Passings by

The exhibition Passings by presents new woodcuts, reunions with older woodcuts, and figures from earlier woodcuts. The starting point for the works in the exhibition is that moment when you pass someone, register the event without stopping, continue on your way, and all that remains is a quietly passing feeling of an encounter. The starting point for the works in the exhibition is that moment when you pass someone, register the event without stopping, continue on your way, and all that remains is a quietly passing feeling of an encounter. Sometimes it is déjà vu. Our everyday lives are full of these small, shared expressions and moments. In several works I depict passersby as seen through a window or a curtain. In other works the focus rests on a still, delicate moment. In the work Passersby there is a group sharing a common unknown destination towards which they travel.

All works in the exhibition are unique oil-colour woodcuts, carved into birch plywood and hand-printed by rubbing onto Japanese gampi paper.

For the past ten years I have been working intensively with woodcut printmaking. I have been searching for my own expression, my way of making woodcuts, and testing scale and modes of presentation. My woodcuts move in the borderland between printmaking and painting. I often roll all the colours onto the same printing block and hand-print a unique woodcut onto paper by rubbing.

Noora Nio-Juss (b. 1976 in Helsinki) completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, majoring in painting, in 2017. Noora Nio-Juss (b. 1976 in Helsinki) completed her Master of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki, majoring in painting, in 2017. Noora Nio-Juss has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Finland and abroad. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at tm•galleria 2026, Forum Box 2023, Turku Art Hall 2021, Galleria Sculptor 2020 and Tallinn Art Hall gallery 2019. She was awarded the William Thuring Prize in 2021 and was nominated for the Norwegian Queen Sonja Print Award in 2020. Noora is a member of the Finnish Painters’ Union and the Finnish Woodcut Society. Works are held in the collections of the Finnish National Gallery, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, the City of Mänttä, Tampere Art Museum, HUS, and in private collections.

Thanks to the Arts and Culture Agency for supporting the work and the exhibition.
The exhibition has received support from the Finnish Heritage Agency.