Setups - Exhibition August 2010

Setups
Lone Skov Madsen & Turi Heisselberg Pedersen DK
Exhibition August 5 – 28 2010

The two ceramic artists have found inspiration in the storage space, the depot. Last year this interest resulted in the exhibition 'Time Out' at the Danish Museum of Art and Design (Kunstindustrimuseet), where their ceramic pieces were exhibited interacting with the Museum pieces.

This exhibition has developed from their own studio stock and holds a wide spectrum of their individual pieces in dialogue, randomly set up or neatly arranged. The viewer is invited to investigate the 'setups' echoing the funny appearances in a depot where things are put aside or sorted.

Lone Skov Madsen's pieces are intense studies of form. The sculptural objects often have white 'dotted' surfaces or layers of glaze in dark nuances.
Lone Skov Madsen

Turi Heisselberg Pedersen's ceramic pieces link to the traditional context of ceramics. The vases, jars and bowls reflect architectural details or artefacts in our surroundings creating space and visualisation by the use of tactility and colour.
Turi Heisselberg Pedersen

Lone Skov Madsen and Turi Heisselberg Pedersen have exhibited together both in Denmark and International; for example at the exhibitions: ’Kilns of Denmark’ at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, ’Statistic-Ceramic - New Danish Ceramics' at Röhsska Museum, Göteborg and Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, and presently at the 'XXIe Biennale de Vallauris' in France.

Things in Commom - June 2010

Things in Common
Prue Venables & Kirsten Coelho AU, Ann Linnemann DK
Exhibition 3 June – 3 July 2010

The two Australian ceramic artists Kirsten Coelho and Prue Venables exhibit together with Danish artist Ann Linnemann. All of them work with unique functional hand-thrown porcelain pieces, that contains a kind of 'story'. They met in England and later Australia, where they discovered various similarities in form language, idea, material and working methods. They have exhibited together in Australia and currently show their work at this collaborative exhibition in Denmark.

Things in Common – from Australia to Denmark

Kirsten Coelho ”finds beauty in the decay of iron. Eternally balanced and still, confident in the space they inhabit, her works also bear stigmata-like marks of mortality and poignant change. This exhibition includes opalescent and matt white glazed forms punctuated or banded with judiciously applied iron oxide. Other pieces have cool celadon glazes resting on rims and shoulders above iron-rich tenmoku glaze, forming a delicate transitional zone, suggestive of landscapes and mist-shrouded skylines.”
(text by Stephen Bowers, AU).
http://kirstencoelho.srivilasa.com/

Prue Venables “makes the shift to porcelain the natural step for anyone looking for hardness and ringing clarity. Her objects are confidently utilitarian, with deliberate but understated echoes of the purposeful crispness and functionality found in laboratory funnels and crucibles. Venables wears her technical mastery lightly. Her resilient pieces are completely explicable to common sense as they glow softly with reflected light and colour. Delicately referencing materials like metal, stone and glass in a way that is unexpected, her household objects acquire an element of paradox that enlarges the imagination.”
(text by Stephen Bowers, AU).
Prue Venables: Mossgreen gallery - artists & Beaver galleries

Ann Linnemann shows in this new work her fascination of the decorative, story-telling image interacting with the functional object. The translucent porcelain pieces show 'landscapes' painted in alkalic ash glazes and ceramic crayons. She searches in her own language and new materials to express relationships between image and decoration in poetic, sensitive 'water colour' brush strokes describing the landscape, changes in nature, lines on the horizon or abstract dream motives, the atmosphere or scene of a landscape, a culture. The personal 'things' link her visions and memories to the everyday experience and ritual. Ann Linnemann

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.’ Logo: www.australiacouncil.gov.au/aboutus/logos
Furthermore acknowledgement to the Arts Victoria http://www.arts.vic.gov.au/

Contrast - Exhibition May 2010

Contrast
Sten Lykke Madsen & Marianne Nielsen DK

Exhibition 7 – 29 May 2010

Sten Lykke Madsen & Marianne Nielsen exhibit their narrative work at this joint exhibition, where the fabulous raw and mysterious figures of Sten Lykke contrast Mariannes fine themes from hair pieces to 'knitting' in porcelain.

Ceramics in contrast... from fable figures to hair and knitting in porcelain.

Their 40 years difference in experience and career show up as contrasts in idea and form. Both the exhibitors were educated at a Danish educational institution for art, craft and design, Sten Lykke in Copenhagen (1958) and Marianne in a new design era at the Design School in Kolding/Jytland (1999). Furthermore they have both worked for the Danish ceramic industry at Royal Copenhagen: Sten 1986-2003 and Marianne 1999/2000, and for the Kähler pottery factory Sten Lykke worked in 1958 and Marianne for the Kähler industry production currently.

Sten Lykke Madsen
Sten Lykke invites us into a world of figures that reminds us of the volcanic dust from Iceland drifting over our heads, stopping the fast traffic and giving us time for contemplation of the unknown depths of the mind. www.stenlykkemadsen.com/

Marianne Nielsen
Marianne primarily works with 'unica' – a mainly thematic series of pieces without 'function'. The frame of her works are often everyday functional objects and decorative motives, that are so natural in our culture that they have become notions.www.mariannenielsen.com/

Happenstance - Exhibition April 2010

Happenstance
Neil Brownsword UK & Karen Harsbo DK
Exhibition 9 – 30 April 2010

Ceramic in layers ... about materials and the time we live in.

