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Kent Henricksen’s work draws us in with his use of the traditional medium of embroidery. His use of this unthreatening medium packs a punch, once we are in he then disrupts our peace with his grim imagery.

info from Cross magazine
via extreme craft and we make money not art
more images from his exhibitions at john connelly and seite

image ‘Country Life’ Embroidery thread on printed fabric mounted on wood

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This entry was posted on Sunday, February 19th, 2006 at 3:23 pm and is filed under exhibitions+design+extreme, felting+fibre+needlework. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will be moderated but will appear as soon as humanly possible.

3 Comments on “kent henricksen”

  1. mijk Says:
    February 19th, 2006 at 8:43 pm

    The dutch ‘textielmuseum’ has a exposition on embroidery too. http://www.textielmuseum.nl

    This gives me more food for thought than the stuff on thgeir website though..

  2. Mevrouw Walvis Says:
    February 20th, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    Some of his work is currently on show at the museum of contemporary art Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland) as part of a Ars 06 -exhibition. If you happen to be in Helsinki, go see it!

  3. Drawn! The Illustration Blog » Blog Archive » Illustrating with embroidery Says:
    March 9th, 2006 at 12:03 am

    [...] several recent posts there. Kathreen points us towardss the embroidered illustrations of Kent Henricksen and Sandine Pelletier. Whip Up also offers several links to the embroidered comic [...]

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