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MORTEN SLETTEMEÅS

Morten Slettemeås was born in 1975. He grew up in Gvarv in Telemark. He now lives and works in Oslo. Slettemeås is educated at Einar Granum's Art School, 1996-1998 and the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, 1999-2003.

Slettemeås works with painting that alternates between the figurative and the abstract, with references both to art history, contemporary events and popular culture. By using his own ideas and experiences and putting them in context with international events, the work appears as a personal story telling. Several works are inspired by the tradition of landscape painters in Telemark, combined with impulses from the globalized world.

Morten Slettemeås is considered to be a resilient colorist, with his expressive and colorful paintings, often in large format.

He has shown his works in, among others, Kunsthall Grenland, Telemark Art Museum, Bomuldfabriken in Arendal, Lillehammer Art Museum, Haugar Art Museum, Sørlandets Art Museum, Stavanger Art Museum and Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di San Luis Potosi and il Museo de Chancelleria in Mexico. Slettemeås has been purchased by among others, Sørlandet's Art Museum, Malmø Art Museum and the Norwegian Cultural Council. In addition, he is represented in private collections in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Mexico

JO DENNIS

Jo Dennis (b. 1973, UK) is a British artist based in London. Her practice spans two decades, working across painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Dennis is interested in the emotional potential created through the interaction of form, material and colour. Her works occupy a space between construction and collapse, architecture and ruin, navigating the relationship between the physical world and psychological experience.

Dennis received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2022) and her BA in Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory from Goldsmiths College, London (2002). Recent exhibitions include Never the Straightest Path (solo), Belenius, Stockholm (2026); The Long Now, Saatchi Gallery, London (2025–26); A Letter to My Daughter (solo), Carvalho, New York (2025); Glass of Absinthe (solo), JO-HS Gallery, Mexico City (2025); and David Zwirner PLATFORM, curated by Elisabeth Johs (2025).

Dennis is a recipient of The Hopper Prize (2025) and Arts Council England funding (2023–24). She is the co-founder of several artist-led projects including Pigeon Park (2021–22), Peckham 24 Photo Festival (2016–22), AMP Gallery (2015–18), and Asylum Chapel (2010–present). She collaborated with Sid Motion Gallery on five solo projects (2017–2023), including the launch of her artist's book, I Touched This With My Hand, I Touched That With My Eye (2020), with an essay by David Campany.

Her work was recently included in The Book of Ladders: 100 Contemporary Art Works, edited by Paul Carey-Kent and Adeline de Monseignat (2023), and Site Specific (Tall Poppy Press, 2023). Dennis is a trustee of the Artists' General Benevolent Institution.