Camilla L. Hill

Copper wire cast in glass. As the glass is heated together with the copper, a chemical reaction occurs: the copper takes on a thin veil of blue-green colour and has undergone a transformation of its own.

I am a dreamer. Sometimes the dreams are so strong that they colour my whole day. The Drømmesil — dream sieve — works grew out of the wish for something that could strain the dreams that follow us into waking life.

Trees carry an inherent power of age and wisdom, and the thought that some trees can live for over a thousand years puts a short human life in perspective. The work represents wisdom, life and Mother Earth.

“Livets tre (deconstructed)” is an installation of more than 250 leaves in different sizes, woven in brass wire. In 2025 the work was reconstructed in a new form.

Fungi belong neither to the animal kingdom nor the plant kingdom, but form a kingdom of their own. They are omnipresent, living all over the earth — around us, in us and with us. We are entirely dependent on them.

U(R)KUNST was a series of three exhibitions shown at Salongen visningsrom in Stavanger in 2022. The aim of the series was to bring the practising artist — and craft as a discipline — to the fore.

In the old tradition of the Forest Finns one finds traces of the vulva sign as a symbol of protection against evil forces. They considered the female power so strong that they carved the sign into doorways and objects — a tradition these pieces carry on in metal.

One of my principal works, “Mitt genetiske anker” (My Genetic Anchor) is a sculptural installation consisting of 1023 hand-woven copper spirals — one for each ancestor across ten generations.

It began with a spiritual exercise: to see, and to anchor, the lines of the people I descend from.