INGUNN BAKKE

I draw and construct geometric patterns digitally, then, using modules, create them in large formats. My working process is all about form, repetition, rhythm, colour and order. I enjoy working with installations, and my ambition is to develop a sort of dialogue between the works of art and the specific spaces where they are exhibited. Until recently, I was printing patterns on wool and silk cloth. Currently, I’m exploring ‘textile’ practices and traditions which have been applied to wood-based and harder materials. I see myself as strongly rooted in a Nordic textile tradition.

Ingunn Bakke (b. 1966 in Høyanger, Norway) lives and works in Oslo. She studied at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (degree, 1994), where she has been employed as a workshop master for 25 years. She has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in Norway and abroad and is represented in the collections of the National Museum in Oslo, Sogn and Fjordane Kunstmuseum in Førde and KODE Art Museums in Bergen.