Surnadal is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is part of the Nordmøre region. The administrative centre is the village of Skei. Other villages in Surnadal include Glærem, Mo, Stangvik, Surnadalsøra, Sylte, Todalsøra, and Åsskard.
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner is the second daughter of King Olav V and his wife, Princess Märtha of Sweden. She is the older sister of King Harald V of Norway and younger sister of the late Princess Ragnhild.
Nils Sigurd Aas was a Norwegian sculptor. He was one of the most prominent artists in modern Norwegian sculpture and is particularly well known for his statue of Haakon VII, located in the June Seventh Square in Oslo, and for designing coins for Norwegian currency, including 10-krone and 20-krone coins.
Rolf Nesch was German born, Norwegian expressionist artist, especially noted for his printmaking.
Alf-Jørgen Aas was a Norwegian painter and art instructor.
Hanne Tømta is a Norwegian theatre instructor and theatre director.
Kristofer Leirdal was a Norwegian sculptor and art educator. He was especially noted for his sculptural contributions to the restoration of the Nidaros Cathedral.
Kjerstin Marie Øvrelid was a Norwegian painter. She was known for her poetic paintings of flowers and depictions of the sea and skerries, usually those seen from Holmesund, northeast of Arendal, where she had her summer home.
Tone Thiis Schjetne was a Norwegian sculptor. She is represented in the National Gallery of Norway and other galleries, contributed several works to the Nidaros Cathedral, and made decorations to Vadsø Church. Among her best known public works is the bronze sculpture Go'dagen in Oslo, Trondheim and Stavanger.
Karl Martin Norum (1852—1911) was a Norwegian architect, best known for his many church buildings, as well as contributions to the reconstruction after the fire in the city of Ålesund in 1904. Norum is well known for his Art Nouveau and Dragestil designs.
Eva Elisabeth Børresen was a Norwegian ceramist.
Ahmed Umar is a Sudanese-Norwegian visual artist and LGBT activist. He grew up in a conservative family in Sudan and later fled to Norway. His artwork mixes Sudanese and Western influences. He was profiled in the 2020 documentary The Art of Sin.
Ellinor (Lilla) Dagmar Flor née Bjærshol is a Norwegian textile artist. Inspired by folk art, her designs have principally focused on women's hats and costumes, frequently combining knitting and embroidery. She has also created church textiles and fabrics for furniture. For her success in renewing Norway's interest in knitting, in 1992 she was awarded the Jacob Prize. Flor is considered to be one of Norway's most distinctive clothing designers. Her works are in the collections of a number of museums, including Norway's National Museum.
Åse Marie Frøyshov is a Norwegian textile artist. Working principally with different types of brightly coloured wool, she has created non-figurative carpets and wall hangings including "Fanfare", an enormous woven wall display for the Tomsø Music Conservatory. Her tapestries often consist of patches arranged in collage-like patterns, extending beyond the edges of a rectangular frame. Textiles for churches, such as altarpieces, altar cloths, rugs and chasubles, can be seen in Rennebu's Innset Church and in Hamar Cathedral. At the 2021 Florence Biennale, Frøyshov was awarded the prize for "Textile and Fiber Art".
Brit Haldis Fuglevaag is a Norwegian textile artist and educator who since the 1970s has been a leading contributor to Norwegian art. From 1964, she worked from her own studio in Oslo, creating wide interest in her expressive woven creations. Influenced by the art she has experienced in Poland and France and increasingly experimenting with form and colour, she uses a variety of materials for her woven works, everything from long-haired wool to plastic and newspaper. After retiring from teaching at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry in 1996, she moved to Paris but has now returned to Norway. Her works can be seen in a number of buildings in Oslo as well as in the National Museum and the Art Museum in Trondheim.
Nina Malterud is a Norwegian ceramist. A graduate of the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry, since 1975 she has created a variety of practical and artistic artefacts, both large and small, working mainly with blue clay. Applying her art to tiles, she has decorated public buildings including the University of Tromsø and the Courthouse in Sandvika. Malterud was head of ceramics at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design from 1994, serving as rector from 2002 to 2010. In 2022, she not only received the Ulrik Hendriksen Honorary Award but was honoured with the St. Olav's Medal.
Gro Jessen (1938–2003) was a Norwegian textile artist. One of her country's most significant contributors to textile art in the second half of the 20th century, she also taught at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and was active in a number of craft organizations including Norske Kunsthåndverkere. From the 1980s, her works were increasingly decorative as she experimented with new techniques and a variety of fabrics. Several of her creations are in the permanent collection of Norway's National Museum. Jessen has received a number of prizes, including the Norske Kunsthåndverkere's Honorary Award in 2003.
Yngvild Fagerheim is a Norwegian ceramist. Inspired by American and European experiments with ceramics, she was one of the first in Norway to break away from practical applications and adapt her skills to artistic expression. Her work has frequently reflected her political views, for example in connection with the Vietnam War or the feminist movement. In 1977 she was offered but refused the Jacob Prize, Norway's annual award for craftsmanship. Several of Fagerheim's works are in the permanent collection of Norway's National Museum.
Lisbet Dæhlin née Hübschmann (1922–2012) was a Danish-born Norwegian ceramist who is remembered for her blue-glazed jugs and vases. She was among those who helped to develop Norwegian ceramics from practical use to works of art. After studying in Copenhagen, she moved to Norway in 1949 and worked for a time with the sculptor and ceramist Svein Visted (1903–84) in his Lillehammer workshop. Around 1970, she established her own studio in the Frysia district of Oslo where she worked until 2007. She has exhibited widely in Norway and beyond. A number of Dæhlin's creations are in the permanent collection of Norway's National Museum.
Charlotte Block Hellum née Stöckel (1911–2005) was a German-born Norwegian ceramist and enamel artist. After completing her studies in Germany, she moved to Norway where she established a ceramics workshop in 1947 and exhibited at the Autumn Exhibition in 1950. From the mid-1960s, she worked exclusively as an enameller, decorating copper dishes, bowls and vases with both figurative and non-figurative designs. In 1975, Hellum was honoured with Norway's most significant craft award, the Jacob Prize.
