ROALD ANDERSEN
Roald Andersen is a Norwegian artist living and working in Kristiansand, Norway. His practice ranges from smaller to larger pieces and is multidisciplinary. He works in, for example, painting and sculpture, installation, public commission, and drawing.
Andersen’s works often bear in them beauty and darkness. They are attractive and appalling. He works with trauma, taboo, identity, sensitivity, body, and nature. Bones become branches, trees grow from human skulls, and everything is constantly changing and growing in a cyclic way. “From earth hast thou come, to earth shalt thou return, and from earth shalt thou rise again”, with biblical words. Also, Andersen has in his work investigated male identity and heritage, vulnerability and sensitivity. He has asked what masculinity is perceived as - and, perhaps, supposed to be perceived as. Family, stability, and feelings of safety and unsafety, security and insecurity are as well major turning points in Andersen’s artistry.
Andersen is an autodidact artist. He has done several solo and group exhibitions, public commissions, and he is represented in museums as well as public and private collections.