I am so excited about working with curator Chris Wan and the Hong Kong based gallery Zhen Porcelain.
My participation has been supported by Norwegian Crafts and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Go to zhenporcelain.com for the full spread.
I am so excited about working with curator Chris Wan and the Hong Kong based gallery Zhen Porcelain.
My participation has been supported by Norwegian Crafts and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Go to zhenporcelain.com for the full spread.
In the autumn of 2016 Lufthansa celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in Norway. I was commissioned by Lufthansa to create an origami piece involving the crane. Each one is a folded crane, made of porcelain instead of paper.
I made a system where all the porcelain cranes would fit into each other – making a repetitive pattern.
After being exhibited the work was auctioned. Proceeds from the auction went to Lufthansa’s charity programme “Help Alliance”, supporting education for women in Benin, west Africa.
These photos are from one of the anniversary events, where I presented my work.
More images here.
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Biennale de la Céramique 2015 – Exposition de Céramique Contemporaine.
May 24-June 7, 2015
For the Biennale de la Céramique 2015 – Exposition de céramique contemporaine thématique Frontier, I will exhibit three wall panels titled Folded Porcelain, Triptych.
Folded Porcelain is the title of a series of wall panels made in very thin porcelain consisting of two different forms that folds and mounts inside each other.
In Folded Porcelain, Triptych, different nuances of blue are combined with just a few elements of black. The different tones and the darker areas foster distinct boundaries and frontiers, but at the same time the work stands as a cohesive piece where linear elements are fused.
The Biennial of Ceramics is an artistic and cultural event that takes place in Andenne, Belgium since 1988 and has acquired over editions a national and international recognition.
The event aspires to revive the industrial ceramic history of the city and to build a relationship with contemporary ceramists.
Exhibitions of contemporary ceramics make possible the showing of collections of works expressing the diversity of contemporary ceramics in the world.
They first aim to show major forms of expression and highlight the diversity of expressions, aesthetic renewals, new nuances in research and experiments of the ceramic material.
The exhibition will be presented in the Cultural Center of Andenne.
My participation is supported by:
Norwegian Crafts and
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
My artwork, Folded Porcelain, just won silver prize at the 2014 Nantong International Contemporary Craft Biennale. Yeayh!
In 2007 I spent three months working at Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park and their Artist in Residence Program. Together with artists from all over the world, we all lived and worked together. Highlights from this period is by far meeting the people in Shigaraki, especially Minori and Takaisan, Italian artist Sandro Lorenzini, my partner in crime Marita Isobel Solberg, the famous Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, and many, many more. The work process was very important to me. I spent a lot of time at the local research centre, where I did a lot of testing, and I came up with a phosphorescent ceramic silkscreen colour that could glow in the dark. A lot happened after this.
Also working in the incredible studio facilities. Never been working a place with a kiln that big!
The amazing park and the Museum located around the studio area was just breath taking everyday, and then there was the Lotus pond… and the hills, the nature, all so green and beautiful. I loved the stillness in this village.
And I got to meet the Emperor and Empress of Japan, quite a unique moment. The picture is from Japan’s leading newspaper Asahi.
And of course I went to Kyoto and Tokyo. In Tokyo I lived like Scarlett in Lost in translation. I remember laying in the bathtub and watching the Tokyo skyline. Hope to go back some day.