Solveig Wiig

Solveig Wiig (b.1980) is an animator, cartoonist and illustrator. Wiig is educated as an illustrator and holds an MA in Design from Oslo National Academy of the Arts with a BA (Hons) of Arts from University College Falmouth (UK). She is trained as an animator from Volda University College and The Animation Workshop in Viborg (Denmark). She holds a BA in animation from University College Volda and a BA in History of Art from The University of Oslo. Wiig is also a teacher with pedagogical education from Rudolf Steiner University College and in Media Didactics from The University of Oslo.

Wiig is an artist within the fields of comic books and film who has received Artist Grants from The Norwegian Fund for Illustration, Grafill, and The Arts Council Norway. The graphic novel Fragments No.1 was nominated for the Award Visuelt 2017 under the category illustration.

For several years, she has explored the field of sequence-based drawing within the autobiographical comic book series Fragments. The comics Fragments No.1 and Fragments No.2 have previously been printed in two editions: risograph-and digital issues.

Wiig has various teaching experience from University level to Sixth Form College in subjects within Media and Art. She has been a lecturer at Oslo Metropolitan University, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and The Nordic Institute of Stage and Studio. Solveig Wiig currently teaches Life Drawing and croquis at Volda University College.

She has exhibited her work at Deichman Grünerløkka/Serieteket, Grafill R21, Black Box teater, Norwegian Film Institute and The Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture. Wiig has also exhibited work in England at The Royal Society of Arts and at the venue Business Design Centre at the Leading London Graduate Design Show New Designers.