The municipality as the initiator Ceramicist Tove Skov Larsen and textile artist Lise Frølund have done several artist-in-residence projects together. In 2022, Tove Skov Larsen was contacted by Middelfart Municipality at the recommendation of Clay Museum of Ceramic Art Denmark. The municipality wanted to do an artist-in-residence project, and Tove Skov Larsen invited weaver […]
[…] new project support committee for crafts and design was established under the Danish Arts Foundation. The committee’s strategy and prioritisation of funding are of crucial importance to the sector, according to the chair of Danish Crafts & Design, textile designer Hanne Brøbech Sønnichsen, who here outlines the association’s wishes and expectations for the new committee.
I trained at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, specialising in textile art. I define myself first and foremost as a textile artist, with one foot in the visual arts and one in crafts. For me, the material and textile techniques are fundamental, but the works are conceptually rooted and developed in dialogue […]
[…] On display are works in which the potential of the materials and the imprint of the hand are clearly evident – from heavy ceramic forms to light textile weaves. The exhibition is curated by the design duo ArkForma and insists on slowness, presence and openness in the experience. The result is a whole in […]
The exhibition brings together a wide range of materials and techniques ranging from weaving, textile printing and embroidery to graphic design, bookbinding, handmade paper, clay, photography, video and sound. This versatility helps create a holistic narrative, where every detail - whether it's a process tapestry, a sketch or a finished piece - contributes to […]
[…] during the event: The European Environment Agency hosted workshops and debates about upcycling of textiles, including presentations of serigraphy prints on reused textiles and short talks about textile manufacturing and new EU regulations, including discouraging data about how much water is used to produce a single cotton T-shirt, plastic fibres in our clothes that […]
[…] with materials and more workshop hours. Today, materials are a complex and ever-changing concept. While earlier designers were used to relating strictly to wood, steel, glass, clay and textile, today, the range of materials has undergone explosive growth to include entirely new types that behave very differently and function across the field in unprecedented ways.
Rebellion The protests in Copenhagen began with a meeting in February 1969. The students, spearheaded by Kirsten Dehlholm from the Textile line, had invited representatives of the Directorate of Vocational Training and the design profession. Despite some concessions by the Directorate, the students subsequently staged a week-long boycott of classes. During the boycott, together […]
[…] people’s welfare. Among the examples are the three study projects Venter i Farver, Yuniform and Fra Form til Tekstil (Waiting In Colour, Yuniform and From Form To Textile), which spring from an interdisciplinary course in design methodology as part of the design programme, in which bachelor students develop innovative health projects in collaboration with […]