Trine Mauritz has been exploring the Japanese Shibori colouring technique for several years and she has become one of the leading artists in Norway and Scandinavia using this technique. She has introduced Shibori to Norway and effectively made it a term in specialised contemporary Norwegian art.
Trine Mauritz is working with wool and integrating principles of dying and artistic expression. In her own words her goal is to ‘create monumentalness and strictness in order to obtain a fusion with basic principles of architecture‘. Consequently, she says that what characterises her artistic production is first and foremost the search for ways to create different light effects and volume in the plane. ‘I do what I have to do to minimise disturbing elements, only concentrating on plane, space and light. The play of colour values, ranging from dark to the original white wool material, values in light and shadows, can be obtained by dyeing or simply by twisting the material.’
Trine Mauritz has been displaying her work in several independent exhibitions in addition to participating in numerous other exhibitions. She has received the Annual Prize from the Norwegian Arts and Crafts Association in 1998. She has won many decoration competitions and been given several commissions. Her works have also been bought by several museums, among others the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway and the Shibori Museum in Nagoya, Japan. Trine Mauritz has a master’s degree in textiles from the Bergen National Academy of the Arts and has also completed a degree at the Kolding School of Design in Denmark.
The 8th International Shibori Symposium 2011 is held in Hong Kong from 28 December 2011 to 2 January 2012. Read more about the exhibition here.