The textile festival in Leiden from 12 to 15 May 2021 is a festival planned for 2020. Due to covid19, the festival was postponed until 2021 and finally turned into a partially digital event.
The collaboration in KUR started by the group was looking for a common room in Førde downtown. The collaboration concluded here on a walk where we looked at Førde … We photographed, talked and exchanged thoughts about Førde and the “immaterial” spaces. Photographs from this session lasted a intellectually ending of KUR as art project.
This time we mounted up a fishing net that covers the entire window. In the fishing net we woven easily accessible material t. d. “Strips”, plastic material, leftovers o.a.
In the second window for exhibition we used clothes hangers from a disused shop in the area and created a composition with these in the window. A newspaper story in the newspaper Firda.
True to tradition, we celebrated Also this year Women’s Day with an art project. KUR is concerned vacant stores and empty shop windows in centre of Førde. We started now with a series of window for exhibitions. To illustrate the stereotypical woman presentation in the society we showed defective exhibit dolls on the dates 8th – 16th March 2014.
This autumn exhibition organized by Flora Art Association. They arrange their exhibitions in the Coastal Museum in Sogn og Fjordane, which is located in the city.
This is a group ‹Textile shapes› produced in 2012. This is work make in the meantime and can be produced anywhere and at any place. I need woolen strips, thread and needle – and silence.
This time they wanted to try out the media ‹art-zine› as an art genre. The booklet was launched on Vevring exhibition 2013, with her own presentation stand.
In connection with voting rights anniversary in 2013. In a small week around voting rights anniversary date 10th June this year printed newspaper advertisements KUR had found in various publications around the year 1913.
We work with texts that had the right to vote struggle and women’s situation in 1913. The texts were presented in 3 large banner placed on large buildings in Forde downtown and unveiled on Women’s Day.
This is a group ‹Textile shapes› produced in 2012. This is work make in the meantime and can be produced anywhere and at any place. I need woolen strips, thread and needle – and silence.
Designers’ Christmas Fair (DEJM) is a private initiative and an offer for designers and artists to exhibit and sell handmade design. The market is juried by the criterion for the market to have a good and varied selection of products.
Three works in the series ‹‹Figures for Comfort› has been selected to participate the 7th International Biennial of Textile Miniatures, ‹Vanich/Survive›, 2011. The exhibition will be held at The Lithuanian Artist’s Association’s gallery “Arka” in Vilnius.
The textile picture looks seemingly shapeless, but after a while one is able to understand and construe the picture so that one gets a perception of what the starting point is. -thread on a black tabletop.
Touring exhibition of Norwegian Textile Artists, Art Textiles Norway, 2006-2007. The work «Courtship», has participated at the juryated exhibition. The exhibition will be shown in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Bulgaria.
‹Figures for comfort› is a work in which I have used remnants from another’s work and made this together to figures. – for comforting in our modern time …
It was during a busy period before an exhibition I rediscovered the aquarelle technique. Now they are independent works and will occasionally participate in other exhibitions.
I have always been inspired by mi near past and what has happened to me. I searched dress fabric, but have not had many myself … This is my mother’s three dress fabric and a curtain fabric from the same place …
This work is intended for public decorations. In addition to being a piece of decoration, it is intended as a sound absorbing object in the room/at the wall.
