Åse Vikse’s practice investigates the perception of place and its inhabitants.
The connection to a specific landscape can often be detected in her motifs through an ongoing search for familiar places, people or activities, such as walking.

Vikse values the hand-crafted part of the print process such as the documentation of surface in a frottage print, the detailed carving and registering of a reduction relief print, but also finds profound joy in the discovery and chance when working with monotype.
She is fascinated by found objects collected during walks and seek to convey their pure beauty through imprints.

In 'us and them' she addresses the invisible gap between humans and how me way perceive others who may be different, but ultimately the same.
Inspired by a photo of the Callanish stones from her 2017 visit, this woodcut is carved from a plank found in a Golders Green street which reflects the honesty and a somewhat reluctance from the wood to become a piece of art. The discarded enters the process and becomes exalted as a result of being seen and valued.

Åse Vikse has a background in Graphic Design and Illustration, a profession she sees as stable pillars below her Printmaking practice. Originally from the southwest coast of Norway, in 2015 Vikse moved to the northeast coast of Scotland.

Vikse graduated from Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, in 2020 with a BA (Hons) in Communication Design (Illustration) and is currently studying MA Fine Art Printmaking at Middlesex University, London.

Vikse has shown work in Aberdeen, London, Middlesbrough and Folkestone, as well as in virtual shows, such as Hulabhaig's 'Uig Open 2020'.