net no. 23 Installation

I'm Irene Anton from Berlin. Well, I was born in the south of Germany in 1966, grew up in the west of Germany, went to the netherlands for two years and finally moved to the east of Germany - Berlin - in 1989, just before the wall was coming down. In between of my lifetime in Berlin, I had an intermezzo of two years, living in Barcelona-Spain. Berlin always used to give me a lot of inspiration, because it's an eternally changing and moving city, where you need to look for and discover it's very special and partly pretty rough beauty. In Berlin, you are not living in a nice "postcard"-city and are confronted with a lot of daily realities. This keeps me awake. I consider myself as a multifaceted artist. The variety of my work consists in design, painting, stained glass, object, installation and landart.In my recent work I use to create in- and outdoor installations and objects for fields, forests and lakes, mostly playing with the power of the elements by mainly using textile materials. After having worked with glass and metal trash materials, another recent development in my work is the creation of small textile objects or those that are in context with textile materials and technics. Im working with various textile technics like for example weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, applicating or any other mixed technic. In my object/relief-work Im crating textile topographies by modelling fabric on canvas or sewing/quilting structures into the unicoloured fabric. My installations are often inspired by nature and natural shapes and structures, like for examples my networks, made of tights.