Anne-Karin Furunes founded the Art and Common Space programme at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) where she is a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. Furunes describes her works as fleeting images, and her practice as one of drawing with holes. She is known for portraits and paintings based on archival photographs that take a stand for the marginalized, silenced and forgotten individuals, expanding also to include landscapes and elements from nature. With her signature technique she manually perforates canvas painted with black acrylic with thousands of holes, letting through varying degrees of light. The method of removing in order to reveal complements her practice that often focuses on forgotten or silenced histories and people. The changing nature of the works is linked to the problematic of depicting the past.