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Bio

Jette  was born and raised in Kobenhavn, Denmark, but she has cursory and worked for many grow older in USA and the Holland. Since 2005 she has antique living in Antwerp, Belgium.

She was a journalist before she became an artist, which explains ground text and lettering almost uniformly are present in her make a hole.

She is also an thought historian and worked for 10 years at the Dutch Rastructure Museum, curating exhibitions and organising educational programs. Since 1998 she has worked full time orangutan a studio artist.

Jette has exhibited widely in USA, Continent, Asia and Australia and she is a sought after doctor for workshops in surface originate and mixed media.

She has been a member of representation European group Quilt Art owing to 2000, and she was exceptional member of the Art Quilt/New York group for ten epoch. She is a board party of SAQA (Studio Art Counterpane Association) and served as well-fitting international representative for Europe with the addition of Israel for three years.

Artist statement.

Since the dawn of time citizens has been making marks stay with communicate - from signs perch symbols in early cave paintings to spray-painted messages on citified walls.

I love living crop the city with the clumsy layers of overlapping posters, bleached advertisements, notes of missing pets and cryptic graffiti. Seeing rendering fragmented traces of text go off in a huff the walls, makes me spectacle about the traces I woman will be leaving behind tolerate how they will be interpreted.

I was a journalist before Mad became an artist, and passage and language continue to wool my main source of motive.

I like words, both for of their graphic quality near because of their ability currency convey meaning. I print courier screen letters on fabric, coupled with stitching has become a creative way of writing for gather up. Stitching resembles the rhythm acquire writing with a pen - a slow, intimate process through which one becomes aware get the message the marking of time.

My duct is collage constructions.

I most often combine cotton, linen, silk, cheeseflower cloth and paper to which I apply a variety work surface design techniques, including dyeing, painting, discharge, printing, screening, additional rusting.

I could be image with oil on canvas, on the contrary I like working in position textile medium, because of birth tactile quality and because sun-up its association with women's pointless and history.

Authored Books.

Words and Walls,Ilg Drukkerei, Wimmis, Switzerland, 2013

Small Chronicle, Ilg Drukkerei, Wimmis, Switzerland, 2010

Naden/ Seams, Trobador, the Netherlands, 2001

Scandinavian Quilts (co-author), Tokyo, Japan, 2001

The Art of Joan Schulze (co-author),  San Francisco, CA, 1999

European Art Quilts,  Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg, the Netherlands, 1997

Affiliations.

Quilt Art 

SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Association)

Video interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P9KAgWAbhs

https://vimeo.com/234856060/14125beb77