About Me
My name is Ingvild Adelaine Eiring, a diorama artist based in Oslo. I create handcrafted miniature worlds inhabited by anthropomorphic mice—small stages where folklore, memory, and imagination meet.
In 2024 I added Adelaine to my name to honor my ancestor Andres Adelaine, who fled Alsace during the Huguenot conflict in 1640 and settled in Beiarn, Northern Norway. Stories of migration, family history, and the quiet traces people leave behind often find their way into my work.
I grew up in Bodø and first trained in fashion design at ESMOD in Oslo, later studying drawing at the Art Students League of New York. For 30 years I have worked as a costume designer for film, television, and advertising—an experience that continues to shape how I think about storytelling, character, texture, gesture, and atmosphere in my miniature scenes.
Since 2008 I also modeled for art photography, an experience that sharpened my awareness of presence and storytelling through the body—qualities that now echo in the figures inhabiting my dioramas.
Over the past decade, diorama art has become my main artistic focus. My miniature environments have been exhibited in Norway, Belgium, the United States, and Germany.
