Sini Villi (b. 1980, Nivala) is a textile artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. In her work Villi uses handmade ribbon to create three-dimensional textile wall sculptures. The organically flowing ribbon is layered and shaped into a sculpture, which, when hardened from within, retains its unique form.

The visual language of the textile sculptures draws its inspiration from Sini Villi’s roots in Northern Ostrobothnia, by the vast and silent natural landscape. Every autumn large fields are ploughed, forming softly rhythmic grooves. The color scheme becomes one-dimensional, but the adjacent shapes create a visually interesting and soothing view. In the spring, life fills the ground again and the colors return. Sini Villi's art is based on a similar endless cycle of nature, which can be seen both in the ripples of the water surface and in the annual rings of the tree.

Sini Villi graduated with Bachelor of Culture and Arts in 2004, focusing on clothing design. She has worked for 20 years widely in the fields of fashion and interior textiles as a designer, couturier and a production manager. Villi´s path to textile art began with her need to slow down and dive deeper into the creative process through materiality.

Sini Villi´s work is currently exhibited at Lokal gallery in Helsinki, Finland and KOOS gallery in Tallinn, Estonia. In the coming summer she will be exhibiting her work also in Brussels, Belgium, Stockholm, Sweden, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Villi´s art is found in the Finnish State Art Collection, the Oulu Museum of Art Collection, and private collections worldwide.

For all inquiries please contact: sini(at)sinivilli.fi.