WORK

Photocredit: Kirstine Autzen

Images where dried seaweed is embroidered onto silk and placed in specially made deep frames with museum glass. The works combine my fascination with seaweed and textiles and invite the beauty of seaweed into your home.

The silk, embroidery threads, and watercolor paper behind are all materials from the shelves in my studio. The idea arose during the preparation of the exhibition Seaweed: Transformations at the Danish Arts Workshops in the early spring 2025. Here I was surrounded by all the seaweed I have collected over the years – placed in boxes, spread out on tables, hung on notice boards and out in the room.

All that beauty that fills me with such joy.

It made me think: How can I share this beauty with you?

The images are also created with the intention of inviting reflection on our relationship with the sea – both as individuals and as a society.

Perhaps they can inspire us to take better care of our sea, whose health and existence are crucial to us all.

Materials: Silkjesey, handdyed, seaweed with sand, sewing thread, aquarellepaper, embroderythread of silk, handdyed and viscose.

Specialmade frame with museumglass.

Measurement: 56 x 67 x 4 cm.

Materials: Woven light silk, handdyed, seaweed, sewing thread, aquarellepaper, embroderythread of silk, handdyed and viscose.

Specialmade frame with museumglass.

Measurement: 56 x 36 x 4 cm.

Materials: Silkjersey, handdyed, seaweed, sewing thread, aquarellepaper, embroderythread of silk, handdyed and vintage silkthread..

Specialmade frame with museumglass.

Measurement: 40 x 36 x 4 cm.

Material: Transparent thread and viscose. Leftover piece from 2005. Handdyed and handsewn. Measurement:

Photocredit: Ole Akhøj

Material: Small pieces of knit, leftover pieces. Handdyed. Handsewn on a piece of aquarelle paper. Measurements: 76 x 57,5 x 4 cm with museum glass.

Material: Small piece of knit, leftover piece. Handdyed. Handsewn on a piece of aquarelle paper. Measurements: 53,5 x 41 x 4 cm with museum glass.

Measurements: 108 x 63 x 4 cmwith museum glass.

My work with jellyfish lamps springs from the raw beauty that we find hidden deep in the ocean. I see jellyfish as the otherworldly dancers of the sea, with innumerable variations in patterns, shapes, colours and moods to which I give artistic expression through knit work. These strange beings remind me that comfort is deeply intertwined with hurt when we remember and sense all layers of life.

Literally and philosophically, the layers of the jellyfish are meditations of what is visible and what lies hidden to us in the dark, of beauty and the pain that we need contemplation and quietude to embrace.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any inquiries.

Have a look at a little beautiful film where I talk about creating the jellyfish lamps.

Made by Safran Film back in 2011, as part of the 2011 Biennale for Crafts and Design at Museet på Koldinghus

Fantasizing about the cup and its shape and function,  reworking discarded and damaged pieces of knitting from other projects.

Transformation - Brown objects

Transformation is a series of poetic artworks that makes visible experiences of change and transformation. It is a cyclic process, where I rework discarded and damaged pieces of knit from other projects and from them create images of a journey of constant personal development.

I create the works by changing the surface and expression of the textile through stretching and with plaster and color. From the soft surface of the textile, a crisp and raw materiality not unlike traces of an abandoned chrysalis appears.

Fantasizing about the cup and its shape and function in relation to the material I am working in.

Thinking of white laces and an english cup of tea in white porcelain.

Prints of hairpin lace objects, all on different papers and textiles, each with their individual expression.

The hairpin lace print originals are different yarn objects created on a hairpin lace loom, which I have made in varied materials.

They are part of an exploration of the possible traces we make on each other through our lives together and how those traces affect our personality. I also experiment with the many variations possible in the mix of yarn, lace, paper and textile. 

The series encompasses the original looms, original prints and print in editions of 20.

Sizes 30x30 cm and 30x40cm