[…] former factory on Amager, which once housed the city's production. The view through the window behind him is anything but natural, but inside he has decorated with textiles dyed with ochre, tiles glazed with ochre pigments and cardboard in grey-brown, yellowish and reddish shades. His interest in surfaces, materials and old traditions arose when […]
[…] can use both their heads and their hands, as His Majesty the King emphasises in his New Year's speech. When we think of craft traditions – glassblowing, textile printing, ceramics or wood and metalwork – it is not just about preserving the past. It is about seeing how new knowledge and technology can be […]
[…] therapy can be one of the great ideas of 20th century medicine. Am J Occup Ther. 1962;16:1-9. Reynolds F. (2004). Conversations about creativity and chronic illness II: textile artists coping with long-term health problems reflect on the creative process. Creativity Research Journal, 16(1):79–89. Reynolds F, Vivat B, Prior S. (2008). Women’s experiences of increasing […]
[…] Special Economic Zones, it is difficult to see the material flows and their environmental impact. To take a local example: Here in Oslo, there used to be textile mills and other types of manufacturing industry along the Aker river running through the city. This meant that people had a relation to how stuff was […]
[…] how function, materials, and concept all play a role in the selection. One of the newest works is Sun Disc (2025), an acoustic panel by architect and textile object researcher Cecilie Bendixen. The work combines function and aesthetics and was donated by the C. L. David Foundation. Another example is the Järpen lounge chair, […]
[…] also open up to craft artists and designers. This is not happening, despite the fact that more and more visual artists are expressing their artistic practice in materials such as textiles or ceramics. The recent Venice Biennale manifested exactly this trend, with a preponderance of textile works that focussed on craft artists and local crafts.
[…] point of departure at Design School Kolding (DSKD), where she is a teaching associate professor and thus has first-hand insight into the mindset of the new craft makers and designers. At the school, the new generation of makers and designers generate new potentials for the textile field that we can all learn from. Read article
[…] her point of departure at Design School Kolding (DSKD), where she is a teaching associate professor and thus has first-hand insight into the mindset of the new craft makers and designers. At the school, the new generation of makers and designers generate new potentials for the textile field that we can all learn from. Read
[…] aspect has moved into the background in courses on form. Students from the Schools of Visual Arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts work with textile and ceramics and are heirs to part of this tradition. The focus on designer-makers may have represented a reinterpretation but has only a tenuous connection to […]
[…] 'Generation Why' exhibition unfolds as an interesting double vision of what it means to be an artisan today. Here you are not 'just' a ceramicist, glass or textile designer, for example. In a time when everything can in principle be produced by machine, expressing yourself in a craft, technique or material becomes a conceptual […]