Merry Christmas 2011

Ragnhild Monsen on Facebook – not active

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)

Cut down from the weaving loom tuesday 13th September 2011

size: 2.40 m  x  2.40m

Peder Balke centre exhibition

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

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

Vakkert Mysterium – Beautiful Mystery

Intratråd - 002

Intratråd -01

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

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

Sandefjord Kunstforrening