Our time is so different from the past. We cannot imagine a life without digital tools.

But it is not long since our parrents, grandparrents and great grand-parrents lived a total different live.100 years or two-three generations ago. Do they have anything to tell us?

What does the past tell us and can we learn something from them?

These questions inspire me to work om this textile project.

I want to convey stories about those who were before us,and pass them on to the next generations.

Photographs from old family-album inspire. I convert some of them into hand-woven textile-works.

It gives me the opportunity to enter alle the personal expressions that the people have left behind through the family stories about them.

Dorthe Herup.

Member of Norwegian Association for textile Art.

Education: Nasjonal College of Art and Design in Kolding, Denmark. In Oslo and Bergen Norway.

Juried Group Exhibition:

2021. NordArt21, Büdelsdorf Germany

2021. Artapestry6 Silkeborg ArtCenter, Denmark

2020. November-Exhibition, Drammen, Norway

2020. Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Denmark

2019. Statens 132 exhibition, Oslo, Norway

2019  PortraitNow, Fredensborg Castle Hillerød, Denmark

2018 Contextile -18, Guimaraes, Portugal

2018 Artapestry 5, Denmark, Sweden, Latvia and Rumania 

2017 6th, Triennial of Tapestry, Novi Sad, Serbia 

T2017 reasure Island. St. Petersburg, Russia 

2016 "Face to Face" Minitextile, Bratislava, Slovakia

2015 og 2018. 5th and 6th Riga International Textile and Fibre Triennial "Tradition and Innovation" Latvia

2015 Artapestry4, Finnland, Germany, Austria and Denmark

2014 Artapestry 3. Sweden, Denmark and Latvia.