Heerup Museum presents a special exhibition of tapestries by Nanna Hertoft, one of Denmark's important weavers, whose work spans five decades. The show brings together a selection of vivid, lyrical picture weavings, from strictly built modular rugs to freer, nature-based tapestries and large commissioned decorative works.
Hertoft, a self-taught weaver and daughter of the artists Henry and Mille Heerup, works with hand-spun yarns she dyes herself using madder, lichen and other natural materials. Inspired by natural elements and phenomena, she composes large works directly on the loom, and the exhibition offers rare insight into this hands-on working process. Many of the tapestries are being lent from collections across Denmark.
