Sarah Becker - Grøftekant I

H 45 x W 42cm

Danish artist Sarah Becker uses embroidery as her expressive medium, driven by a deep fascination with fabric—its texture, color, and sensitivity. But her embroidery is far from traditional. Instead, Becker paints with needle and thread, inventing her own techniques to push the boundaries of the craft and create a signature visual language.

She works with coarse yarns, thick wool, and recycled materials—each with a history that becomes part of the story she tells. Rejecting the conventions of scale, Becker approaches embroidery like a painter, working standing up and on large canvases to fully assert her artistic vision.

Light, shadow, layering, and color are central to her process. Her work explores themes of maturity, erosion, and transformation, often through exaggerated forms and distorted proportions. Rather than undoing stitches she’s unsatisfied with, she embroiders over them, building depth and tension. Some surfaces are richly saturated to create thick, almost tactile textures, while others are deliberately left bare, allowing space and contrast to emerge.

Becker’s embroidered works are layered and dimensional, each piece carrying her unmistakable mark. Always evolving but instantly recognizable, her pieces redefine embroidery as a powerful and contemporary art form.