Linda Sim Solay
Linda Sim Solay is a Swedish-Austrian artist, currently living in Jerusalem, Israel. Her practice in fine art photography and installation focuses on psychological and philosophical evolutionary thematics and contemporary science. Her work is orientated around shaping audience-internal atmosphere, spiritual proximation and potential for perceptive immersion.
After earning her BA in Media Arts from RMIT University Melbourne in 2005 majoring in Fine Art Photography under Dr. Les Walkling, she completed in 2012 her MA at Goldsmiths College London/Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore, of which her research on the use of scent in contemporary art has earned her the Golden Key Asia-Pacific Postgraduate Award as well as the Lasalle Scholarship. Furthermore she was award twice the GK Visual & Performing Arts Achievement Award; once for the installation "Timensions" which thematically explores current models in Quantum Physics and String Theory; developed in collaboration with Dario Lombardi and the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the University of Singapore, and secondly for her multi-sensory installation "Continuum of Consciousness" centred around sentient awareness of perpetual reality, exhibited at the Institut Francais Bandung, Indonesia. Linda has exhibited extensively both in Europe and Australia in over 30 solo, collaborative and group exhibitions, and has undergone artist residencies and extensive travels to over 30 countries.
After earning her BA in Media Arts from RMIT University Melbourne in 2005 majoring in Fine Art Photography under Dr. Les Walkling, she completed in 2012 her MA at Goldsmiths College London/Lasalle College of the Arts Singapore, of which her research on the use of scent in contemporary art has earned her the Golden Key Asia-Pacific Postgraduate Award as well as the Lasalle Scholarship. Furthermore she was award twice the GK Visual & Performing Arts Achievement Award; once for the installation "Timensions" which thematically explores current models in Quantum Physics and String Theory; developed in collaboration with Dario Lombardi and the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the University of Singapore, and secondly for her multi-sensory installation "Continuum of Consciousness" centred around sentient awareness of perpetual reality, exhibited at the Institut Francais Bandung, Indonesia. Linda has exhibited extensively both in Europe and Australia in over 30 solo, collaborative and group exhibitions, and has undergone artist residencies and extensive travels to over 30 countries.
