Mamta B. Herland
Mamata Baruah Herland was born in the northeast state of Assam in India and moved to Norway in the mid-eighties. Presently she is living in Bærum on the outskirt of Oslo. After several years of university studies in natural sciences and working part-time, she pursued her interest in art and design. She joined visual art studies at the Sydney College of Arts in Australia and later took her Master’s degree from the Faculty of Fine Art at the Winchester College of Art in England. For some time, She had also worked for an Art Magazine company as a graphic designer after studying graphic design in Oslo. In 2006, she established an art gallery, Mamta Gallery, in her local town, Sandvika, near Oslo. The gallery was inaugurated by then Indian Ambassador Mahesh Sachdev and the Mayor of Bærum late Odd Reinfeldt. She ran the gallery for a few years. In her work, she predominantly employs the collaborative medium of digital tools in her various creativity. Among other mediums from numerous art, disciplines are painting, photography, digital print, and video art. Her works have been widely exhibited internationally and represented in several private, public, and corporate collections in Norway and abroad. She allows her artwork to expand into different possible artistic dimensions and genres. Furthermore, she combines digitally created aesthetics with a sense of spirituality and transcendental emotion. It blends the tools and application of computers with an imaginative endeavour, creating a blurred boundary of rationality and magic, reality and dream, and occasionally highlighting the move from the old logic of rationality to a utopian dream society. By employing digital approaches to creativity, she intends for the artworks to evoke a sense of captivation and mysticism.
EDUCATION:
MA, Fine Art, Winchester College of Art, University of Southampton, England
Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Graphic Design, MI, Mercantile Institute, Oslo, Norway
RELEVANT ACTIVITIES:
Head of the Board: BKiB, Artists Association in Bærum, 2007-2010, Norway
Board member: BOA, Visual Artists Organization in Oslo and Akershus 2005-2008
Board member: FAKS, Asker Kunstfag skole, since 2006-2014, Norway
Board member: Bærum Kulturråd, Arts Council Bærum, 2010-2013, Norway
Board member: BKRF, Arts Common Council Bærum, 2007 – 2010, Norway
Jury member: Regional official art exhibition 2006, Galleri Skårer, Norway
Jury member: ‘Levende Landskap’ The Bærum Art Society, 2008, Norway
Jury member: Bærum Arts council’s rep., The culture award 2009, Norway
Jury member: ‘Lyspunkt’ The Bærum Art Society, 2009, Norway
Jury member: ‘Ansikt’, The Bærum Art Society, 2010, Norway
Curator & concept: Norge i Verden, Verden i Norge, Galleri BOA, Oslo, 2006, Norway
Coordinator: The International Crossing 2008, The year of Diversity, Oslo, Norway
MEMBERSHIP:
The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK)
Association of Norwegian Painters (LNM)
Artists’ Centre, Mumbai, India
Awards:
2010, USA, New York, Museum of Computer Art, Digitalism III
2007, Norway, Bærum Kommunes Kunstpris
2005, USA, Los Angeles/Pomona, Call to Arts! Summit V, Best of Show Award