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Gitte Steen Andersen, MFA (hons) 

Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1963. My father was a painter, and I have been painting more or less my whole life. In 1999 I moved to New Zealand to start up a new business together with my husband, and after successfully having started Crossware Ltd, I decided to take some time out for myself and started studying Fine Art. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Whitecliffe College of Art & Design in Auckland in 2007 and in March 2010 I was awarded a Master of Fine Art, also from Whitecliffe. 

Coming from Scandinavia I was brought up with a passion for design – uncluttered simplicity which creates a greater sense of light, combined with clean lines and organic shapes. My work is often very playful and questions the liminal space or ‘the third space’ – the space in between cultures. I have empathy for materials, and involve my viewers by using fabric and other textured materials in my work; fabric which gives associations to domestic life, narratives and reality, countering the excess of information and imagery that has subsumed our everyday lives.    

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