Rannvá Holm Mortensen

The Suntrap

Genre: Poetry
Publisher: Sprotin
Year: 2018
Pages: 106
ISBN: 978-99972-1-258-0
English translation available

An immersive artist's book where poetry, visual art, and the natural world merge into a singular feminine landscape.

In Suntaste, acclaimed visual artist and poet Rannvá Holm Mortensen creates a work that moves fluidly between image and text. Combining poems, collages, prints, woodcuts, and handwritten fragments, the book invites readers into a world where the boundaries between body and nature begin to dissolve.

Drawing on the colours and textures of the Faroe Islands, Mortensen explores themes of femininity, transformation, longing, and belonging. Sea creatures, seaweed, blood, saltwater, and shifting human forms recur throughout the work, creating a rich visual and poetic language that is at once intimate, dreamlike, and elemental.

Part poetry collection, part artist's book, Suntaste is a striking exploration of the connections between women, the body, and the living world.

Rannvá Holm Mortensen (b. 1950) is a poet and multidisciplinary visual artist. Working across painting, printmaking, installation, sculpture, textiles, illustration, and writing, she has developed a distinctive artistic practice rooted in organic forms and human experience. Her work frequently combines personal, ecological, and social themes and has been exhibited widely in the Faroe Islands and internationally.

Awards and recognition
Faroese National Literature Prize (M.A. Jacobsen) 2018

Rights sold to: USA