[fbshare type=”button” width=”150″] In the work “New Territory” I’m continuing my exploration of the control room motif. It will be shown in my next solo-exhibition at Buskerud Art-center in Drammen, Norway. It is a fairly large tapestry, 1,7 x 2,4 meters. The colors have darker tones and more nuances than in the former piece “The Blue …
[fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] I’m just a few weeks from finishing a new work. I’m really exited and decided to share a little teaser. I haven’t decided on a title yet, but it is a fairly large piece 1,70 x 2,40 meters. Hope you like it. I’m not yet finished with my series of control rooms. …
[fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] Extreme Fibers, Textile Icons and the New Edge at Muskegon Museum of Art My work has been selected to be in Extreme Fibers: Textile Icons and the New Edge at Muskegon Museum of Art (MI) USA. The exhibition opens in august 30th. 2015 The museum received entries from 340 artists from around the …
[fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] I am delighted about the news that my work, The Melancholy of Departure, has been shortlisted for the Cordis Trust Prize for Tapestry. It will be exhibited in the 2015 Annual Exhibition in February 2015 at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. I am looking forward to spend a week in Edinburgh. You can …
This work was the result form experimenting with the image of The melancholy of Departure. The work is 80 x 140 cm meter and are printed on Aluminium.
My Soloshow at Kunstplass 5 has now been taken down. My new work The Melancholy of Departure was hung in the middle of the room. It was lit with a spotlight from one side and the room was painted black. Here are some pictures of the installation and from the opening.
On -kunstplass 5 Sæterdal will present a beautiful and dramatic new artwork entitled “The Melancholy of Departure”. “The Melancholy of Departure” shows an alien world seen from a technological structure, possibly a spaceship . “I like the title because it both says something about a precise point in time and space – a movement from one place …
My works Mom & Dad Emergency, and Kaboo0m 3 are presently on show at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga. Artapestry 3 runs from 7th of august to 7th of september 2014. Link to the Museum. Here is the press release: The meaning of the exhibition “ARTAPESTRY3” is enclosed in its title, focusing our attention on …
New website! The website is back with a facelift after some weeks in maintenance mode. Soon I have a new work to show as well, the first to be made on my new large loom. The image shows the work still in the loom for a few more weeks, and it will be ready for the …
Remembrance of the Sun has been purchased for Hammer Secondary School in Lørenskog. I am very happy to see my work move from the studio to it’s home. I made this work for a solo-show at RAM gallery in 2012. It was installed hanging in the middle of the room, and could bee seen …
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Take a look at my new online exhibition! I’m currently doing an online exhibition at the Nordic textile art gallery. I thought it important to convey some thing other than the tactile surface, and the mere presence of the work that so often are qualities mentioned in connection with a textile exhibition. I choose to …
[fbshare type=”button”]The Blue Control Room has finally got a permanent home! Art Consultant Trond Hugo Haugen has on behalf of KORO purchased it for Jørstadmoen Military Camp. I think it looks just like it was made for the place! The Photos are all shot by Trond Hugo Haugen. I made The Blue Control Room in 2012, and …
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My work Scared of the dark has been accepted into American Tapestry Biennial 10, sponsored by the American Tapestry Alliance. From 118 artists who submitted 230 tapestries, juror Dr. Jessica Hemmings, Professor of Visual Culture and Head of the Faculty of Visual Culture at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, selected 37 tapestries …
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My work, “The Blue Control Room” will be part of Høstutstillingen 2013 This fall! Works by 95 artists was accepted by the jyry, out of 2300 applicants.
I just finished this project “Force field”. It is located in the main stairway of the school. I hope the Children and the staff will enjoy! Maybe they will wonder what kind of mysterious power the capsule contains? Maybe it is a machine for time travel, something they for sure will be doing in the future! The …
You are welcome to attend the opening of ARTAPESTRY 3 EUROPEAN TAPESTRY FORUM international exhibition Saturday 8 June 2013 at 13.00 pm The exhibition will be opened by Swedish artist Annika Ekdahl Carmen Groza (B), Eva Brodská (CS), Renata Roszivalova (CS), Margrethe Agger (DK), Annette Bredstrup (DK), Lise Frolund (DK), Mette Hansen (DK), Ane Henriksen …
20 artists out of almost 400 applicants was selected by the jury to participate in the Rijswijk Textile Biennal 2013 From the catalogue : Kristin Sæterdal – ‘Science Friction’ News bulletin April 2013: By the end of this decade NASA plans to capture an asteroid and drag it with a unmanned probe close to Earth in …
My work “Seen through tears” has got a final home in a meeting room at the Norwegian Embassy in Santiago de Chile. The work was bought by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008, for the Exhibition “Constructions”. The Exhibition has toured to Murmansk Russia, Sevilla and Madrid in Spain, Kilkenny in Ireland, Moscow,Russia, …
[fbshare type=”button”] Pictures from Osterøy high school in Norway “Very Rare Figures Upon this Earth” It is great to finally see the project finished. It has taken some time to get pictures from this project, but finally I got some and here they are! “Very rare figures upon this earth” was bought for this wall of …
New Public Art Project in progress. This is for Søndeled Primary School in Risør Norway. The title is “Kraftfelt” in Norwegian and I find it is quite hard to translate. Perhaps “Power field” or “Force field”? The work will hopefully give some mental power and energy to both teachers and pupils at the school. The wall it is …