Year: 2017 Size: Materials: Wool, Linen, found computer screen, spraypaint About: Tapestry on painted computerscreen. 2017 Exhibitions: Scene View Navigation, at Gallery Format Location: Available for purchase, contact Gallery Format Categories Tapestries on found objects
Welcome to my new solo exhibition at BOA art gallery 23. sept – 16 oct.
Vernissage 23 sept. 18:00
Mothership – Solo exhibition at BOA Read More »
[fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] The commission “Friend” to Sandesundsveien School in Sarpsborg, Norway is finally completed and installed. After more than a year of planning and weaving it was great to see it installed in it’s niche in the Schools main hall. The work is about Friendship and shows two friends parachuting hand in hand. They are
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The Christmas Gift Show is opening today at 1800, at BOA Gallery in Oslo. All members can contribute to the show and prices are up to nok 6000,-. I Have for sale three small tapestries called Machines price NOK 3800,- each. It is open only this weekend so pop in as you browse town for
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[fbshare type=”button” width=”150″] I have been commissioned to make a large tapestry, 10 square meters for Sandesundsveien public school in Sarpsborg. The art committee suggested the theme “Friends” in the art plan for the school. The work will be located in the main hall of the school. It will be approximately 9 metes long and I
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[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.
New work in progress feb 2015 Read More »
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
Soloshow at Kunstplass5 Read More »
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
New Public Art: Søndeled Primary School Read More »
Two new pictures from The exhibition at RAM gallery. It was great to finally be able to make an installation showing the work from its two sides, and also work with the light and color of the walls to create a very special ambience around the work.
Installation of Remembrance of the Sun Read More »
I make large tapestries with motives that portray archetypal elements from landscape and architecture. The language of popular culture, Science fiction films, cartoons, computer games etc. inspires me. I omit super heroes, text and other narrative elements, so it’s just the environment, architecture, landscape, scenography that alone forms the motif. The Spectators herself can be
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The desert is an archetypal landscape. In this work a wall surrounds it, that blocks out the horizon. There is an empty space upfront, but there are several hiding places for possible enemies. It’s dangerously quiet. There is no water in the desert, and no sign of organic life. The sky has an artificial yellow
The Blue Control Room Read More »
The technology is today’s new religion. It will save us from the dangers that threaten our little blue planet be it natural disasters or man-made problems such as global warming and storage of nuclear waste. The question is whether we believe it or not. The last year has called infallible technology failed on both the
The work is inspired by computer games. It raises the question of finding the way to the next level. In the system of artificial tunnels, there is a multiple choice of where to go next. You can choose to go left or right, or into one of the openings ahead. The blue is perhaps a
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