Personal profile
Research interests
Nina Sverdvik (born Oslo 1975) is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Photography at Southampton Solent University. She studied MA Photography at the Royal College of Art in London, Photography and Film at Napier University in Edinburgh, and Literature and Film Adaptation at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests encompass contemporary portraiture and narrative theory in photography, the perception of subjective time; and memory and space in film art particularly in Northern European cinema.
Her work has been exhibited widely, notably in the National Portrait Gallery London in the John Kobal and Schweppes Portrait Prize; the London Underground, commissioned through Art on the Underground and subsequently published in Platform for Art: Art on the Underground (edited by Alex Coles and Tamsin Dillon, Black Dog Publishing, London 2007), and Galerie Kirkwood Andresen in Oslo, Norway.
She has been the recipient of commissions from Land Securities Trillium, The Grosvenor Estate, and Southampton City Council with Sea City Museum.
Her portraits Serendipity was selected as part of the British Art Show 8 Southampton Fringe in 2016.
Her most recent work My Father’s Car was commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and funded by The Royal Norwegian Embassy and Film and Video Umbrella London. It was included in the exhibition Somewhere Becoming Sea curated by Steven Bode, Film and Video Umbrella London at Humber Street Gallery as part of Hull City of Culture 2017.
External positions
External Examiner, Bath School of Art, Film and Media, Bath Spa University
1 Jan 2025 → 1 Sept 2029
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
- 5 Exhibition
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City reflections
Jackman, K., Joy, S. & Sverdvik, N., 15 Feb 2025Research output: Creative Practice Outputs › Exhibition
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I Must Down to the Seas Again: My Father's Car Part II
Sverdvik, N. (Photographer), 29 Jul 2017Research output: Creative Practice Outputs › Exhibition
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Somewhere Becoming Sea: My Father's Car Part II
Sverdvik, N. (Photographer), 5 Apr 2017Research output: Creative Practice Outputs › Exhibition
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The British Art Show 8 Fringe Southampton: Serendipity
Sverdvik, N. (Photographer), 8 Oct 2016Research output: Creative Practice Outputs › Exhibition
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Sea City Museum: Titanic Portraits
Sverdvik, N. (Photographer), 12 Apr 2012Research output: Creative Practice Outputs › Exhibition
Activities
- 2 Oral presentation
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'Block' Teaching: The Context for, and Efficacy of, Six-Week Modules
Slevin, T. (Speaker) & Sverdvik, N. (Speaker)
14 Jun 2023Activity: Invited talk or paper presentation › Oral presentation
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Post-Digital and Convergent Technology in Creative Arts Pedagogy: 'When I put up my print for the exhibition in The Spark, it was really amazing’.
Slevin, T. (Speaker) & Sverdvik, N. (Speaker)
30 Jun 2025Activity: Invited talk or paper presentation › Oral presentation