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I work mainly with textile objects and installations. My artwork is concerned with human situations and often reflects or depicts clothing, either in form, materials, or both. Clothes, being intimately related to the body, are directly connected to mankind and therefore a natural conduit for human stories. I employ clothing and textiles as a means of communication, freed from their basic function as body coverings.

The textiles we wear form a boundary between the individual and the outside world. Clothes are « the meeting point between the private and the public », writes Entwistle in the book The Dressed Body. Despite the thin, fragile properties of textiles, they constitute a considerable boundary and protection, while communicating information about the individual and how he or she interacts with society. My object is to reveal the person under the clothing, the individual’s mental or emotional state.

The materials I choose are used – second hand – and often my own clothes. In order to make explicit the personal and private, I choose textiles that have visible traces of people – wear and tear, holes and stains. I want the individual to seep through the textiles so that something human can emerge from these bodiless clothing objects.

Education:
2006-2009       Oslo National Academy of the Arts, BA
2004-2006       University of Oslo, Study of Esthetics   
1997-2000       DTK Art School, Bærum

Solo exhibitions/projects:

2014                                            Kunstløa, Nome county, NORWAY
2013 «Uncustomized»                  Kunstmuseet Nord Trøndelag,  NORWAY
2012 «Living in a box»    display cases in the city Sandvika,    Bærum,  NORWAY
2011                            display cases at Oslo Bussterminal,     Oslo,  NORWAY
2011 «You are never fully dressed without a smile»  Galleri Blakstad, Asker,  NORWAY

Exhibitions (selected):

2013 «Craft 2013»     The National Museum of art, architecture and design, Oslo,  NORWAY
2013 «The Spring Exhibition 2013»      Kunsthal Charlottenborg,  Copenhagen, DENMARK
2013 «Novemberutstillingen 2013»      Lychepavliongen,  Drammens Museum,   NORWAY
2013 «Ytre rom og andre rom»     Bærum Kunstforening,   Sandvika, NORWAY
2013  Huntenkunst 13      Ulft, THE NETHERLANDS
2013 «A house full of friends»    NOoSPHERE Arts,  New York, USA

2012 «Novemberutstillingen 2012»     Lychepavliongen, Drammens Museum,   NORWAY
2012 «There is a place, there is a house, there is a room»     DTK project gallery, Bekkestua,  NORWAY
2012 «International juried show»        Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, NORWAY &  NOoSPHERE Arts, New York,  USA
2012 «Lost Garden 2012», BKiB collaboration with HOK,      Henie-Onstad Art centre, Høvik,  NORWAY
2012 «kunst rett vest»  open studios and group show,     Galleri Trafo, Asker,  NORWAY

2011 «The Norwegian sculpure biennal 2011»      Vigeland-museet, Oslo,  NORWAY
2011 «Craft 2011»    The National Museum of art, architecture and design, Oslo,  NORWAY
2011 «Novemberutstillingen 2011»      Lychepavliongen, Drammens Museum,  NORWAY
2011 «kunst rett vest»    open studios and group show, Sundland, Drammen,  NORWAY

2010 «Essens 2010 NKs – theme exhibition»     Kunstbanken, Hamar &  KUBE art museum, Ålesund,  NORWAY   
2010 «Østlandsutstillingen»    (annual exhibition of the eastern region) Østfold Kunstsenter, Fredrikstad & Peder Balke senter,  Øvre Toten,  NORWAY

2007 «Paperwork»     DTK project gallery, Høvik,  NORWAY   

2006  «..med hjerte for husflid»    husfliden 115 år, Oslo Town Hall gallery,  NORWAY        
2006  «jubileumsutstilling»   (anniversary exhibition)  Tegnerforbundet( The Drawing Center of Norway), Oslo,  NORWAY

Presented in the book «Textileart around the world», Publisher: Ellen Bakker, Textile-link    2014, NL

https://textiellink.nl/en/textileart-around-the-world

https://www.tafalist.com/profile/textile-link-textiellink-textil-link/

Work presented in «Aesthetica – The art and culture magazine»,    June, 2014, UK