Anne Mette Larsen (b. 1961) is one of Denmark’s leading contemporary textile artists. Her practice explores the meeting point between colour, geometry and material, drawing on the history of modernist weaving while developing a distinctly personal and contemporary language.
Working entirely by hand, Larsen dyes and weaves Japanese paper yarn into intricate textile compositions. Her works are informed by the pioneering experiments of Anni Albers and the tradition of modernist textile art, while simultaneously engaging with the visual language of geometric abstraction.
Larsen’s compositions are structured through grids, blocks and intersecting fields of colour. Within these seemingly ordered structures, subtle irregularities, shifts in density and colour variations create a quiet sense of movement and tension. The delicate Japanese paper threads lend the surfaces an exceptional lightness and luminosity, allowing the works to respond sensitively to changing light and the viewer’s position.
Her practice occupies a space between weaving, painting and object. The rigorous use of repetition, rhythm and structure is balanced by the tactile and time-intensive nature of the handmade process. Colour becomes both a compositional tool and a material presence, while the grid functions not as a fixed system but as an open framework for exploration.
Through this synthesis of material, colour and geometric form, Larsen has established a significant position within the Danish textile art scene. Her work reflects the continuing relevance of textile as a medium for contemporary abstraction, while maintaining a profound connection to the history, craft and physicality of weaving.
Larsen’s works are represented in numerous prominent Danish collections, including the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Collection, Designmuseum Danmark and the National Art Foundation Collection.