
Jenni Rope
Piilopaikka, 2020
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
180 x 190 cm/70.87 x 74.80 inches
Jenni Rope
Maanalainen, 2020
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
150 x 140 cm/59.06 x 55.12 inches
Jenni Rope
Mobile 5, 2018
Polystyrene, acrylic, fishing line and brass screw
133 x 46 x 5 cm/52.36 x 18.11 x 1.97 inches
Jenni Rope
Taukoamaton (Incessant), 2018
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
30 x 35 cm / 11.81 x 13.78 inches
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Jenni Rope
Sade (Rain), 2018
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
30 x 35 cm / 11.81 x 13.78 inches
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Jenni Rope
Pauhu 3 (Rumble 3), 2018
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
30 x 25 cm / 11.81 x 9.84 inches
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Jenni Rope
Pauhu 2 (Rumble 2), 2018
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
25 x 25 cm / 9.84 x 9.84 inches
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Jenni Rope
Ruoho kasvoi (The Grass Grew), 2018
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
60 x 50 cm / 23.62 x 19.69 inches
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Jenni Rope
Utelias vihreä (Curious Green), 2018
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
90 x 60 cm / 35.43 x 23.62 inches
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Jenni Rope
Nurkan takana (Around the Corner), 2018
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
100 x 90 cm / 39.37 x 35.43 inches
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Jenni Rope
Tähtiä ja pölyä 2 (Stars and Dust 2), 2018
Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
35 x 30 cm / 13.78 x 11.81 inches
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Image: Aleksi Poutanen
Jenni Rope (b. 1977) is a versatile artist who also works as a print designer and creator of art books and public artworks. Originally trained as a graphic designer, Rope has designed prints for clients including Marimekko. She is the founder of flipbook publisher Napa Books, and she has created visuals for art and picture books for WSOY, Etana Editions, and Rooftop Press. Her public artworks can be viewed at the Helsinki University Library (Kaisa House) and the Kalasatama Health and Wellbeing Center in Helsinki. She is the 2016 winner of the Finnish Art Society’s William Thuring Prize.
Rope’s organic forms evoke impressions of human life, plants and natural phenomena, sometimes combined human-made structures. Rope is intrigued by synesthetic fusions of images, sounds, and words. She sees movements of wind and water captured in her brushwork and imagines whispering, rustling, and rumbling sounds flowing from the canvas. Movement is a key element also in her mobiles, which sway gently in a meditative rhythm. In their emphatic spatiality, these floating, spinning creations are the perfect companions to Rope’s paintings. They are like three-dimensional ever-fluctuating paintings that can be viewed from 360°.