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The Artist
Multidisciplinary Norwegian artist Elin Hauklien obtained a diploma as a certified Glasscraftsman in 2001. She did her apprentice time at Lillehammer Kunstglass, a Norwegian Glassblowing Hotshop. During the seven years she was there, she was part of the production team for about five years and she also took part in product development and all aspects of the work in the hotshop. She did engraving and sandblasting as part of the cold work in the company and she had an own art series in production, called the “Elin vase”.
In June 2007 Elin obtained a Bachelor in Childcare and Welfare after studying at Lillehammer University College. During the years to come Elin continued to use her artistic skills in preventative work and projects for children and families with challenges in her local community. She was a project manager for Girl Groups in Ringebu Municipality and for DIL, an interdisciplinary cooperation between schools, health care, psychiatric services and state welfare services.
After Elin Hauklien and her husband moved to Namibia in 2010, Elin started the Norwegian preventative School program MOT (which means Courage) in cooperation with The Ministry of Education in the Khomas region in Namibia. She continued
to use her creativity and artistic skills while running the program. Elin Hauklien view art, not only as a visual creation of something made by ones hands, but she
views art as a way to interact with others, the art of communication and the art of connecting with different cultures. She has continued to hone those artistic skills through role plays, presentations and storytelling while training MOT-presenters and teachers in Namibia and South Africa.
In 2013 Elin Hauklien continued her artistic journey as she and her husband, Lars Erik Hauklien accepted an invitation to full-time volunteer for an International Volunteer Organization in Johannesburg, South Africa. For more than ten years Elin has contributed to the production of photographs and videos viewed by millions. Her main areas over the last decade has been production design, concept presentations, set designs, prop fabrication, styling of models and sets, storyboarding, graphic design and digital art for display designs, design and planning for events and tour displays. Elin has over the decade collaborated and worked in teams with local and international creatives and artists while travelling several countries in Africa. She has done training in colour theory and video production and audition training for models. Still Elin Hauklien uses most of her time on volunteering, doing teaching and graphic design.
For the last two years Elin Hauklien has developed her own art series digitally, experimenting and making wood block prints and created paintings and mixed
media art. Currently, through connections with local artists Elin has been inspired and motivated to connect with her artistic glass roots. It has sparked a determination in her to continue to develop her experience and diploma as a
Glasscraftman and to develop contemporary expressive art using up-cycled glass. Beside selling her art on her Norwegian website, you can buy Elin’s art at the Norwegian online Gallery Prikkart.com.
In April 2024, Elin Hauklien was invited for her first group exhibition
arranged by Prikkart.com at Gallery Albin Upp, in Oslo, Norway. Elin was also invited to the South African Glass Safari in Johannesburg in June 2024, where she created a glass sculpture in the series of “Eggstentialism’, in collaboration
with Check artist Emil Cováč. It was exhibited at the exhibition in connection with the Glass Safari, at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria.
Elin Hauklien views herself as an modern expressionist, using organic
shapes, raw lines and animatic characters expressing subjective emotions and observations of life. Through close interaction and collaboration, Elin has been influenced by African art and culture and it has refined and influenced her artistic expression. Elin is known to love people, diverse cultures and languages and she has a craving to understand people on a deeper level. Through a vibrant imagination and intuitive processes, she uses different medias to tell stories of life in a symbolic and simplified way. To Elin, listening and observing her own life and the life of others is essential to having empathy for others, and to build closer connections with others and to increase creativity. Art is not only creating, but connecting to oneself and others on a deeper level.
Organic & Intuitive
'Rough, like life and earthy like the soil, to keep us feel grounded.'
Elin Hauklien defines herself as a modern expressionist in the way she expresses different emotions and stories about life with earthy and emotional undertones and overtones.
Elin often creates concepts related to observations and expressions of human emotions, the conditions of people’s life and motivations for living. Contemporary artists like, Brazilian artist Ciro Fernandes, Mozambican artist Ezequiel Mabote, South African artist William Kentridge, Yayoikusama and classic artists like Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso are among those who motivate and inspire her art.
Symbolic and abstract, black and white or oversaturated combinations, pop art inspired cartoonish animals, motives with humorous undertones, they all describe how Elin expresses her concepts. From childhood Elin has loved patterns and textures and being exposed to the use of patterns in Africa, she has integrated patterns as part of her signature mark. She likes her art to feel raw, hand drawn and organic. Rough, like life and earthy like the soil, to keep us feel grounded.
Unique Prints
Each of the prints will look slightly different and thereby each of them are unique and numbered according. Some of the prints are developed further with water color and oil pastels. These are mono prints, as there is no art piece alike them.
During the years Elin was working with preventative programs, like MOT, for young people in Norway and Namibia, she used art and creativity as ways to connect with and to motivate young people. Storytelling, role plays, drawing, painting, playing and team activities. They have all been tools she has used to encourage young people to express themselves, create positive goals and deal with difficult emotions.
Collaboration
Interaction and collaboration fosters learning, creativity growth and wisdom. Throughout decades Elin has been interacting closely with international and local creatives, designers and artists. This photo was from a collaboration with artist Ezequiel Mabote.
During the African Glass Safari 2024, arranged by Southern African Glass, Tshwane University of Technology and Smelt Glass Elin got the chance to collaborate with several local and international experienced glass artists, like Emíl Cováč, Sarah Begg, Lothar Böttcher, Thato Kokwana and Stephen Mofokeng.