Steinar ellingSen DirectorSteinar Ellingsen is a Norwegian journalist and Ph.D. candidate at La Trobe University in Melbourne, where he tutors in several Journalism and Media Studies subjects. His Ph.D. project is an online travel documentary about a ten-week odyssey in the Australian outback: www.theinlandsea.com.au.Born in Kongsberg, Norway, Steinar started as a freelance journalist and photographer in 1997, working mainly for his hometown newspaper Laagendalsposten, and working as casual editor of the Sports section.

ingvill ODDSenCreative Director & graphic DesignerIngvill is a 25 year old graphic designer from Stavanger, Norway. She moved to Australia in 2007 to start a Bachelor degree in Visual Communication at Monash University. After graduating in 2009, she continued with an Honours degree in 2010 focusing on Norwegian identity. Ingvill has been active in ANSA for nearly two years, but is new to the creative team behind ScanArt. She participated as an exhibitor in ScanArt 2009 and is now excited to give others the same opportunity.

Hanne Marie FOSSPress and Promotion Manager & treasurerHanne is a Master of Marketing student at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, where she is currently in her final semester of a Master of Marketing and Commerce. Besides studies she works at a winery in the Yarra Valley and she is a member of the ANSA Melbourne board. Impressed with ScanArt’s previous success she is very excited to be on this year’s committee.

HilDe tHOMSenillustratorHilde is a Melbourne based Illustrator and artist from the fjords of Norway. She is currently in her last year of the Bachelor of Illustration at NMIT, Melbourne. Today Hilde spends most of her time doing editorial illustrations and caricatures for publications such as Shambhala Sun Magazine (Canada), Stavanger Aftenblad (Norway), Gatemagasinet Asfalt (Big Issue in Stavanger, Norway) and Fagbladet Psykopp (Norway). She is also working on illustrations for a Norwegian Children´s book.

MOrten WarHOlM HaugenWeb DeveloperMorten has had the privilege of working with ScanArt for the previous two years. This while doing his Bachelor degree in Commercial Photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Despite him having moved back to the motherland, he has somehow managed to hold on to a small role in this year’s exhibition as well. Morten currently lives in the charming city of Trondheim, where he thrives as a “post.man” for the Norwegian fashion and advertising photographer Lasse Berre.

auStralian FrienDS anD FellOW FOreignerS,

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the sixth annual ScanArt, an initiative by the Association of Norwegian Students Abroad.

In its relatively short history, ScanArt has grown from being an exhibition for Norwegian students in Australia, to reach-ing out to students and alumni from all Scandinavian countries living in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. This year we have extended our reach further, and welcome our first contributions from our neighbours in Finland, in effect making ScanArt a Nordic event.

ScanArt is a juried mixed media exhibition, promoting emerging Scandinavian – and Nordic – artists and designers in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. As it is an exhibition by mainly international students, it changes considerably from year to year. Some move home, others move away from home. People study new and different things. We believe this is an integral part of ScanArt’s appeal. New exhibitors are introduced every year. Returning exhibi-tors progress and refine their expressions. ScanArt provides a space for reflection and insight into to creative processes for all who experience and engage with it. You never know exactly what you’re going to get, but it’s always going to be refreshingly exciting.

Beyond providing an arena to promote fresh talent, ScanArt is a testament to the cultural exchange brought on by travel and interna-tional education. It is a forum for expressing cultural identity and building creative con-nections between home and here – wherever here might be in Australasia. ScanArt is also a charity for the Thailand Project, a non-profit

organisation run by Norwegian international students, helping to raise funds for a number of orphanages and educational facilities in Northern Thailand. ScanArt’s exhibitors make a minimum donation of 25% of their sales to the cause, and we encourage our visitors to also help us help the project.

