Santtu Laine
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Santtu Laine is a Finnish multidisciplinary artist based in Helsinki. He works with installation, sculpture, images, and sound, often exploring themes of memory and its inherent ambiguity. His art practice focuses on alternative and sustainable methods of creation, combining various techniques and materials to continually seek new forms of expression. Santtu holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Time and Space Arts from The Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki and a Bachelor of Arts in Photography from BTK University of Art & Design, Berlin.
During his Sculpting Futures Residency, Santtu will develop bioplastic from Loch Long seaweed as material for sculpture.
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- Santtu Laine, Sculpting Futures: Ecologies in the Making Residency 2023, developing bioplastic from Loch Long seaweed as material for sculpture (photography, Alan Dimmick).
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- Santtu Laine, Sculpting Futures: Ecologies in the Making Residency 2023, developing bioplastic from Loch Long seaweed as material for sculpture (photography, Alan Dimmick).
Created in 2021, the Ecologies in the Making: Sculpting Futures programme was developed by the Academy of Fine Arts Uniarts Helsinki, Cove Park and Scottish Sculpture Workshop.
These residencies are designed to focus upon making practices at a time of climate breakdown and are aimed at MFA alumni of the Academy of Fine Arts, particularly those with sculptural methods or material processes. The programme is divided into two parts: artists spend 8 weeks at Cove Park in Argyll and Bute, followed by 8 weeks at Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire.
The project is made possible by a donation to Uniarts Helsinki from the Saastamoinen Foundation.
