Ellen Dynebrink is a textile artist who primarily works with patchwork. In her artistic practice, she consistently explores themes related to the gap between the figurative and the abstract, as well as questions concerning how we read and interpret subjectivity and objecthood, for example, in the relationship between “gaze” and “image.”

Her works are often based on photographs of textiles—draperies, folds, movements—and the final result becomes a kind of montage of textile patches that together depict a suspended textile. Ellen’s process begins with digitally manipulating images of textiles, where she actively seeks out noise, distortions, and “glitches,” which she then translates into patchwork. Through the conditions and limitations of patchwork, as well as the qualities of the textile materials, new shifts, abstractions, and interpretations emerge. This interplay between the digital and textile media forms the core of her artistic practice.

Ellen Dynebrink holds an MFA in Textile Art from HDK-Valand at the University of Gothenburg (2017) and a BFA in Textile Design from the Swedish School of Textiles (2014). Her works have been exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally, including Charlottenborg Kunsthall (Copenhagen), Liljevalchs Spring Salon, 3:e Våningen / GIBCA Extended, Open Craft, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Nina Sagt Gallery (Düsseldorf), and Konsthall C. She has participated in various residencies, ranging from a week at the Nordic Watercolour Museum in 2020 to six months at IASPIS, Stockholm, from 2021 to 2022, and a month during the summer of 2024 in Wassaic, outside New York. Her work has been highlighted multiple times in publications such as Hemslöjd, Form Magazine, and Göteborgs-Posten, and in the spring of 2024, she was awarded the Gothenburg City Cultural Grant.