3rd European textile and Fibre Art Festival - Catalogue
3rd European textile and Fibre Art Festival - Catalogue
3rd European textile and Fibre Art Festival - Catalogue
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AUD BAEKKELUND<br />
Norway / Norvé©ija<br />
Born 1960<br />
Øvre Sundsvik 4<br />
5600 Norheimsund, Norway<br />
Education<br />
1989 MA in Textile, National<br />
College of <strong>Art</strong> <strong>and</strong> Design,<br />
Bergen, Norway<br />
Selected exhibitions<br />
2005 Flaten <strong>Art</strong> Museum,<br />
Minnesota <strong>and</strong> Nordic<br />
Heritage Museum, Seattle,<br />
USA<br />
2004 West Norway’s Annual <strong>Art</strong><br />
Exhibition, Bergen,<br />
Stavanger, Ålesund, Norway<br />
2003 Solo exhibition,<br />
Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo,<br />
Norway<br />
Solo exhibition, Rogal<strong>and</strong><br />
Kunstsenter, Stavanger,<br />
Norway<br />
2002 “Textile Techniques in<br />
Metal” Mobilia Gallery,<br />
Cambridge Mass, USA<br />
2001 “Kàrpit” Museum of Fine<br />
<strong>Art</strong>s, Budapest, Hungary<br />
Works in collections<br />
Norwegian Council of Culture<br />
The Oslo Museum of Applied <strong>Art</strong>,<br />
Norway<br />
Kvam Kunstlag, Norway<br />
Odda municipality, Bokkotunet,<br />
Norway<br />
Hardangerrådet, Kabuso art <strong>and</strong> culture<br />
centre, Øystese, Norway<br />
The idea was simple. I looked through my family’s<br />
clothes, trying to find out where they<br />
were produced. We are a family of four, <strong>and</strong><br />
our clothes have been haphazardly purchased<br />
by different members of the family.<br />
Most of the articles proved to be from a lot of<br />
different countries. They came from countries<br />
well known for their cheap labour, they<br />
were marked with “import”, or the origin<br />
was impossible to determine. Perhaps it<br />
should not come as a big surprise, but actually<br />
none of them were produced in<br />
Norway.<br />
I became fascinated with the small labels sewn<br />
inside the clothes. Though the tags had similar<br />
designs <strong>and</strong> shapes, they gave a clear<br />
indication of where to find the <strong>textile</strong> industry<br />
of today. Maybe the designer comes<br />
from yet a third country, still, the clothes<br />
meet here <strong>and</strong> become a part of the<br />
“Norwegian clothing style”.<br />
I’ve made a kind of Norwegian flag of these<br />
tags that could also be looked upon as a<br />
cross. I’m not sure if it’s a sad memorial over<br />
the Norwegian <strong>textile</strong> industry, or a flag<br />
expressing happiness over successful trade<br />
between the countries.<br />
Either way, this flag is guaranteed “h<strong>and</strong>made<br />
in Norway”, even though none of the<br />
clothes, where I found the tags, were produced<br />
here.<br />
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