About

Name: Rannvá Holm Mortensen
Born: 1950
Awards & Recognition: M.A. Jacobsen’s Award for literature in 2018 for her poetry collection “Sólsmakkur” (Sprotin, 2018).

Rannvá is a poet and versatile visual artist. She is self–taught, but took part in Metáfora International Workshop in Barcelona in 2013/2014. Her art ranges from paintings, prints, installations and text to sculptures. In recent years, she has also worked with textile, writing, book illustration and interior decoration. Her subjects are often rendered in organic shapes and human forms in lush green underwater worlds, and many of her collages convey an element of social politics. Rannvá Mortensen regularly exibits in the Faroe Islands and internationally. In 2008 an artbook about her work was published by The Faroese Art Museum. In 2018 Rannvá made her debut with the poetry collection Sólsmakkur  (Sprotin) and her second collection Vármjólk was published in 2022. Sólsmakkur has been translated into English and published in the US.

Work list

2022 - Vármjólk, poetry collection, Sprotin
2018 - Sólsmakkur, poetry collection, Sprotin

Translations

2023 - Suntaste/Sólsmakkur, IPI Press