anne © merete
Collaboration with textile colleague Merete Christensen, 1996 – 2008
We have always, independently of each other, had great interest for, and work a lot with COLOR. We both have rich, but very different palettes. This has over time given us a synergy, which is one of our strongest suits. Our expertise and interest are mainly the fields of COLOR, SURFACE PATTERNS; ARCHITECTURE, AND INTERIOR DECORATION.
PUBLIC WORKS
Sluseparken kindergarden
Lunde in Telemark 2008
Designing the exterior brick walls.
Collaboration with Merete Christensen and the National Center of Bricks.
Photo: Anne Bårdsgård and LPO arkitekter
St. Olavs hospital 1902-bygget
Trondheim 2007
Brick floor at the entrance.
Collaboration with Merete Christensen
Dahlske high school
Grimstad. 2005.
Painted ceiling panels.
Collaboration with Merete Christensen and Anne Aanerud.
Overlege Danielsens Hus
Department of Clinical Dentistry – University of Bergen 2005
Painted sheet wood
Collaboration with Merete Christensen
Garnes Elementary School
Hordaland 2004
Colored shotcrete
Collaboration with Merete Christensen
University of Bergen
Faculty of social sciences 2004
Linoleum mosaic
Collaboration with Merete Christensen
EXHIBITIONS
Divas, Gray Mice and Geezers
Kunstnerforbundet 2000
Tendencies
Galleri F15, Jeløya, 2000
The work is a tribute to Grete Smedal
About the work «HEI GRETE!»
Within all artistic education lie the tension between theory and practice. The science of the color phenomena can largely be learned by reading, and treated theoretically. It is when these phenomena express themselves on surfaces, objects and spaces, that they come to life and become a tool for expression. The first time I saw «HEI GRETE!» The color elements were some organized, some still scattered across the floor in the atrium at KHIB, and I had a four stories birds eye view over the surface. Anne and Merete were crawling around in this orgy of possibilities, and ordered, organized, fixed, discussed, and reflected. I had long since noticed their curiosity for relationship and effects between colors, and their discovery of the possibilities of the geometrical patterning.
What an awesome delight to see it come to fruition! One can use many a theoretical expression to express what takes place in a surface like this, but primarily one can let themselves get captivated by all the eye can discover of variations, movements and different relations between the shapes. The link between joy of discovery, impulsive actions, reflection and great work capacity comes to its dynamical expression in the fantastistical surfaces of Anne and Merete.
Grete Smedal, Professor of color, Academy of Arts in Bergen
Norwegian Handicrafts Annual Exhibition 1997
1997
Collaboration
Hordaland kunstnersenter 1997
OTHERS ABOUT US:
The works of Anne and Merete has an artistic freshness and a courage that grasps the contemporary. Fearless and steady they create a modern, artistic formlanguage with content, colors and materials. The expression is ofen architectonic, as a space element and/or as a surface. It is therefore natural to bring their works into buildings – as embellishments or as an integrated part of the architecture/interior design.
Anne and Merete are turning textile arts into a relevant contemporary expression.
Randi Kalgraff, interior architect MNIL
Anne and Merete raises, with an artistic nerve, our common textile memories, and puts the in a new context. The give us the opportunity to rediscover the known. They dispel the mundanity and expose aesthetics for many of us in areas we didn’t even attribute with such qualities. That their usage of disposed materials enters important discussions of recycling and resource efficiency can hardly be seen as a negative, even though it hasn’t been an important motivation, but rather a practival way to work.
Kari Dyrdal, Textile artist/Professor at the institute of fine arts, Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen
anne © merete creates space in their works. Geometrical patterns and strong colors envelop you. You become a part of the work, and the space just continues to grow around you. Geometrical patterns that are not too strict, but rather invites playfulness.
Eli Okkenhaug, chief curator at Bergen Art Museum
It is no wonder that Anne and Merete have marked themselves as two of the country’s most prominent textile artists in a short span of time.
Jan Lauritz Opstad, former director at Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum
The collaboration of Anne and Merete is a method for communication, inspiration, energy, action, duty and responsibility. Collaboration is a chore, a game, play, a dream. A situation where anything can go wrong, but most succeeds.
Bente Sætrang, Textile artist