Guðrún Margrét A. Jóhannsdóttir (b.1971)
Designer
Languages Icelandic, English, Spanish, Danish
Skills Moldmaking & Casting, Drawing, Making prototypes, Bespoke Shoemaker (Shoe design/pattern making), Knitter, Crocher, Braiding & Macramé, Ceramics, Stylist, Raw Food Chef & Healer.
Education
2020-2021 – Yoga Teacher at Jogastudio, Reykjavik
2019 - Bespoke Shoemaking 3 months apprenticeship with Saskia Wittmer, Florence, Italy
2019 - Icelandic University of the Arts, Diploma in Art Education, Reykjavik
2016-2018 - Icelandic University of the Arts, MA in Design, Reykjavik
2004-2005 - The Art Academy of Aarhus, Ceramic, Aarhus, Denmark
1999 - Escuela Masana, Industrial Design, Barcelona, Spain
1997-2001 - The Icelandic College of Art and Crafts/Iceland Academy of the Arts, Sculpture
1993-1994 - Industrial Design, The Industrial School of Hafnafjord
1987-1991 - Secondary School Qualification the College of Sund
Projects / Exhibitions
2023 – 901 Licence. Designed and handmade shoes from reindeer hides. Exhibited at 38 Þrep at DesignMarsh
- Leather-swimsuit made with coiling method and sandals cut with lazer. Exhibited at the Textil Museum in Blönduós
2021 – performing in the window at Rammagerðin on DesignMarsh for the ceramic association
2020 - The Garlic-Grater-olive-oil-bowl, Ceramic tool and bowl in one crockery. Now available in Rammagerdin, Skolavordustig 12
2019 - The Garlic-Grater-olive-oil-bowl, Ceramic Tool and bowl in one crockery. On Karolina Fund Aug-Sept. The goal smashed!
-The dancer in the music video Dolores Del Rio. Dolores Del Rio is the 5th LP in Les Adventures De President Bongo series. Artist: Local Product /Les Adventures De President Bongo. Video on Vimeo.
-Interior design on the restrooms in Bar Sircus in Seyðisfjord in collaboration with Stephan Stephensen. Owner Sigríður Guðlaugsdóttir, Sigga Boston. Iceland
2018 - Charcoal making with preparatory students in The Technical College of Iceland.
- ‘Supplement’ performance. Ephemeral supplement to the architecture of the school building and glasses made from cucumbers. Icelandic University of the Arts, Reykjavik
- ‘Let’s be in touch’ performance ‘You must turn your live inside out’ Rudolf Steiner, Icelandic University of the Arts, Reykjavik
2017-2018 - REIKI encounter, A Rendezvous, graduating piece. Installation / performance where the human impetus is believed to be the core of all design. Distant healing is the tool used and the energy balance that happens within the human is the core design. Gerða Museum
2016-2017 - ‘Moistures Status’ performance. Speculation about how to establish a ritual. Icelandic University of the Arts, Reykjavik
2017 - ‘I am a Nobel prize winner. Video installation. Icelandic University of the Arts, Reykjavik
2016 - ‘A desire to cry’ performance. Icelandic University of the Arts, Reykjavik
2016 - The tanner, an experiment to tan a lambskin for several weeks, Icelandic University of the Arts, Reykjavik
2014 - ‘The Blue Set’ Social porcelain for dessert and happy occasions. Produced in Portugal, NG Oficinas de Porcelanas, Aveiro, Portugal 2008 - NO. 8 Collaborative exhibition, industrial felted bags by finallygudrunmargret, Barcelona, Spain
2007 – designed a Raku oven for the children in the Waldorf school, Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 - The Garlic-Grater-olive-oil-bowl, ceramic tool, and bowl in one crockery. Made in The Art Academy in Aarhus, Ceramic Department, Denmark
- ‘Here is the positive side of you belly button’, performance, Ceramic department of The Art Academy of Aarhus
- Exposiccio Colectiva, Konuverk-ur: Women-artwork-pain, porcelain mugs made from casting numerous women breasts with plaster, Escuela Da’Vinci, Barcelona, Spain
- Real Icelandic Caramel ‘Brjóstsykur’ and business card made from fine France porcelain. C / Jupí 3, open workshop in Barcelona, Spain
2002 - Eatable candy bag, made from rice starch filled with dry fruits and stamped with wild berry extract, Barcelona, Spain
2001 - Series of things: ’One size fits all’, ‘Things’, ‘The Dictionary to survive in Spain’
2000 - Food curtains, and ‘One size fits all’ BA graduation project and cucumber glasses with a cocktail for the guests.
