Hanneline Visnes
1972, Bergen, Norway. Lives and works in Glasgow

Rita: Yes, They said he was lying on his back. And with wide open eyes.
Allmers: Open eyes. But quite still?
Rita: Yes, quite still. And then something came and carried him away out. They called it an undertow.
Allmers (nodding slowly): So that was the last they saw of him.
Rita (choked with tears): Yes.
Allmers (in a toneless voice): And never — never will anyone see him again.
Rita (wailing): Day and night he will be before me, as he lay down there.
Allmers: With the wide open eyes.
Rita (Shuddering): Yes, with the wide open eyes. I see them! I see them before me.
Allmers (getting up slowly, looking at her quietly, but with menace): Were they evil, those eyes, Rita?
Rita (turning pale): Evil —!
Allmers (going close up to her): Were they evil eyes that started up? Down there from the deep?
Rita (shrinking back): Alfred —!
Allmers (following): Answer me that! Were they the evil eyes of a child?
— Henrik Ibsen, Little Eyolf


Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway; 2002: Hå gamle
prestegård, Hå kommune, Norway.
Selected group exhibitions: 50a Biennale di Venezia; Isabella Brancolini, Florence; Soft Sun Down, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh; 2002: A hundred flowers, a hundred birds, a hundred children in late spring and early summer, CCA, Glasgow; Hostutstillingen 2002, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; Back to the Future, Stavanger, Kulturhus, Stavanger, Norway; 2001: Hostutstillingen 2001, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; 2000: Hostutstillingen 2000, Art Museum, Bergen; The Department, Intermedia, Glasgow; A Day like any other, Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway/ CCA Glasgow; The Janus Programme, Transmission, Glasgow; The New Generation, Compass, Glasgow.




Peacock, 2003.Size: Aquarelle, 40 x 50 cm.


Milky, 2003. Aquarelle/gouache, 40 x 50 cm. Courtesy Doggerfisher, Edinburgh.