ABOUT MY WORK

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I am an artist who has developed a multidisciplinary practice that spans mix media works, ceramic sculpture, glass objects, and stop motion animations.

 

My works are dense and compressed in their form. In my pieces, I work with layered compositions of color fields and materials — paint, cutouts, graphic prints, oil pastels, cardboard, and foil — to build compact, tactile surfaces. I navigate between figuration and abstraction, allowing the recognizable to dissolve into the dreamlike.

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Mette`s works explores contemporary urban life and humanity’s evolving relationship with nature. Often, her works reflect the psychological contrasts in how we perceive the natural world—catastrophe and harmony, beauty and horror.

​​Vangsgaard engages with urban structures and the experience of city space as well as nature as space. Her work ranges from refined, color-sensitive expressions to the raw and unpolished, reflecting a dynamic and multifaceted portrait of our time. Viewers are often invited into an emotional and social dialogue with both the urban and the natural landscapes she portrays.

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Mette Vangsgaard lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. In 2011, she was awarded a three-year working grant by the Danish Arts Foundation.