Residency artists and researchers Sculpture, installation art Ville Mäkikoskela Sculptor I graduated as a sculptor from the Institute of Fine Arts at Lahti University of Applied Sciences in 1999. I continued my studies at Taideteollinen korkeakoulu [now the Aalto University School of Art and Design], and graduated from there in 2007. Since 1999 I have my work has featured in many group and shared exhibitions. At the Saari Residence I will prepare works for an exhibition in autumn 2010, which will be my first solo exhibition. The works will be exhibited at Varikko Galleria in Seinäjoki in Southern Ostrobothnia, and at Galleria Huuto in Helsinki. The exhibitions will be held consecutively, first in Seinäjoki and then in Hesinki. For the exhibition I am making small sculptural pieces, mainly of wood. The working title of the exhibition is Oloja ja Tiloja (Feelings and Spaces). The pieces will be like outtakes from a diary, snapshots of feelings captured in a particular moment in a particular space or place. Their focus is my lived and experienced surroundings and architecture. Feelings and transient states of mind affect the form of the works and the spaces they inhabit. In addition to sculptures I am preparing a series of watercolour and felt pen paintings, which are concerned with the same general themes. WWW.VILLEMAKIKOSKELA.FI