Anne Mette Larsen lives and works in Gl. Ry - Denmark.
Any given material or medium has a built-in resistance or obstruction. For artists, this is often, what stimulates the artistic process in terms of form, and where they challenge the boundaries of the material's ability. Anne Mette Larsen is a weaver, and her resistance is the loom. This universal apparatus has its own logic, grid structure and set of dogmatic rules. Larsen often works with the simplest weaving method “tabby” - also called canvas, in a double-weave technique, where up to 3 layers of thin hand-dyed paper and silk yarn are woven. The yarn intertwines, swaps places and Larsen´s formal grid compositions are abstractions of a classic twist pattern as you find in everyday tablecloths.
With her sublime sensitivity towards color and composition Larsen's oeuvre is influenced by the Bauhaus artist Anni Albers (1899-1994). The Norwegian artist and feminist Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970) has also been of important inspiration; Ryggen was the first female artist to represent Norway at the Venice Biennale in 1964. Significant contemporaries include the American artist and author Michelle Grabner (1962), who the gallery exhibited in 2012. Grabner is known for appropriating checkered and abstract patterns from everyday textiles to paintings and other materials.
Anne Mette Larsen has exhibited extensively in Denmark and internationalt.
Larsen has been awarded numerous grants and prizes and is represented in important collections including The New Carlsberg Foundation, The Danish Arts Foundation & Designmuseum Denmark.