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Stitching Circle at The Nordic Textile Takeover
In this workshop you will join three celebrated Nordic textile artists, Thorunn Elisabet Sveinsdottir, Nora Martine Hjelle Strand, and Andrea Magdalena Jónsdottir, all of whom work with embroidery and stitching in a range of ways. Meet them, spend time with them, and learn with them, needle in hand.
At the heart of this year's Nordic Textile Takeover is the tradition of gathering, and learning alongside one another. Bringing embroidery back to its social roots, this workshop will create a meeting point, wherein stories and skills are shared through the act of creation.
Throughout this workshop, you will have the opportunity to engage with all three artists, learning about their respective practices, as well as different stitches and stitching techniques, experiencing the way in which the act of stitching in community can become a platform for the exchange of knowledge.
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Thorunn Elisabet Sveinsdottir (Iceland)
Thorunn is an Artist and Costume_Set Designer from Reykjavik, Iceland.
As an artist she has given several solo exhibitions as well as group exhibitions. She is a member of The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists. Thorunn Elisabet has been an active set and costume designer in Icelandic theatre and films for more than four decades and has won the most prodigious awards of excellence for her work. She is a member of The Icelandic Actors and Drama Guild. Two books about Thorunn Elisabet have been published:
“I Love Being Alive – A testimony of a unique Icelandic artist.”
“She Is My Sweetheart For 50 Years”
Nora Martine Hjelle Strand (Norway)
Nora Martine is a Norwegian artist based in Bergen, Norway. Her practice centers on processing memories and emotions through physical actions. This is the starting point for autobiographical textile works built through repetitive, time-consuming techniques such as weaving and hand-quilting. She is interested in how we connect as human beings, and how experiences shape the way we live, a theme she explores both directly through text, and indirectly through colour and imagery. Every work begins with the personal. The finished piece becomes a physical trace of the internal process behind it: every thread holds a thought, every stitch a memory.
Andrea Magdalena Jonsdottir (Iceland)
Andrea Magdalena Jónsdóttir is a visual artist based in Reykjavík, Iceland. Her medium is textile and in particular hand embroidery. Her work explores situations where something is not at its right place, or something is missing but at the same time it appears familiar in the context of the setting. In recent work, Andrea works with her own memory notes, found text and mending. For her, working with thread offers tactile connection with the subject, in a slow but mindful process. Andrea has a BA degree in Anthropology, she studied visual art and design at the Iceland University of the Arts and holds an MA degree in Art Education from the same university. She has worked as an education and mediation specialist at the Reykjavík Art Museum and currently she teaches visual art at Fjölbrautaskólinn in Breiðholt, collage in Reykjavík, Iceland.