About the Artist

Anine Estrup is a young artist born in Copenhagen in 1999. Her art is characterized by a personal expression that is both recognizable and different. The female figure is often the focal point of her paintings, and with her art, she show some of the emotions and moods that can accompany being a woman in different everyday situations. Anine often works with snapshots from everyday situations, but the motifs often have a twist of something dysfunctional, surreal and confusing, that makes you want to look again.

About Artist’s Work:

Enjoy the process and the redemption it provides to express a feeling or thought I have had, through my paintings. Whether it’s sadness, boredom or empowerment – it’s all an energy that comes from me and is painted on the canvas. Whether the recipient feels the same is secondary – in the end, my art means what it means to the one who looks at it.

About the Artist

Gitte Kleo is an emerging Fine Art Photographer working with photo manipulations centred around the theme of mental health.

Her artistic journey started at 14 when she borrowed her dad’s SLR camera and fell in love with photography. 

At the age of 21 in 2005 she quit design school to open her photography business as a self-taught portrait and wedding photographer. Due to the financial crisis she had to close her business in 2010 and instead started to work as a freelance photographer and experiment with model photography, artistic nudes in particular.

The Pandemic and a serious back injury made her channel the frustration into her work, where she found her style and love of Fine Art Photography, which in turn made her take herself seriously as an artist.

Each image is a photo manipulation of 15-20 different carefully selected images. This way she builds up the foundation of the story she wants to tell. 

She loves to play with texture and bright colours, which she uses as a contrast to the big emotions and dark feelings in the images.

Artist Statement

I create art around the topic of mental vulnerability because I feel strongly about showing that it is possible to overcome mental health issues like depression and anxiety.

I have battled with depression and anxiety for 10 years. A struggle that my art has helped me get through. But seeing my partner and a fair share of family and friends struggling with these diagnoses as well made me realize that I want to focus my work on “the feelings that we don’t talk about”.

I want to open the conversation about mental health, because so many people are afraid of talking about this topic, and I want to be the one to start the conversations.

My art is meant to make people think deeper about their own vulnerability, and to help people see that they’re not alone with their struggles.

I want to create a feeling of a community mainly for women around vulnerability through art, and I want to inspire them to open up and share their journeys. The more we talk about our own vulnerability, the better we can understand each other and our own inner self.