Amanda Vesthardt

Amanda Vesthardt (b. 1993, Denmark) is a multidisciplinary/visual artist, with a focus on textile and fiber art. Coming from a background in fashion, she often explores various facets of textile waste and our relationship to objects. Over the past few years, she has become very interested in the relationship between our bodies and the textiles we wear. She has been exploring these notions through installation artworks and textiles within space. The concept of “costumes for the space” is a series of projects in which she researches and experiments with different themes such as our emotional connection to objects, tactile experiences, and storytelling through non-verbal communication like dance and performance. These projects are often executed in collaboration with other artists or designers to implement new perspectives. Most of Amanda’s work is based on the arts and crafts of textiles, involving various techniques such as knitting, tufting, sewing, embroidery, and patchwork. Handcrafting artworks and experimenting with new approaches are constant threads that run through all her works.