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Ane Thon Knutsen
Oslo
Graphic designer, artist, letterpress printer and associate professor and artistic researcher at The Oslo National Academy of The Arts.
In her artistic research work Knutsen creates artist books and immersive experiences centered on the interplay between the materiality of words and the abstract realm of thoughts. She delves into the intricate relationship between prose, the physicality of the printing process, offering a nuanced perspective on the synthesis of literature and graphic design, often intertwining personal reflections with literary and artistic analyses. Knutsen has a special interest in self-taught women on the distaff side of print history, like Virginia Woolf and Nancy Cunard.
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On Being Ill - A covid 19 diary (2024)
ISBN–9788270384303
A digital documentation of letterpress printing one sentence form Virginia Woolfs essay On Being Ill everyday from March 23rd - August 29th 2020 and sharing the prints on social media.
A Printingpress of One's Own (2017)
ISBN–9788269071924
An essay refering to “A room of ones own” by Virginia Woolf. The essay reflects upon womens role in letterpress, and the importance of a room of ones own in artistic practices.
In this book I am investigating the first books printed by Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, both in practice and in the written “dialogue” between Virginia Woolf and I, as we are both self taught type setters. The illustrations are linocuts by my sister & artist, Ylve Thon. All text is hand set & printed together with linocuts on a proofingpress. Handbound in edition of 25. The English digitally set version contains handprinted linocuts, handbound in edition of a 100.
On Being Ill (2020)
Virginia Woolfs essay On Being Ill letterpress printed daily from March 23rd to August 29th 2020 on single sheets of paper. Documenting slow reading as a diary and coping mechanism through the first wave of Covid 19.