ScanArt have received much help this year, both financially and practically. We are proud to present ScanArt 2010 in partner-ship with the Royal Norwegian embassy in Canberra and Jarlsberg. We also extend our eternal gratitude to; Timothy J. Smith for his invaluable involvement as a consultant and producer; Appetite for Construction for their help in building display solutions for the exhibition; Small Block Café for providing delicious catering; Lightfoot and Sons for their kind donations; the jury, who have selected the works in the exhibition; and, 1000 Pound Bend for housing ScanArt 2010.

Finally, we congratulate all our 18 exhibitors. We are proud to present the biggest and broadest ScanArt exhibition to date, and we hope you enjoy it!

the ScanArt 2010 Committe

Dear PartiCiPantS, StuDentS anD artiStS.

It is with great pleasure that I am introducing the sixth ANSA ScanArt.

The closest I get to art in my job is the deco-ration of post-it notes on my desk, and I really admire the creativity among the exhibitors of this year’s ScanArt. I also admire the hard work the exhibition committee have put in in order to make it such a successful event.

ANSA is proud to promote ScanArt, as this exhibition provides a unique opportunity for talented Scandinavians to show off their work, which in turn helps to increase the awareness of Scandinavian art 16.000 kilometers away from home.

Considering the fact that the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch studied in France, maybe one could argue that being abroad triggers an artist’s creativity?

I sincerely hope that ScanArt will continue to promote excellent aspiring artists in many years to come, and contribute to put Scandinavian art on the map and make it an export as desirable as wood, meatballs and sausages.

I wish everyone involved in this exhibition all the best of luck – both with the event and for the future.

Best regards

Kristoffer MoldekleivPresident of anSa

ANSA — the Association of Norwegian Students Abroad — was founded in 1956.

ANSA is an independent, non-profit organisation working to maintain the academic, financial, cultural and social interests of Norwegians who study abroad.

ANSA is a membership-based organisation with students in over 90 countries at over 1200 educa-tional institutions worldwide.

Over 500 ANSA members are elected representatives of the or-ganisation. ANSA runs Norway’s national information centre for studies abroad.

The organisation also provides students abroad with counselling and emergency help.

www.ansa.no

Introduction bythe ANSA President

the thailandproject is a non-profit humanitar-ian organisation run by norwegian students in australia, new Zealand and Singapore, through anSa. the project is a main contribu-tor to the BaanChivitMai (“Home for new life”) organisation, an orphanage located in Chieng rai in northern thailand. Swedish mission-ary ewa Olofsson founded BaanChivitMai in 1993. the thailandproject started up in 2001, after a group of students joined student chaplain Knut inge Bergem on a visit to BaanChivitMai.

Since its inception, the organisation has built a main centre in Chieng Rai called Hua Doi, which houses over 50 school-aged children and 20 teenage girls. A second centre, Eden, is situated in the same area and caters for children with HIV and AIDS. Another two centres are located in rural areas outside of Chieng Rai, and BaanChivitMai have several new projects in development.

Small jungle villages inhabited by poor tribal people surround the city. These villages are largely disjointed from the greater Thai popu-lation. They do not speak, read or write the official language. They have minimal official documentation, and as a result they are often not regarded as Thai citizens. The process of becoming accepted as citizens is tough, and made tougher by a lack of education and medical help from the government.

Traditionally the villages depended on opium crops. Since their only trade has been banished, there have been provided no other options, and the local people struggle to find alternate sources of income.

The reality for the children in the region is surrounded by horrors of poverty, hunger, physical abuse, drug abuse, and danger of being sold to prostitution. In recent years there has been a large-scale outbreak of HIV

Photo: Marlene Lundquist

and AIDS, which can be regarded a result of the considerable increase in child prostitution.

BaanChivitMai’s target group are children in danger of being sold. They provide food, accommodation and education, work and work training for the local population and their young.

All funds donated to the Thailandproject go unabridged to BaanChivitMai. Administration costs are funded by other means.

ScanArt’s exhibitors make a manda-tory donation of 25% of their sales to the Thailandproject, and we encourage our visitors help us help the cause.

