Baldvin Ringsted (b. 1974) was born and raised in Akureyri but lives and works in Scotland. He holds a Master’s degree from the Glasgow School of Art (2007) and previously studied at the Akureyri Art School and Lahti Polytechnic School of Art. Hehas exhibited his work widely internationally and was recently awarded second prize at the Scottish Landscape Awards for his artwork Delug

In the exhibition Hversdagsland / Domestiscape, Baldvin Ringsted presents a new series of works utilizing found cross-stitch embroideries to construct a new landscape. Baldvin is fascinated by the narrative power of everyday objects and their capacityto hold memories and past events from people's lives. By grafting these fragments together into a unified composition, he breathes new life into them and transforms the familiar into an unfamiliar world.

The works were mostly produced in Scotland but completed in Iceland in the run-up to the exhibition. Among the standardized pictures of familiar motifs, one can discern both Scottish and Icelandic imagery.

Baldvin approaches his visual compositions much like a composer writing a musical score—establishing a structured "script" that leaves little to pure chance, yet thrives on the tension between rigorous composition and the spontaneity of the materials. This creative practice is deeply rooted in his formative years within the punk and heavy metal scenes of the 80s and 90s in Akureyri, where he first realized how closely music, imagery, and auditory memory intertwine.

While high craftsmanship and technical skill are essential to the artist, the inclusion of found objects allows him to bridge the gap between creative execution and lived experience. Baldvin views the artworks both as monuments to past memories andbygone times, and as a new world for the viewer to step into. The resulting pieces are designed to be aesthetically captivating at first glance, while offering a deeply engaging conceptual layer for those who wish to look closer.