Skills & Experience
  • Gallery Attendant, National Galleries of Scotland, 2022 - present
  • Artists at Work 2 (staff exhibition), National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, 2022 - 2023
  • Founding Events Manager and President, The Edinburgh Gallery Society 2021 - 2022, 2022 - 2023
Bio

Working between painting and textiles, Astrid’s minimal approach to landscape centres on time, labour, and the sea; tracing its movement on the surface of the beach. Stitching by hand, weaving thread in and out of fabric, before flooding the surface with washes of paint mimics the movements of the tides, meditating on their repetitive yet unrepeatable nature. By removing her work from observable representation, and focusing on the labour of creating the line, she explores the value of time and labour amidst an increasing turn toward nature and the handmade. 

 

There is a comfort to be found in the unchanging familiarity of the shore. While the water is always shifting, the outward appearance remains largely the same, weathered only by the sands of time. Her interest in this contradiction is tied to an emotional attachment to the sea of her native Sweden, and perhaps more universally, vexed feelings of a sense of place or belonging. In creating a surface through stitch and woven lines, she interrogates the process of making in response to her experience. The materiality of the inanimate threads, far removed from the living tide, immerses the viewer in the tension between process and representation. 

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