[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 …
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 …
I had a great opening night at RAM gallery. About a hundred people showed up to take a look at Remembrance of the Sun. The speach by Elisabeth Sørheim made me very happy, it was to the point, personal and introduced multiple interpretations of the work. Thanks to RAM for painting the whole gallery black. …