Ýr

Ýr has been working independently as textile- designer and artist since 2012 and is also one of the co-founders of the multi-art collective CGFC.

Ýr‘s work comes mostly through experimental textile techniques on second hand knits, playing with humor, the human body and characterization while raising the conversation of our textile consumption.

Ýrúrarí's work has been sold to various Museum collections and can be found in The National Museums of Scotland, Textiel Museum(NL), Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe(GER), Internation Folk Museum(USA) and The Museum of Design and Applied Arts(IS). Pieces have also been exhibited at Reykjavík Art Museum, Nordatlantens brygge (DK), Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Risör Kunstpark (NO) and Gallerý Port (ICE). Custom made and sold pieces to artist such as Erykah Badu, Noel Fielding, Miley Cyrus, Tierra Whack and more.

Rebekka

Rebekka Ashley is a product designer that graduated from the Icelandic University of the Arts. Her projects are often on the border of design and visual arts, dancing somewhere in between. Each project shares a common thread, the utilization of non-traditional materials and giving life back to the discarded and disused.

Some of her works include weaving with discarded power cables, a sustainable sculpture in the Czech Republic, a sofa crafted for Icelandair from defective computer bags and reusable packaging for Spjara made from sail scraps. The last one received a nomination for Bláskelin in 2021, an environmental recognition by the Minister of Environment, Energy, and Climate for reducing plastic use. Rebekka operates her studio, studiorasley, in Hafnarhúsið, Reykjavík. For more information visit www.studiorasley.com