Nelli Tanner
"My work has roots in everyday objects and behaviour. I collect old household objects which were often wooden and made by man and a knife.
My other intrest lies in broken but kept things. A broken leather wallet nobody wanted but it’s kept as a family heritage. A self-fixed hammer that looks useful but it is useless.
I copy and imitate these objects, also the way they were made: using a knife or other time consuming tools like a hand drill instead of a machine drill. By breaking and rearranging I’m translating the objects again"
Nelli Tanner
Nelli Tanner (b. 1976) is known as an artist who works in many ways in the
field of jewellery and visual arts. Tanner’s work balance in the borders, the
works are hybrids of sculpture, video and wearable art that require time
and observation to create. Tanner searches moments of everyday life by
drawing and recording of things she sees & hears. People carrying
objects, things, themselves. Tanner observes how people behave with objects
and how humans are connected to their surroundings through the objects.
Tanner was nominated as the Jewellery Artist of the year 2009 in Finland.
Tanner was given the Prize of the Federation Wallonia Brussels, European
Triennale for Contemporary Jewellery by World Craft Council – Belgique
Francophone in 2014.
Tanner graduated from the Department of Jewellery at the Gerrit Rietveld
Academie in the Netherlands in 2003 after jewellery&stone studies in
Finland. Tanner completed her education as Master in Culture and Art in
2012 at the Saimaa University of Applied Science in Finland.
