Tine Frich Møller
Tine Frich Møller is a multidisciplinary artist, painter, writer, and educator in Norway. At core, she is humbled and puzzled by life, by people and all their worldly complexities - and in the midst of this, she thinks of her selves as an explorer, a people-traveller or a hoarder of people and their life stories and a thinker-doer. She received a MA from University of St. Andrews in 1996/99 and has a diverse working background ranging from investment banking, technology management to working as an analyst in the Norwegian armed forces. For the past decade she has several years of experience as an editor and co-owner of a publishing house and managing her own art studio, and aside from her art practice she is the current Dean of Nydalen Kunstskole in Oslo.
Praxis Statement
The realm of affect is the in-between, the ephemeral, and serves as an essential aspect of my art practice, along with that explorations and chance. As a painter, writer, and explorer at heart, objects of art may come to fruition trough my praxis, but they are not the end point perse, rather; objects that materialize serve more as agents or entry point for what I desire to construe; an invisible but somehow tangible connection. A connection of something shared of being in the world, sometimes more as a commentary on the state of present events. As a painter, I seek to balance the desire to work both on an immediate and figurative level, and more abstract and profound. In general, I look to capture greater or smaller moments of time. That of presence or absence, and sometimes of just being and of surprise. The latter, as my work, will sometimes entail random arrangements or assemblages. Diminutive interventions in unexpected places, just to let the world know that somebody was just here.
Research Interest
The focal point of my creative research is to investigate the temporary affects, the invisible, sometimes transformative events which occur “in between” art experience and art creation, how materialised objects of art might add or extract to the notion of connection through art experience. The art school and its ongoing activities, providing a fertile habitat for explorations and reflective praxis. At the art school we take pride in allowing mature students to explore art and develop their own artistic voice, but perhaps equally important to emerge more grounded and whole.