Ragnhild Monsen Art

Merry Christmas 2011

2011-12-24T02:13:00.001-08:00

Ragnhild Monsen on Facebook – not active

2011-11-05T18:17:00.001-07:00

Det finnes en rekke personer med navnet RAGNHILD MONSEN på Facebook.

Dette Ragnhild Monsen har en Facebook-nærvær, men er ikke aktiv på Facebook

Facebook tilstedeværelse er nødvendig på grunn av forvirring om hvilke Ragnhild Monsen folk tar kontakt med

There are a number of people with the name RAGNHILD MONSEN on Facebook.

This Ragnhild Monsen is on Facebook but is not active on Facebook.

The Facebook presence is needed because of confusion as to which Ragnhild Monsen people are contacting

City Sunset (preliminary name)

2011-09-24T05:18:00.001-07:00

Cut down from the weaving loom tuesday 13th September 2011

size: 2.40 m x 2.40m

Peder Balke centre exhibition

2011-06-22T03:46:00.001-07:00

A group exhibition including some of Ragnhild's art is currently ( 7 may to 7 august) being held HERE

The picture above shows Ragnhild with one of her 'Infinity' thread group instalations

Guided tour

2011-03-06T20:13:00.001-08:00

On Sunday 13th March Ragnhild will be ghiving a guided tour of her exhibition at Sandefjord Kunstforening.

It's an opportunity to get an insight into the inspirations and interpretations behind her artistic expressions.

Her 'tour' begins at 14-00.

Sandefjord exhibition opening

2011-02-13T16:34:00.001-08:00

Vakkert Mysterium – Beautiful Mystery

2011-02-11T21:09:00.001-08:00

Intratråd - 002

2011-02-06T01:42:00.001-08:00

Intratråd -01

2011-02-06T01:30:00.001-08:00

INTRATRÅD

Artist’s choice of the term

Throughout much of human history thread has been used as a means of communication, of expressing the culture of a people. Indeed, there is a strong tradition that the first alphabet was formed from the geometric symbols found in a spider’s web. Weaving looms are one of the oldest tools known to mankind. Nearly every culture in the world developed around what kind of fabrics they wove. In Norway we are rightly proud of the fashion and style of the unique bunad which tells of the area, landscape, culture of the community from which it comes.

Decorative or artistic weaving has a long and honourable tradition within Scandinavia.

The term Intratråd is a play on a modern form of communication that almost everyone uses – intranet. When you connect to the internet through an Internet Service Provider (ISP) you are effectively using an intranet. When you enter a chatboard or similar you enter a ‘discussion thread’.

So you can see that thread, weaving, clothing, have been forms of communication from ancient times. The clothes you wear speak of the type of message you wish to give about your personality, character, feelings.

I do nothing more than utilise my knowledge with textile to create a form of communication of an idea, a concept, a perception. It is not a methodology that most people do as the disciplines of textile work demand certain understandings about colour, form and the suitability of materials.

As with the spider’s web that comes from within the spider, so my expressions of my art come from within me. Intra means from within.

Solo Exhibition opening 12th February

2011-01-30T03:36:00.001-08:00

Ragnhild opens a solo exhibition at 2-00pm on 12th February at

Sandefjord Kunstforrening

Byrakrater

2010-11-09T11:49:00.001-08:00

Working on remounting a Synnove Anker Aurdal tapestry, "Byrakrater (bureaucrats) for Trondheim Kunstindustri Museum.

Exhibition Sandefjord Kunstforening

2010-10-07T08:02:00.001-07:00

Ragnhild is coming with a solo exhibition to

from 12 February – 20 March 2011

(Sandefjord Kunstforening is at the side of the Rica Parc Hotel, Sandefjord as shown below)

2010-10-07T07:57:00.001-07:00

check out the video excerpts

2010-06-15T14:21:00.001-07:00

Here's one…this is done with textile and lighting/camera effects (before the days of cgi!)

You can see some more at this link http://www.ragnhild-monsen.com/video.html

A Level GCE reference artist

2010-06-09T22:19:00.001-07:00

Amazing what you find when you use search engines. It was interesting to find that in the UK GCE Advanced Level examinations in 2007 for Art and Design that Ragnhild Monsen was one of the referenced artists to study. Here's the clip from the examination assignment documents:

textile art website now online

2010-06-09T21:34:00.001-07:00

in a further expansion of internet coverage the artist has purchased the domain textile-art.org and the website is now online

New website - with multimedia - now online

2010-05-30T17:42:00.000-07:00

Hi,
I'm thrilled to inform you that a new designed website is now online

to visit just click the main website link on the taskbar above

Transcendant

2010-05-28T04:19:00.001-07:00

Size: 2.40 x 3.00 M

born (taken from the loom), 15 April 2010

New Online (Flash) Gallery

2010-03-28T13:16:00.001-07:00

A new online gallery (Flash) with a sample of Ragnhild's work can be found HERE

Depending on your internet connection speed it may take a few minutes to load

A large exhibition - ca. 800 sq.metres

2009-10-07T02:05:00.000-07:00

One of the many large exhibitions. This one was held at Galleri Infra in Stockholm.

Sva Maga (sanskrit) Follow Your Path

2009-09-29T12:53:00.000-07:00

click on image for larger picture

size: 2,400 mm x 3,100 mm Hand woven Tapestry

created 2009, exhibited Haugesund and Rognan in Norway

New art soon to come

2009-09-29T04:42:00.000-07:00

We shall soon be uploading some of the new TAPESTRY ART to have been created in the past 12 months…..

watch this space

Blog transferred

2009-09-29T04:15:00.000-07:00

The blog previously located at:

http://artblog.ragnhild-monsen.com/

has now been transferred to here.