EVA BRÁ BARKARDÓTTIR
Eva Brá Barkardóttir is an Icelandic artist based in London. She has a BA in fashion design from Iceland Academy of the Arts (2012) and an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art (2021). She is a 2020 recipient of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust grant.
The scenes in Eva’s work are half-obscured symbols, warnings and messages. She is interested in how nature functions fundamentally and the interconnectedness of it all, looking for patterns and meanings hidden beyond the directly visible.
Drawing inspiration from dystopian narratives in popular culture, folk tales and mythologies, her work examines imagined ecologies and indecipherable symbols from beyond the veil. Through surreal methods, connections are found and lost again. Eva explores the delicate balance between structure and chaos, transforming failure into rituals of rebirth.
With a background in fashion design, an obsession with textiles and drapery is central to Eva’s practice, which actively engages in the ongoing discourse surrounding femininity and the construction of female identity with work that intersects painting, performance, photography and sculpture.
Eva is the co-founder of inhouse art and Elm as well as being the founder of Anddyri Reykjavík. Inhouse is a curatorial project showcasing early to mid career artists work at True House in London. Elm is a female led floral and horticultural design collective and Anddyri is an experimental pop-up art space. Her work has been acquired by private collectors in England, Iceland and Germany.
