Axel and Ingrid Becker live and work on a small farm in Stadsbygd, Trøndelag.
For more than 35 years, Axel Becker has worked with textile printing and dyed textiles with natural indigo. His blue works are based on an old craft, with a recipe from 1847, which is listed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. For his sculptural works in wood, he uses materials from trees that have fallen in storms.
Ingrid Becker is trained in textiles and education, and has been active as a craft artist and artist in Norway since 1977. She mainly works with sculptural woven forms made from natural materials such as bark, willow, roots, reeds and other natural fibres. For the past 20 years, Becker has explored the possibilities inherent in beholderen as a sculptural form and bearer of meaning. The objects have taken the form of woven containers in various forms, such as baskets, dishes, trays, jars, bowls, cocoons, cradles or abstract forms. They all symbolise beholderen and its roots in the story of human origins – as a tool used to gather, carry and tell.
The exhibition is part of TronTalks
Exhibition opening August 26 at 6:00 PM