Anne-Maj Grönroos is a Finnish sculptor and artist.

Anne-Maj started in 1976 making hand-woven items that she then sold at trade fairs. After that, she started doing more and more textile art, like tapestries. She mostly depicted landscapes in earthy colors.

After her studies in England, she made more experimental three-dimensional textile art (a little sculptural). The colour language also became richer.

From the year 2000, the sail project came together. She collected old, often a little moldy cotton sails that she was fascinated by when the mold had coloured the sails almost like maps. She then wrapped the sail around canvas, sometimes painted the sail, sometimes wrote old seaman’s poems on them.

At around the same time, a new material came back into picture, namely the wrought iron. Between 2002 and 2015, Anne-Maj had the pleasure of collaborating with the talented smith Jarmo Anttila, they made sculptures that she calls “pinngubbar” (stick figures) often with dance as the theme.

The human movement and body language always fascinated Anne-Maj, both in textile and sculpture. In 2017 she found concrete as a work material for her sculptures. The theme stayed the same, human figures. Again, she wanted to express feelings and minimize the details. The body is hit by reinforcement iron, chicken netting and then black concrete is applied, which is stained with iron sulphite. She has left the surface rough and uneven to emphasise the nature of the material.