2000 - ‘One size fits all’ collective design exhibition Mót, Kjarvalstadir museum. Curators; Katrín Ólína and Micheal Young. Reykjavik
1999 - ‘El coche’, ‘The car’ toy made of wood with elastic energy.
- ‘El gusano’, ‘The worm’, wooden/linen toy. For age 4-99. Escuela Masana, Barcelona, Spain
1999 - Bomo an environmentally friendly caravan 1:1, hypothetically fuelled with hydrogen. Bomobil, competition from “The Mobil Dwelling” in Stockholm, The City of Europe 1998.
An environmentally friendly caravan and a co-operative project that spanned half of the sculpture studies. Driven on the street of Drottingagatan in Stockholm and in the Technical University of Gothenburg. Followed with exhibitions and lectures in both places and won first prize for the most practical solution. Stockholm, Sweden
1998 - Bomobil, an environmentally friendly caravan 1:1, hypothetically fuelled with hydrogen.
An environmentally friendly caravan and a co-operative project. First exposed on the beach of Nauthól and exhibited in the city hall of Reykjavik, Iceland
-The Cowboy Niz, a short movie shown on the outside wall of Húsi Verslunarinnar. Collaborated with Harry Johannsson and Bjarni Einarsson. Manuscript by Harry and Bjarni. Cameraman; Bjarni and artistic and creative director Guðrún Margrét
1997 - ‘Find your Mythic path’. Two performances; ‘Here are the positive of your belly bottom for only 20.000 liras’ and Ýmis ideas (from North Mythologic)
- ‘ICON’ a performance with fish oil, stock fish and seaweed. La Fratta, Toscana, Italy
1999 - ‘The twilight zone’. A private exhibition in the student gallery of The Icelandic College of the Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik, Iceland
- ‘The first sound of life’ exhibited in the Black Box in Laugarnes, AUI, Reykjavik, Iceland
1994 - ‘The Bench’ / ‘Food Love & Romance’ / ‘The Candleholder’. Exhibited in Gallery Port in Hafnafjord and Digranes College of Kopavog
Prizes
1998 - Bomobil ’98 environmentally friendly caravan. 1st prize. “The Dwelling Mobil”, Stockholm, Sweden1996 - X-18 Shoe design competition, 1st prize. Hotel Island, Reykjavik, Iceland
1994 - ‘The Bench’ 3rd prize. Competition in the Industrial College of Hafnafjord, Reykjavik, Iceland
Seminars and courses
2016 - REIKI II, Reikimaster Guðrún Óladóttir
-Raw-food with Kate Magic, Kjalarnesi, Iceland
2014 - Trancendental Meditation, Íhugunarfélg Íslands, Reykjavik, Iceland
2013 - Konur til athafna, Gyðja Sigrún Lilja, Kopavogi, Iceland
-Bespoke shoemaking, rand sewing with carreducker.com London, England
2011 - Bespoke shoemaking and pattern making with paulthomasshoes.com London, England
2010 - Pattern making in bespoke shoemaking with Carlas Punyol, Barcelona, Spain
2009-2010 - Bespoke shoemaking with pity, Josep Cunillera, Barcelona, Spain
2004 - REIKI I, Aarhus, Denmark
1997 - ‘Find your Mythic path’. Two performances; ‘Here are the positive of your belly bottom for only 20.000 liras’.
And Ýmis ideas (from North Mythologic)
And ‘ICON’ a performance with fish oil, stock fish and seaweed, La Fratta, Toscana, Italy
Lectures
1999 - Bomobil ’98 environmentally friendly caravan, “The Dwelling Mobil”, The Technical University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Work experience
2019-2020 - The Garlic-Grater-olive-oil-bowl, Ceramic Tool and bowl in one crockery. Produced in Portugal
2019 - Rehearsing-teaching, dans and theatre, 4-9th graders in Kársnes College, Kopavogur
2018 - Rehearsing-teaching with preparatory students in the Technical College of Reykjavik.
2017-2019 - Reiki healing, self-employed.
2014-2019 - @finallygudrunmargret Bespoke leather bags, design and sewn by @finallygudrunmargret
2009-2011 - Bespoke shoemaking workshop in Gracia, Barcelona, Spain
2007-2009 - Ceramic workshop in c/ Jupí 3, Barcelona, Spain
2001-2011 - Barcelona Reykjavik organic bakery. Co-designer, Barcelona, Spain
1999-2000 - Illumine designer, the felted Reindeer earmuffs, and the “One size fits all” felted slippers at Bespoke, Icelandic fashion design company, Reykjavik
1998-1999 - Assistant chef at Næstu Grösum, vegetarian restaurant, Reykjavik
1997 - Assistant chef at Grænum Kosti, vegetarian restaurant, Reykjavik