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Sündinud / Born 1955
Drawings by Jarõna Ilo are suitable both to illustrate a school textbook and to be displayed in an exhibition hall. She is not too picky at minor details and scientific, but she does select her motifs from strangely concealed places that are quite odd for an artist to visit. Ilo has also suppressed colours which are so characteristic to nature and that should certainly inspire and enchant an artist. We may feel that the picture, being offered to us by Ilo, has pauperized its object, has tarnished it. But still Ilo is the most exact and honest one. She is an artist who is able to concentrate on the most significant, who possesses a strange emphatic ability that does not start attacking the already existing figures, but is trying to find their nature. For the natural world a deer on a meadow is just a contingency. Ilo digs into details, finding both the joy of drawing and meaningful challenges. The form in series gives us the hint that Ilo does not work spontaneously, but in a systematic manner, gradually, without giving up. And at a certain moment these works start to form a meditative line. By digging herself into the details of nature, Ilo also sets into rhythm her personal perception of the world.
EDUCATION
1974 Technical School of Industrial Graphics, Kiev, Ukraine
1978 – 1979 Prague Film Academy, Czechoslovakia (photo)
1981 Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
WORK EXPERIENCE
1980 – 1981 Graphic Designer in factory “Desintegraator”, Tallinn
1981 – 1987 Professor at the Chair of Drawing, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
1991 – 1997 author and implementer of over 30 children’s programs in Estonian
Television
1989 – 2003 teacher of drawing, Old Town Educational College, Tallinn
2000 – 2003 teacher of drawing, didactics of drawing, painting, composition,
Eurouniversity
2001 – 2003 teacher of drawing, College of Applied Arts, Tallinn
since 2002 artist, gardener, landscape architect Kveven Fjelmuseum, Sirdal, Norway
since 2003 teacher of drawing, Viljandi Culture Academy (part of Tartu University, Estonia)
since 2003 teacher of drawing, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2004 teacher of drawing, National University of Australia, Canberra
since 2005 teacher of drawing, Open Academy, Tallinn
1988 Member of Estonian Artists’ Association
AWARDS
1984 – 1987 scholarship of the Artists’ Association, Moscow USSR
1985 diploma from the Baltic Book Triennal, Vilnius (illustrations of
C. Collodi’s “Pinocchio”)
2005 cultural scholarship, Sirdal, Norway
2006 Estonian Association of Advertisement Producers – The Bronze Egg
(illustration)
2007 "Important things" (illustration). The 25 best books of Estonia
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
1987 City Gallery, Tallinn
1988 Tartu School of Arts
1989 Cinema House, Tallinn
1992, 1995, 1997, 2004 Cultural Centre of Tonstand, Norway
1991, 1995 Draakon Gallery, Tallinn
1993 Sinness school, Sirdal, Norra
1997, 2002 Tallinn Music House
1998, 2001, 2002, 2003 Kloostri Ait Restaurant, Tallinn
1999, 2001 Kveven Museum, Sirdal, Norra
2002 Vip Gallery, Stavanger, Norra
2003, 2004 Court of Masters, Tallinn
2004 Art Café, Rakvere
2004 Viljandi Culture Academy
2004, 2006 Asbjorn Gallery, Kongsvinger, Norway
2004 Printmedia Gallery, National University of Australia,
Canberra
2005 Kondas Centre, Viljandi
2005, 2006, 2007 Haus Gallery, Tallinn
2006 City Gallery, Viljandi
2007 Womens studies, Tallinn University, Estonia
2008 Kirsten Kjaers Museum, Denmark
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1986 Nuremberg, Germany
1988 Helsinki, Finland
2001 Riga, Latvia
2005 drawing exhibition of Estonian Academy of Arts in Paris
2006 International Drawing Exhibition, Tallinn Art Hall
2007 Exhibition of Estonian Art Union, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
WALL PAINTINGS FOR INTERIOR
2004 Cafe in Musical House, Tallinn, Estonia
2005 Cafe "Saiakäik", Town Hall Square, Tallinn, Estonia
Italian shop "Delicia", Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Cafe "Pierre", Tartu, Estonia
2007 Office of "Gildi Kinnisvara", Estonia
2008 Cafe "Josephine Baker", Tallinn, Estonia
2006 - 2007 5 workshops at Katarina Gild, Tallinn, Estonia
PRINTED WORKS
1985 C.Collodi’s “Pinocchio” (illustrations)
1985 – 1990 magazine «Täheke» (“Starlet”), « Põhjatäht » (“North Star”) (illustrations)
1990 – 1992 magazine « Pilt ja Sõna » (“Picture and Word”) (illustrations)
1995 – 1999 calendars
1990 – 2000 computer study program “Art Materials and Their Usage”
2002 “Stories of Sirdal” (illustrations), Kveven Museum, Norway
2002 I.Ojala’s “At the Sun’s Hour” (illustrations), Tallinn
2003 – 2005 newspaper Eesti Ekspress (illustrations)
2007 Piia Ausman "The important things" (illustrations), Estonia
2008 Piia Ausman "The Kaptens discovering the world" (illustrations), Estonia
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Estonian Museum of Art, Tartu Toy Museum, Sirdal Commune, Sinness school, Oksendall school, Tonstand school (Norway), private collections in Estonia, Finland, Norway, France, Russia, Czech Republic, Australia, USA, Denmark.