Margrethe Odgaard

Overview
Margrethe Odgaard
”It all comes down to colour, pattern and tactility. In my work and collaborations I find myself in a constant search for new and interesting ways to renew our vows with our senses, as a nurishing confirmation of existence”.
Colours matter, and so does working with them. Odgaard: ”Working with colours and patterns is like playing music. A note on a piano has a certain sound, but it is only when it is put together with other tones that it becomes a melody. In the same way, one can speak of hue, saturation and brightness of a singular colour, but when two or more colours are put together, they form an inner hierarchy and  rhythm, influencing the perception visually and emotionally”.
Odgaard has a broad notion of textiles, considering the textile medium not only fibers but also the surface of our surroundings. She believes that objects made with diligence and care, has a higher probability of reproducing a similar behavior among people. 
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Works
  • Letter Four (A fish leaping gracefully toward a million shimmering leaves, swimming against the current toward the light)
    Letter Four (A fish leaping gracefully toward a million shimmering leaves, swimming against the current toward the light) 
  • Letter Six (The world outside was pitch-black with faint starlight)
    Letter Six (The world outside was pitch-black with faint starlight) 
  • Letter Seven (Their golden, chestnutbrown hair dampened by the rain, glittered in the sunset)
    Letter Seven (Their golden, chestnutbrown hair dampened by the rain, glittered in the sunset)
  • Letter Nine (I had promised you an earth burial)
    Letter Nine (I had promised you an earth burial) 
  • Letter Ten (The clean white jade of love)
    Letter Ten (The clean white jade of love) 
  • Letter Eleven (On fire in the palm of your hand)
    Letter Eleven (On fire in the palm of your hand) 
  • Letter Twelve (The sky is already growing light over Montmartre)
    Letter Twelve (The sky is already growing light over Montmartre) 
  • Letter Thirteen (I have offered you a vivid internal blueprint)
    Letter Thirteen (I have offered you a vivid internal blueprint) 
  • Letter Fourteen (We carried the pink-eyed male rabbit)
    Letter Fourteen (We carried the pink-eyed male rabbit) 
  • Letter Fifteen (I had arrived at the edge of a sea of fire)
    Letter Fifteen (I had arrived at the edge of a sea of fire) 
  • Letter Sixteen (I long to lie down quietly by the banks of a blue lake and die)
    Letter Sixteen (I long to lie down quietly by the banks of a blue lake and die) 
  • Letter Seventeen (Before I left Paris, I bought an entirely new outfit)
    Letter Seventeen (Before I left Paris, I bought an entirely new outfit) 
  • Letter Eighteen (The black so elegant, the yellow so eye-catching)
    Letter Eighteen (The black so elegant, the yellow so eye-catching) 
  • Letter Nineteen (Good night, my Zoë with the wild hair standing on end against the violet)
    Letter Nineteen (Good night, my Zoë with the wild hair standing on end against the violet) 
  • Letter Twenty (My life in Paris is entering a blooming thicket)
    Letter Twenty (My life in Paris is entering a blooming thicket) 
  • E-Field (c)
    E-Field (c)
  • Dioptric W380
    Dioptric W380
  • Dioptric 410
    Dioptric 410
  • Dioptric 520
    Dioptric 520
  • Ophelia Prologue 012025
    Ophelia Prologue 012025
  • Ophelia Prologue 022025
    Ophelia Prologue 022025
Biography
Margrethe Odgaard
Margrethe Odgaard was born in 1978 on the peninsula Thyholm in Denmark, and she lives and works in Elsinore. After graduating her MFA in textiles from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design in 2005 with additional studies at Rhode Island School of design in USA, she worked two years as a printing assistant at The Fabric Workshopand Museum in Philadelphia, USA, followed by seven years as a textile designer in the French fashion company EPICE. She has received national and international awards and recognition for her work, which she unfolds in exhibitions as well as commercial collaborations with clients such as Kvadrat, Muuto, Montana, Ikea, and Hay.In 2016 she was awarded the prestigious Torsten & Wanja Söderberg Prize, and in 2015 she recieved The Danish Art Foundation’s 3-year working grant. Among other collections, her work is included in the museum collections of Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York, Designmuseo Helsinki, Röhsska Museum of Art and Craft, and Designmuseum Denmark.As a consequence of her dedicated work with colours, Odgaard has developed several colour indexes. Colours precede form in the understanding of objects; according to the Institute of Colour Research in USA it takes less than 90 seconds to perceive an object, and between 62 and 90 percentage of the interpretation is based on the colours alone. 
 
 In addition to running her own studio, Odgaard is one of two Founders of the company Applied Colour Tools Aps in 2020, which is dedicated to help bridging colour theory and practice for architects and designers
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