Hanne Margaretha Biedilæ is a Norwegian ceramic and visual artist based in Fredrikstad, Norway. She is educated in Denmark and Norway. Her works has a wide range and includes ceramic sculptures, objects, installations, paintings on canvas or paper from small to large sizes and works on large canvas in mixed media technique. She uses social contexts as inspiration for her works of art and the expression can be both figurative and abstract. Hanne have worked in her own workshop/studio and run different galleries alone and in multiple art collectives since 2006. She has curated exhibitions for other artists and herself, and been a member of the exhibition committee of various art societies in Norway. Hanne hold interactive art courses for public services, private companies and private individuals in techniques as ceramics, paint and drawing.
Hanne M. Biedilæ’s artworks are a mix of figurative and abstraction being influenced by the complex relationship between humans and the surrounding world, and she capture these emotions and thoughts through ceramic sculptures, objects, drawings and paintings.
A lot of her artworks are based on human connectivity to social contexts or nature.
A main concept that she approach is the feminine universe She explore the definition of femininity and the surrounding expectation to the «eternal feminine- eternal youth» and the femininity as an object.
Biedilæ is fascinated by emotions and uses her inner voice as well as she upheld a social conscious-ness, so that the emotions, thoughts, dreams and struggle she express, experiences universally.
Her paintings are often colourful with expressive or powerful brushstrokes and her ceramics work are often without glaze, minimalistic glazed or with acrylic painting, stains or organic medium.