SeptemberRUM Sia Mai, Annemette Kissow, Jeanette List Amstrup og Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidtshow their first collaborative exhibition in the Ann Linnemann studie galleri. Ann Linnemann Gallery September 3 - 26 2009 This exhibition presents a common space/room (= Danish RUM) for their new projects, prototypes and design products, which they are individually developing, ... here and now. The exhibition at The Ann Linnemann Gallery is their first collaborative exhibition since they started 20 years ago at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen. After graduation they have worked with ceramics and glass either as unique pieces or for serial production. Their products are represented in The Crafts Collection, Denmark. They have designed for companies including Kähler, Holmegaard, Höganäs Keramik, Ikea, Vipp and Normann Copenhagen, and exhibited in Denmark and Internationally. www.siamai.dk www.listamstrup.dk www.vibekefonnesbergschmidt.dk www.annemettekissow.dk
Akio Takamori The exhibition in 2009 shows new work by Akio Takamori USA/Japan The work is made in Denmark 2009. Ann Linnemann studio gallery 6 - 29 August 2009
Landscape Blue - Body Blue Paul Scott & Ann Linnemann collaboration
These objects are the result of a collaboration between Paul Scott and Ann Linnemann, which began in 2004 when they worked together on sculptural forms for their exhibition Body Blue at the former Gallery Nørby in Copenhagen.
Coffee and tea sets The printed and lustered fine porcelain cups are the first of a planned series of tableware sets and objects.
The porcelain forms are hand thrown and glazed by Ann in her studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. Paul creates the graphic then screen-prints in-glaze ceramic decals in his studio in Blencogo, Cumbria, England. The finished objects, which undergo four firings before completion, are created both in Copenhagen and Blencogo - as each artist shares and applies the available limited printed decals to the porcelain before adding the gold or platinum lustre rim. All forms are signed and stamped.
Summer and Winter cups The patterned graphic surface of some of these first cups is based on trees in Kongens Have (Kings Garden) Copenhagen.
The summer tree sets are also available as tea-light holders, and small porcelain ‘shots glasses’. Other new patterns include rims and borders adapted from industrial prints, and porcelain plates and trays.
We are interested in the way the hand made and the industrial can meld to create objects of use and beauty, but although we are working with thrown form and print we are not interested in our own 'mass production'. Only a limited number of the objects are being created.
Half of the forms with a particular pattern or graphic will be available from Paul and half from Ann.
The cups lights and shots are the first of the series to be made available, a small number were exhibited and sold at the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh during the summer 2008, and others are available from Ann’s Gallery in Copenhagen, and from Paul Scott in Cumbria.
I am a ceramic artist, potter and designer. In 1983, I completed a traditional four-year Danish apprenticeship in studio pottery at H. A. Kähler, DK. In 1998, I graduated as a ceramic designer from the Denmark Design Academy (now: KADK) in Copenhagen. Important influences in my work are travels and studio residencies in Japan, the USA at Archie Bray Foundation and Arizona State University, Canada at Banff Arts Center, China, Australia, South America, Egypt and Europe. I enjoy teaching and have developed a great interest in promoting ceramic art, collaboration projects and developing international relationships. In 2001-2007, I worked as the director of the International Ceramic Research Center - Guldagergaard in Denmark. In my studio, I design and produce hand-thrown series of functional tableware in porcelain, stoneware and earthenware. I also work with sculptural vessels embodied with elements of the human form and glaze painting. The sculptures reference my fascination with various cultures, the human body and mind. My studio and gallery is located in Copenhagen City. Ann Linnemann Gallery, Kronprinsessegade 51, 1306-K Copenhagen.