Birte Larsen
Beneath & Beyond
Sep 25 - Oct 18, 2026
Opening Reception: Sat, Sep 26, 2-4pm
Birte Larsen
b. 1966, Fynen, Denmark
Lives and works in the Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia
Birte Larsen is an observational artist working across a multitude of disciplines and materials.
Larsen sees the extraordinary in the mundane and focusses in on the everyday while often drawing on personal history and her cultural heritage. Larsen admires the detail in the natural and discarded materials and often incorporates these into her work through focussing on the unique patterns as well as the material significance. Larsen loves to be the conduit between what was and what is going to be. The prior use or history of the material gives great inspiration and the quantity of the material collected or grown, dictates the scale and number of works that are made. Larsen’s Danish heritage has contributed to both her process, material selection as well as her overall philosophy and aesthetic sensibility.
Larsen lives and works to the mantra: Do what you can, where you are with what you have!
Birte Larsen, Strands of Connection, 2026, Elder, garlic top and raffia, 79 x 160 x 10 cm
Birte Larsen, Interwoven, 2026, Elder and garlic cordage, 230 x 150 x 8 cm
Birte Larsen, Held, 2026, Elder and garlic cordage, 120 x 52 x 9 cm
Birte Larsen, Manifold, 2026, Elder and copper wire, 76 x 55 x 5.5 cm (Variable)
Birte Larsen, Finding Space I, 2026, iron, elder and copper wire, 89 x 70 x 22 cm
Birte Larsen, Finding Space II, 2026, iron, elder and copper wire, 89 x 66 x 19 cm
Birte Larsen, Finding Space III, 2026, iron, elder and copper wire, 84 x 70 x 15 cm
Birte Larsen, Finding Space, 2026, iron, elder and copper wire, 70 x 226 x 22 cm