For more information, visit www.thailandproject.org

about the Thailand Project

SCanart exHiBitOrS DOnate a MiniMuM OF 25% OF tHeir SaleS revenue tO tHe tHailanD PrOjeCt

as an australian it is wonderful to view this year’s Scanart exhibition and see how the world is interpreted by people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. But what is most in-teresting about this exhibition is that whilst displaying the diversity inherent in being Scandinavian, it concurrently creates a sense of community as Scandinavian students from around australasia come together to share their work.

It must also be remembered that this cause goes beyond the ephemeral exhibition and the money raised from sales of art works goes to the Thailandproject, a not-for-profit organisa-tion of Norwegian students in Australasia that supports an orphanage established by a Swedish missionary in Chieng Rai, North Thailand. The Thailandproject and ScanArt itself are undoubtedly positive multinational exchanges.

The strength of the works in this year’s exhibition can be gauged by the high level of enjoyment my fellow jurors and I took from our time assessing the wide-ranging works pre-sented. These works prompted rich and interesting discussion on a range of subjects, just as good art should. This year’s submissions are of an exceptional standard and all those who contributed must be applauded, I’m sure that you will enjoy looking at this exhibition as much as we did.

Much of the vitality of ScanArt stems from the very fact that it is run by students, for students. Congratulations must be extended to all involved, however a special mention should be made of Steinar Ellingsen, Ingvill Oddsen, Hanne Marie Foss, Hilde Thomsen, and Morten Warholm Haugen who have worked so hard to produce yet another outstanding exhibition.

Finally, I urge you to encourage your friends to attend this exhibition. Melbourne has an abundant history of attracting artists from around the world, and organisations such as ScanArt play an important part in this city’s ever growing cultural vivacity.

Humphrey Clegg acting Curator, australian art, ngv

Martin Comte, Phd and former Dean of Faculty of Education ar RMITHumphrey Clegg, Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of VictoriaDavid Milne, Melbourne based painter and sculptorSarah Jones (absent), Visual artist, Co-ordinator of 2nd year Bachelor of Design, Visual Communication at Monash University and co-founder of West Space Inc.

Left to right

the ScanArt 2010 Jury

Photo: Steinar Ellingsen

MelBOurne HaS an aBunDant HiStOry OF attraCting artiStS FrOM arOunD tHe WOrlD, anD OrganiSatiOnS SuCH aS SCanart Play an iMPOrtant Part in tHiS City’S ever grOWing Cultural vivaCity.

Dear exhibitors, Organisers, anSa members, Scandinavians and guests

Students constitute a notable part of the Scandinavian society in Oceania and I see the high number of Scandinavian students in Oceania as a very positive development. Scandinavian students contribute to the strengthening of rela-tions between the Scandinavian countries and Oceania and spread knowledge about Scandinavia which may enhance and build the Scandinavian image.

ScanArt is a manifestation of the creative results deriving from the cultural come-together of young Scandinavians and their new countries of study and residence. The Norwegian Embassy in Canberra is pleased to acknowledge that ScanArt is an arena for cultural exchange between the Scandinavian Diaspora in Australia and Oceania.

Public diplomacy and international cultural cooperation have increasingly become integral to Norwegian foreign affairs. Presentation of Norwegian art and culture contributes inter alia to promote Norway as a modern nation in the fields of education, research and culture.

ANSA Australia represents Norwegian students’ interests in Australia. The official Norway in Australia - represented by the Embassy in Canberra as well as the seven Norwegian consulates around Australia – very much values its close coop-eration with ANSA Australia and is proud to support ScanArt.

I wish you all a pleasant exhibition.

