The unveiling ·

All ninety plates, hung end to end

The first chance to see the complete frieze together. Walk the 42 published prints below before the unveiling.

The story

Eight chapters, one conquest

The frieze follows the original tapestry from King Edward’s court to Hastings and on past its lost ending. Choose a chapter to jump to it on the wall.

    Visit

    See it in person

    The prints are made to be seen at full size: twenty centimetres high, eighty long, ninety in a row.

    The unveiling

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    Plates are released as the unveiling approaches. Send an email to join the list and hear when the next one comes out of the press.

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    The artist

    Susanne Thea was born in Denmark in 1954 and trained in Denmark and Australia. She works from Korsør with copper etching, woodcut and monotype, techniques more than four hundred years old. She made the ninety plates of the Paraphrase between 2004 and 2006.

    Where it has been shown

    1. 2006Rundetaarn, København / Copenhagen
    2. 2007National Print Museum, Dublin
    3. 2011Museum of Printing History, Houston
    4. 2013Næstved Kunstforening
    5. 2014Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux
    6. 2016Tobaksgaarden, Assens

    The book

    Parafrase over Bayeux Tapetet. Forlaget JA, 2011. Every plate, with the artist’s commentary.