Further Information

The Poetry book Daughter of the Drápa - Poems from the Deep by artist Gunnhildur Thordardottir is ready to be printed and will be available in all major bookshops at the end of November with your donation.

Gunnhildur receiving poetry awards in 2019.

The author completed BA (Hons) Art & Art history at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University in England and graduated in 2003 and with an MA in Arts Management in 2006 from same university. Furthermore Gunnhildur completed a diploma in Arts Education from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2019.
The author has always self -published her poetry books in limited quantities and often released along with exhibitions however this poetry book is being published by Sæmundur Publisher.
The book is ready digitally but will be introduced with a release party in early November at the Bókakaffi in Ármúli if the fundraising will be successful.

Gunnhildur and her husband Douglas Arthur Place with products by RePlace

Gunnhildur has been an active artist since graduation in 2003 and worked for museums and for The Icelandic Visual Artists Association (SÍM) as a project manager for the artist in residence program and the Month of Visual Art and on the board of their committee. She has held many solo exhibitions at Reykjanes Art Museum, the Icelandic Printmaking Association gallery (IPA), The SÍM Gallery, Gallery Flora, Gallery Box, Suðsuðvestur and in Cambridge, UK and Copenhagen. She has also taken part in numerous combined exhibitions in Iceland at Hafnarborg, Nordic House, National Gallery of Iceland, the East Heritage Museum and also taken part in combined exhibitions abroad at Tate Britain UK, the Scandinavian Art Centre Boston USA and many printmaking exhibitions in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, USA and UK. Gunnhildur ran a mobile art gallery in her car for few years which took part in many festivals in Iceland and a poetry project called Skáldaskápur where young poets from Suðurnes read their poems in events. Furthermore Gunnhildur started Reykjanes Art School in 2021. She works as a language, art and textile teacher at Myllubakkaskóli in Keflavík and has four boys and one girl with her English husband and together they run an artist program called RePlace which makes sustainable art products.

The art work Fragment from the exhibition with the same title at the Little Gallery in Hafnarfjördur in February 2023.

The art work Blood Flow from the exhibition Fragments at the Little Gallery in Hafnarfjördur in February 2023.

Gunnhildur working at the Icelandic Printmaking Association.

Here are previously published books by the author Bloodstones published in 2013, DIY Poetry 2014, Night Poems 2015, Street Poems 2017 and The Beginning - Seasonal Poems 2019.