Nelli Tanner
study of
2023
paper, milk
Nelli Tanner 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, theworks are hybrids of sculpture, video and wearable art that require timeand observation to create.
dialog I
2023
marble
to think
2023
slate, marble
Santurday evening, 2024
Light, projector
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.
dialog I 2024
video, granite
father's wristwatch
2024
Publication
Silent Notes and absent Places
