Frida Nordenlöw

#Works: September 2018, ”Towel Etiquette”

#Works: ”Futile Practice”, exhibited at Konstfack University in Septemer 2018.

#Works: December 2018 “Futile Practice”

futile - /ˈfjuːtʌɪl/ - adjective: achieving no result; ineffective; useless; not successful

This piece was a continuation of my examinations of the garment and its embodied expression and reminiscence of the human being. This piece is built up of T-shirts that have been deprived of their function – sewn together, stitched shut, made wrong.

“Futile Practice” was exhibited in “How long did it take to make?” in December 2018, a group show by KÅDA Exhibitions, which consists of artists and designers of different nationalities that met through HDK Steneby, in Dalsland.

#Works: May, 2017. Before and after final exam at HDK Steneby. Showing ”Traces”.

The textile body - the garment - is like an extension of the human being. Our garments hold stories, both personal and universal. They do this without our physical bodies being present, like a second layer of skin garments are textile shells – they are physical memories that remain even when a person has left the room. Even when someone dies they stay, as traces left behind.

"Traces" is a hands-on processing of material, but most of all, an emotional processing of loss. To deal with the grief of missing people who have been lost with the passing of time, is something that concerns us all. In every way possible we try to mark and capture time, as have I.

With the use of stitches I have been marking fabric, linking garments together with thread. The stitches are like memories of the movements of the hand, traces of the time that has passed.

#Works: April, 2017. Exam piece ”Traces” in the making.

#Works: Fall 2016

#Works: Summer 2016 “Home"

Light installation. Walls made of hand painted silk fabric, frame made from oak.

#Works: Winter 2015/2016 “Self-portrait in Twenty Pieces” 

This is how I installed my fabric pieces for our exhibition of the Identity project for the second year bachelor's at HDK Steneby, University of Gothenburg. Twenty screenprinted pieces made out of wool. 

#In progress: Late 2015 “Self-portrait in Twenty Pieces”

These are some of the pieces for my material manifesto for the Identity project at HDK Steneby, University of Gothenburg. I have made twenty different prints of a image of me. I am currently figuring out how I wish to present them.

#Previous Works: Fall 2015 “Belle”

Theatre costume made for the character Belle from Sara Stridsberg’s play “Dissection of a Snowfall” during the course “Costume for Stage” at Textile-Garment-Design at HDK Steneby, University of Gothenburg.

All garments are designed and made by me. All pink shades are plant dyed with avocado.

#Previous works: Spring 2015 “Harlequin”

Screenprinted pattern on silk.

#Previous works: Fall 2014 “The Shellmaid”

Made during the course “Body and Volume” at Textile-Garment-Design at HDK Steneby, University of Gothenburg.

#Previous works: Fall 2014 “The Shellmaid”

Made during the course “Body and Volume” at Textile-Garment-Design at HDK Steneby, University of Gothenburg.

#Previous works: 2014 “Solöga” (“Eye of the Sun”)

Handknitted jacket made out of norwegian wool from the Spelsau sheep. I made this garment because I wanted to investigate the effect of using varied shades in the bottom layer and a primary color in the top layer of the knit. I used a special knitting technique which creates a very thick fabric with two completely different sides. The golden/rust yarn is plant dyed with onion peel!

Construction and design by me.

#Previous works: August 2014 Workshop “Material and Texture”

This was the first assignment at our bachelor program at HDK Steneby, Gothenburg University. I was examining texture and structure and ended up making this formation of shell-like fabricpieces.