Silja Puranen is a visual artist born in 1961. She lives and
works in Tuusula from Southern Finland. Her interpretation towards work and its
process influenced more about textiles and cloths. Because there might be a
reason behind that she has done her major studies in textiles. She has done her
art education from Kuopio Institute of Art and Design and received further
studies aesthetics from the University of Helsinki.
She also was a jury member in the Kaunas Art
Biennial. She had been awarded by the Nodric award textiles as the biggest award
in 2009. The jury stated her honorably as “She processes with found textiles
materials with her unique relationship of selection of used textiles and the
combination of old and new techniques that gives characteristic “Puranenish”
intimacy to her artistic approach.”
Her works:
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| Siamese Twins, Silja Puranen |
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| Aeralist, Silja Puranen |
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| Without Safety,
Silja Puranen
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The Birth Of Venus,
Silja Puranen
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Happiness,
Silja Puranen
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| Rose
/ Renunciation and Lapse,
Silja Puranen
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Eats Like a Bird,
Silja Puranen
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| I
Could Have Danced All Night,
Silja Puranen
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Silja uses her everyday reality to make artistic, social and
cultural statements. She started off as a student of textile art, using
traditional techniques and design, but as she says:
‘In my own art the tendency that accentuates a nature and
material aesthetic influenced me for a few years after my studies, but I also
worked this phase out of myself. Social concerns and contemporary popular taste
– whose decorativeness diverges greatly from the official good taste of the
tradition in Finnish industrial art – have come into my works via their motifs
and via the recycled materials that I use.’
