Exhibition poster
Mother of Pearl
One-off, wall frieze handprint. Reactive dye, cotton, full size 150 x 450 cm 2011.
Linear Stack
One off screen-printing. Discharge- and chemical- color resist, cotton. 300 x 143 cm, 1995.
Industrial Technique Award. The 5th International Textile Competition 97-Kyoto
Statement of Jury:
This Work produces feelings of depth and thickness while using flat dyeing techniques. Scrupulous design and calculated repetition technique enable this plane print fabric to express a sense of thickness and the textures of natural materials with great succes. This work well conveys the artist’s intentions of ”pushing the limits as far as the repeat printing technique allows, exploring the surface, and aiming to create a spatial expression on a two-dimensional material.
Labyrint
Wall frieze handprint, serigrafi unik. Reactive dye, cotton, 190 x 145 cm, 2009.
#3-5
Painting. Acrylic on paper. 130 x 90 cm, 2004.
Panorama #1, #2, #3.
One-off textiles 2004. Handpainted, reactive dye on cotton. Each 300 x 135 cm.
Museum of Industrial Arts, Copenhagen.
The Panorama textiles were created during the work on the decorations for the Serafen supportive housing complex in Stockholm, which included a hand-painted wall frieze on thick cotton. As a result of the architecture in Stockholm, the ”Panorama” wall frieze for Serafen is very broad and relatively short. During the process I found I wanted to cut out parts of the powerful colour sequence to view them at more radical heights – and painted three sections in a longer version.
Here patterns and ornament have been emancipated from the materiality with which one normally associates artist-craftsmanship – and have become autonomous visuality. Louise Sass’ stripes are an interplay of extreme colour shades in an unconventional spatial and tonal pattern.
10 paintings on papir
Each 68 x 75 cm. 2000-02.
11 one-off textile prints with poem by Tóroddur Poulsen.
Works on paper.
The exhibition revolves around interfaces and the meaning of spaces. The paintings, individually and in relation to one another, form a dynamic space where the surroundings are drawn into an interplay with vision and motion when the viewer moves in the space. The boundaries between surface and space become diffuse.
En Route #2 and En Route #1. Screen-print on silk. One-off.
On the occasion of The Söderberg Prize 1998.
The exhibition showed one-off printed textiles, works on paper and product design.
For richly promising, internationally remarked work as a textile designer, undertaken with great artistic talent, which derives its inspiration from an independently made, dynamic and fruitful penetration into pattern composition for a variety of materials – everything from printed textiles to arrangements of complete rooms, artistically related to music and sculpture.
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