Siren gjerme eriksenambassador

EXHIBITORS

ann KriStin ulriCHSenankristin@msn.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: VinjeHometown: StabekkAustralian city: Byron Bay

Daniel BrOKStaDmail@danielbrokstad.com www.danielbrokstad.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: StavangerAustralian city: Melbourne

Fire 25 × 21,5 cmAcrylics, charcoal, ink, oil pencil

Bathroom Massacre A2 print

elMeDin ZuniCzunic.elmedin@gmail.com

Country: NorwayHome town: KristiansandBirthplace: Bosnia Herzegovina Australian city: Melbourne

eMMa julie jenSenemmajuliejensen@gmail.com www.behance.net/emmajulie

Country: NorwayBirthplace: LevangerAustralian city: Townsville

Structure # 46 × 56 cmInk, acrylic paint and diluted coffee on paper

tweedhorse1 21× 21cmFilm photography print

jan MOrten BjørnSenjan_morten@hotmail.com wix.com/JMBjornsen/janmorten

Country: NorwayBirthplace: StjørdalAustralian city: Perth

jOrun nyMOpost@nymodesign.com madeup.no | nymodesign.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: MålselvAustralian city: Perth

Cicerello 29,7 × 21cmPhotographic print

Madeupdigital video/motion graphics

leanDra tHOMPSOn bella78@gmail.comleandrat.daportfolio.com

Country: NorwayHometown: OsloBirthplace: BrazilAustralian city: Perth

SinnSyKSHit By: larSenkimandre.larsen@gmail.com www.sinnsykshit.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: OsloAustralian city: Melbourne

inner City Pressure 121×152cmAcrylics, spray paint, marker and ink on canvas

Shari30 × 42cmDigital print

Meri Hietala memhietala@gmail.com theblenderstudios.com/Meri.html

Country: FinlandBirthplace: HelsinkiAustralian city: Melbourne

MaDS aanenSenmadsinski@gmail.com www.flickr.com/photos/madsinski

Country: NorwayBirthplace: StokmarknesAustralian city: Perth

Snowcanon 50 × 40cmMetallic print

Pope Detail of mixed media installation

Ole CHriStian alFHeiMole@motiongraphics.no www.motiongraphics.no

Country: NorwayBirthplace: BergenAustralian city: Melbourne

Ola gytrigytri9@hotmail.com olagytri.blogspot.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: HaugesundAustralian city: Melbourne

Faen i Helvete A3 Photographic print

War inc.Digital 2D vector animation

Saara laMBergwww.saaralamberg.com

Country: FinlandBirthplace: HelsinkiAustralian city: Melbourne

Per øyvinD WeuMpo_oyvind@hotmail.com www.peroyvind.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: NesbruAustralian city: Surfers Paradise

Soria Moria A2 Poster

100%100 × 100cmPainting and collage

Stig BratvOlDstig.bratvold@gmail.com www.stigbratvold.no

Country: NorwayHometown: StavangerBirthplace: USAAustralian city: Melbourne

Silje BlæneSsiljeb123@gmail.com www.stickysugarysurfaces.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: BergenAustralian city: Melbourne

Wire30 × 20cmPhotographic print

Stay PositiveA2 Poster

DiDa SunDet didajenta@gmail.com www.didasundet.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: KongsbergAustralian city: Melbourne

SuSanna Bergsannaberg@hotmail.com www.sannaberg.com

Country: NorwayBirthplace: SandefjordAustralian city: Perth

JewelleryBracelet with glass beads

Feed time 70 × 70cmArchival inkjet print

We are proud to present this year’s partners

Displays and materials delivered by

Gifts donated by

ScanArt 2010 showing at

Catering by

Café: 130 lygon St east Brunswick

This catalogue is produced and designed by the ScanArt committee of 2010, for the ScanArt exhibition.( Sept 29 – Oct 4)

361 Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne CBDSeptember 29 – October 4

Launch October 1, 6pm

www.scanart-australia.com

Layout & Design Ingvill Oddsen

Illustration Hilde Thomsen

TextSteinar Ellingsen

Press & PromotionHanne Foss