Q&A
Kristina Austi Kristina Austi

Q&A

The artists has given each other questions to answer:
What does grit mean to you?
How you describe working independently contra working together with somebody?
What does the materials you work with mean to you?

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Karina & Kristina: Dust and matter
Kristina Austi Kristina Austi

Karina & Kristina: Dust and matter

We are both constantly trying to figure out what craft is to us. Is it learning age-old skills and perfecting it until you have it engraved in your muscle memory? Or the ability to understand and accept the possibilities and limitations of a specific material? Is it experimentation? Or perhaps a combination of all the above?

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Outi writes about her work
Kristina Austi Kristina Austi

Outi writes about her work

I often find and work with new materials to bring weaving beyond traditional craft. I recently bought a Karelian table linen from a flee market in the Finnish countryside, handwoven, with Karelian red picking patterns along the cloth, size 200x90cm for 4€ - I thought: "holy shi... Is this really what handwoven pieces are worth to most poeple?"

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Kristina Austi Kristina Austi

Text by Tim Parry-Williams

Online exhibition spaces are yet an emerging phenomenon currently gaining some additional traction as a result of global pandemic lock-down. GRIT is one such exercise, a digital presentation of new work by collaborating artists Kristina Daukintyte Aas and Karina Nøkleby Presttun, based in Norway; and Outi Martikainen, of Finland. All three artists explore the medium of textiles, in related but differing manners, and by the use of multiple tools and approaches.

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