page_title: Siri Aurdal
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caption_attribution_description: English: Siri Aurdal ONDA VOLANTE 2017 Venice Biennale. The Nordic Pavillion by architect Sverre Fehn. Photo: Marco Pannaggi. Norsk bokmål: Siri Aurdal ONDA VOLANTE 2017 Venezia Biennalen. Den Nordiske Paviljong tegnet av arkitekt Sverre Fehn. Foto: Marco Pannaggi.
context_page_description: Siri Aurdal is a Norwegian painter, graphic designer, and sculptor. She comes from an artistic family with parents textile artist Synnøve Anker Aurdal and painter Leon Aurdal. Ludvig Eikaas was her stepfather from 1959.
  Although Aurdal is both a graphic designer and painter, her main field was sculpture and work with sculpture. She made her debut at the Høstutstillingen 1961 with a bust of Egil Eggen in brass. After that, she made a number of other busts of famous people, including Earle Hyman and Svend von Düring and Ludvig Eikaas.
  In February 1969, she won an competition to decorate schools in Oslo, and in October 1972 presented the sculpture "Havbølger" at Trosterud skole. It was 12 × 6 m glass fibre tubes cut in wavy shapes which serves as a play sculpture for 100 children.
  In 1979, she made a large relief in aluminium for Abelhaugen train station in Oslo.
context_section_description: Siri Aurdal (born 20 October 1937 in Oslo) is a Norwegian painter, graphic designer, and sculptor. She comes from an artistic family with parents textile artist Synnøve Anker Aurdal and painter Leon Aurdal. Ludvig Eikaas was her stepfather from 1959.
  Although Aurdal is both a graphic designer and painter, her main field was sculpture and work with sculpture. She made her debut at the Høstutstillingen 1961 with a bust of Egil Eggen in brass. After that, she made a number of other busts of famous people, including Earle Hyman (1963) and Svend von Düring and Ludvig Eikaas (1965).
  In February 1969, she won an competition to decorate schools in Oslo, and in October 1972 presented the sculpture "Havbølger" at Trosterud skole. It was 12 × 6 m glass fibre tubes cut in wavy shapes which serves as a play sculpture for 100 children.
  In 1979, she made a large relief in aluminium for Abelhaugen train station in Oslo.
caption: Siri Aurdal ONDA VOLANTE 2017 Venice Biennale. The Nordic Pavilion by architect Sverre Fehn. Photo: Marco Pannaggi.
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