Her artistic work has intertwined around recycled textile material for over thirty years.

Her work addresses ecological and gender issues, women’s work and everyday life aesthetics. She has pioneered in several sectors of art concerning the use of recycled textile material in contemporary textile art.

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PhD dissertation: Recycled Materials in Contemporary Textile Art, Interpretations of Recycled Textile Material in the Light of Womanhood and the Everyday Life, was the first practice led research dissertation in textile art in Finland in the year 2008, in which she introduced the phenomenological and hermeneutical approaches in research with the attitude of everyday life research. In this respect she has been an actor who introduces new methods and ideas among the discipline.  

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One of the most significant features concerning the artwork of hers has been the studio

community work In Harakka Island on the coast of Helsinki, Finland, administered by the City of Helsinki Cultural Office, where she has had an chance to work in interaction with other artists for 30 years.

 

Nowadays 2024 she works as an art pedagogue and has a studio in the seaside town of Hanko
near Helsinki.

 

Her activity around the area of art and design is wide ranging from organizing exhibitions, conferences, art organization activities to research. Among which is the research period / teaching 1998-2008 in the University of Art and Design, Department of Textile Design Helsinki, Honorable mention from the Finnish Design 10th Anniversary exhibition, Northern Fibre I organizing group 1996, the first Textile Art workshop in Nordic Countries.

Positions of trust: The Finnish Association of Designers ORNAMO, Art Section, chair(wo)man 2011-13; NNCA Nordic Network of Craft Associations, representative of Finland 2011-13, The Textile Artists Association of Finland TEXO, chair(wo)man 1998-2000.