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ARTIST AND TC1-OWNER GRETHE SOERENSEN WAS IN NORWAY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INAUGURATION OF HER COMMISSIONS AT THE NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES (UNMB), JUST SOUTH OF OSLO. VIBEKE, WHO’S KNOWN GRETHE FOR DECADES NOW, PENS DOWN MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST AND HER WORKS. WORDS AND PICTURES - VIBEKE VESTBY
Textile artist Grethe Soerensen is active as ever before: a few days ago she and her partner Bo Hovgaard came to Norway to participate at the inauguration of her commissions at the UNMB, just south of Oslo. Just before the trip to Norway, they completed a big commission for a brand new children’s school in Aarhus, Denmark, and the week after Norway they will be in Paris for the opening of an exhibition in her gallery there! (8.September - 25. Oktober 2016 ‘Watermirror’ Galerie Maria Wettergren, Paris, France.). The commissions Grethe made at the NMBU are located in two auditoriums, one devoted to marine life and one to the realm of domestic animals. Both walls are divided up due to the double entrance doors. Both walls are divided up due to the double entrance doors.