Painters in Dialogue: "The Role of Play in Painting" with Ingrid Toogood og Love Terins

The works of both Ingrid Toogood and Love Terins are bright, enigmatic and for want of a better way to say it; a little bit cheeky. They give off the sense that the artist has had fun making them – whether that may actually be the case or not. This session of painters in dialogue will start by asks these two painters about the role of play in their practices: Is the joviality present in the finished pieces echoed in the process? What does playful experimentation offer their practices? Is it important to find ways of keeping processes of artmaking fresh?

The evening will start with a period to look at the works on show and mingle, before sitting down for informal discussion. Anyone present is welcome to ask questions and comment throughout the session. After the event the organisers will go for a drink and informal conversation nearby, we hope you will join us.

Please note that this conversation will take place in Norwegian.

Ingrid Toogood is educated at KHiO, institute for color (2002). Her latest solo exhibitions include “The Four Chambers,” Tou (2023), “Spending time with my cat,” ISCA Gallery (2021), “Brother and Sister,” KinoKino (2020), “Brist,” Elephant Art Gallery (2018), “You are beautiful. You are alone," Kristiansand Art Gallery (2015), and she participated with the work "L Longed for It" at the opening exhibition of the National Museum in 2022. In 2023 Toogood carried out two large outdoors art projects at Varmen and Schancheholen fire stations in Stavanger.

Love Terins is educated at the Konsthögskolan in Oslo and the Österlenskolan for Konst och Design in Simrishamn. Terin's paintings explore movement, repetition and contrasts. She is particularly interested in the experience of sin that arises in the meeting between the work and consideration, and how the visuality of the measurement has a bodily influence. Motifs alternate between figuration and abstraction, depth and flatness, and measurements appear as a symbiosis of different patterns and color combinations. The visual elements are often inspired by textiles and painterly expressions and print optical illusions of space and movement. Terins has had solo exhibitions at Museet Kraften i Lomma (SE), QB Gallery, Oslo, Heerz Tooya, Veliko Tarnovo (BG) and LNM, Oslo. She has been in group exhibitions at, among others, Hvitsten Salon, Vestby, KÖSK, Oslo, Studio 17, Stavanger, Bygd til By, Fyresdal/Oslo, QB Gallery, Oslo, Galleri Golsa, Oslo and Nitja, Lillestrøm. Terins has also completed a public art commission for Deichman Library in Linderud, Oslo and has been purchased by Norges Bank, Kunst på Arbeidsplassen and Lomma Municipality.

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Painters in Dialogue is conceptualised by Rune Elgaard and Nicholas John Jones. Rune is a visual artist working predominantly with painting. He holds an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Nicholas is an artist and organiser. He holds an MFA in Fine Art Painting from Slade School of Fine Art, London. He is Founder and Director of PRAKSIS (Oslo).