Stella Norrby

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Biography

​Stella Norrby is an Irish artist, based in Inishowen, Donegal. Her practice is predominately centered around the medium of sculpture and installation, through which she explores themes of memory, identity, and the human experience through her connection to nature and the surrounding landscape.​

​She studied fine art Sculpture and drawing at Winchester school of Art, gaining a BA (Hons) degree.

Gained a PGCE in Art and Design and worked in Secondary Art education for fifteen years as Head of Art and teacher of art in schools in England, Ireland and Sweden. Alongside ten years of working in business management and events planning.​

For the past ten years she has solely focused on developing her studio practice, exploring and engaging with different mediums, materials and ideas, resulting in a large body of work in sculpture, mixed media and photography.

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Statement​

​Through my creative work I am able to explore my relationship to my local landscape and heritage. I lived away for over 20 years, through this I carried with me a sense of longing, a cutting of the ties,for people and land, a homesickness for the hills and secret, soothing, nurturing places of this land.  I came home 10 years ago to tend a field, plant a garden and build a space for studio practice. ​Through, gardening I have a physical relationship with the landscape to explore.

There is a sense of weaving together this landscape and me, in the practicalities of everyday working, through heritage there are deep roots to explore, to look at how this earth holds me, asking, what is this that ties me to this land, what is its substance, form, shape, feel, thought.  I experience and notice the body, how it moves and feels, in its strength and frailty and its deep knowing. 

I am interested in the history and heritage of my surrounding landscape, feeling rooted in this land. Exploring the cellular and visceral sense of these deep connections.

I work with a very open approach sometimes with the excitement of a new idea, sometimes beginning by picking up materials that feel right in my hands, trusting the process of making.  I use installation to bring together my created forms, seeing the connections and play between creating a visual language for myself.

 

 

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