Linda Bakke (born 19 August 1973) is a Norwegian artist, residing in

Stange Municipality is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Hedemarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Stangebyen. Other villages include Bekkelaget, Espa, Bottenfjellet, Il ...

Eastern Norway Eastern Norway (, ) is the geographical region of the south-eastern part of Norway. It consists of the counties Oslo, Akershus, Vestfold, Østfold, Buskerud, Telemark, and Innlandet. Eastern Norway is by far the most populous region of Norw ...

. She is a graduate of Oslo Tegne and Maleskole (a drawing and painting school in

Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...

) (1991–1994) and Vestlandets kunstakademi in

Bergen Bergen (, ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland county on the Western Norway, west coast of Norway. Bergen is the list of towns and cities in Norway, second-largest city in Norway after the capital Oslo. By May 20 ...

(1994–1998). The latter was an art academy that became

Bergen Academy of Art and Design Bergen Academy of Art and Design () or KHiB was one of two independent and accredited scientific institutions of higher learning in the visual arts and design in Norway (The other is Oslo National Academy of the Arts). It was located in Bergen, N ...

in 1996. She also worked as a

stonemason Stonemasonry or stonecraft is the creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone as the primary material. Stonemasonry is the craft of shaping and arranging stones, often together with mortar and even the ancient lime mortar ...

assistant for Bård Breivik. Bakke has worked in wide-ranging fields of art, including sculpture, drawing, painting and photography, and has been responsible for a number of public artworks. Among them is

The Big Elk ''The Big Elk'', also known as ''Storelgen'' (meaning 'the big elk' in Norwegian), is the world's second-tallest sculpture of an elk/moose (''Alces alces''; this species is known as ''elk'' in Europe and ''moose'' in North America). It is near t ...

and Seed.

References

External links

Linda Bakke's website

Saatchi Art
Living people 1973 births Norwegian artists People from Stange {{Norway-artist-stub