to being a highly educated visual artist, Guðrún is an entrepreneur in the field of environmental education, but she founded and ran the website Natturan.is / Nature.is for ten years. In addition, she has worked as a ranger for years, both in Þingvellir National Park and as chief ranger in Vatnajökull National Park. The connection with nature is well expressed in her last works, where interest in the land and the nature of the cycle of biological substances plays a large part in the research and processing methods for the creation of the large scale paintings.
Guðrún has received numerous awards for her work, both in the field of environmental education and cultural communication, as well as for her art. Her works are based on a strong conceptual and often historical foundation, but she constantly experiments with new techniques and narrative methods in her art.