Folldal Mines
Folldal Mines were built in 1906 in order to extract iron pyrites from a decommissioned copper works. Pyrites were in high demand in the fertiliser and paper industries. In record time, a young engineer, Worm Lund, developed a highly advanced and ambitious plant which included a power station, hoisting plant and a 35 km cableway running to Alvdal Station. Good quality accommodation and a school were built for the workers, but Lund was a hard taskmaster and the mines suffered from the longest strikes and greatest class differences in Norwegian history. The production was moved several times, but by the 1990s the deposits were empty. When the Hjerkinn Mine was closed down in 1993, a trust was set up to ensure conservation of the buildings and develop the museum at the Folldal Works.
photo: Bård Løken
Trine Pettersen: Appearance
Trine Pettersen
has been educated at the Trondheim Academy of Art and the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her ideas derive from her longstanding interest in quantum theory and are all about understanding reality. Her work portrays reality as being ambiguous, with physical and mental space being intertwined. She works with photography and 3D animation, involving both still and moving pictures which range from purely abstract and sculptural compositions to distinctive photo-realistic expressions. She has recently visited the Folldal Mines and is looking at the opportunities available for creating art in the mine’s galleries.