Happenstance
Neil Brownsword and Karen Harsbo investigate how known ceramic methods and materials are treated differently to what tradition subscribes. When the known suddenly becomes different! What happens when 'things' are done to known materials in new ways? The exhibition project developed partly in their private practice and partly in collaboration at 'Experimental Workshops'.
The title 'Happenstance' (accident, chance, fluke, twist of fate...) sums up what they do physically and still gives breadth for other interpretations.

Neil Brownsword is an artist, senior lecturer and researcher at Buckinghamshire New University. His PhD thesis (completed in 2006) combined historical and archaeological research on ceramic production in North Staffordshire from the eighteenth century to the present; the film archiving of craft skills in the industry today; and the creation of a body of artwork in response to this research. The resultant ‘narrative’ sheds light upon Britain’s contemporary “post-industrial” experience as well as its industrial past.

Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1995, Brownsword’s work has gained both national and international acclaim, and is positioned at the forefront of experimental ceramic practice in Great Britain. It resides in eminent public and private collections worldwide, such as the Victoria & Albert Museum and Crafts Council, London and Fu Le International Ceramic Art Museum, China. He continues to engage in prestigious research residencies that include the European Ceramic Work Centre, Holland; International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark; and recently Fu Le International Ceramic Art Museum in Shaanxi, China.

For nearly a decade, Neil Brownsword’s work has been a sustained mediation on the decline of British ceramic manufacture in his home town of Stoke-on-Trent - a first hand knowledge that has accrued since he was apprenticed at the age of 16, at the Josiah Wedgwood factory. Assuming the role of artist/archaeologist, Brownsword unearths/ salvages by-products from the histories ceramic production and regenerates these symbolically charged vestiges of labour into poetic abstract amalgams. Through its metaphoric exploration of absence, fragmentation and the discarded, his work signifies the inevitable effects of global capitalism which continue to disrupt indigenous skills and a heritage economy rooted in North Staffordshire for nearly three centuries.
In 2009 he won the One Off category at the British Ceramic Biennial, and continues to exhibit both nationally and internationally. www.galeriebesson.co.uk/brownsword

Karen Harsbo is an artist and head of the Laboratory for Ceramics at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. The Laboratory for Ceramics teaches and researches the use of ceramics in fine art. Karen Harsbo graduated from the Danish Designschool in Copenhagen. She has a wide experience in ceramic materials, she works and teaches many directions within ceramics. She has in her teaching practice emphasised an artistic approach to ceramics, historically and technically, and has run workshops for example 'The White Gold' with the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain, commission projects for murals at the Tommerup Teglvaerk, and research photo transfer for ceramics. In her own practice she exhibits and works with commission projects.

For this exhibition, her pieces have appeared from experiments with mixing and melting known ceramic materials such as glaze, plaster, porcelain. “What happen might be an accident or even a fault, but it opens up to a world of possibilities and creative potential, which could not be pre-perceived.”
Karen Harsbo: I was struck by something I heard, which I felt applied well to what I have been working on: "How knowledge travels from one material to another." Here my idea of knowledge is: knowledge and abilities embedded in the material; knowledge of how to handle and work the material; knowledge of history and culture of the material. www.kunstakademiet.dk/labs/keramik/

Sandra Davolio - Exhibition March 2010

Doni Votivi

Sandra Davolio Italia/DK

Exhibition 4 - 31 March 2010

This Exhibition of Sandra Davolio's new pieces leads us to an Italian churchyard showing models and finished vase forms in porcelain.

Doni Votivi by Sandra Davolio born in Italy, living in Denmark since 1974

The intention to make everybody equal after death has, in a modern and rational way created the most desolate churchyard in my childhood town, Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy.
A feeling of sadness during my last visit inspired me to create a useful, beautiful alternative to the dried out or plastic flowers, but my thoughts have moved on to include the whole churchyard.

Votive gifts - Doni Votivi
The ivory coloured porcelain is my favourite material. Beautiful and poetic as it is natural white.
The complexity of the forms are symbols of the bonds we have with each other. They are meant for one recipient and each element of the form symbolises a thought, a prayer that can be passed on - from me as a creator and from the person who gives it.
While I form the 'gifts', I relate to the process of the religious rituals where the liturgy creates a spiritual mood.

The churchyard gets new life in the form of ceramic decoration on the walls, the paths and in niches by the graves, and a green oasis where visitors can find peace and privacy during their visit, a garden with a fountain and benches in the shade of blossoming trees.

FULBY Exhibition February 2010

Ann Linnemann studio gallery 4 - 27 february 2010

Fulby

Hans & Birgitte Börjeson
www.fulby.com/

The Gallery exhibits new work by Hans & Birgitte Börjeson, fresh and 'warm' from their first firing of the year.
Large and small pitchers, cups, schnapps-cups, mini pâté-bowls, large jars..

Hans & Birgitte Börjeson have their studio in the village of Fulby, where they closely work together. The collaboration and naming of the work after the studio location has roots in pottery tradition.
They met in Cornwall, one of Englands rich ceramic centres.

Fulby-ceramics are primarily known for salt-glazed stoneware. They won a prize at the first World Ceramic Biennial in Korea, 2001. They exhibit and attend ceramic art fairs all over Europe.

Hans & Birgitte Börjeson explain, that after 47 years with ceramics and numerous travels there is always something new and exciting to develop. Every salt firing gives unpredictable results, that endlessly leads to new thoughts and roads to follow.

Gallery photo: Ann Linnemann

/Object photos: Ole Akhøj DK

2D-3D Exhibition January 2010

Porcelain & photography in Ann Linnemann studio gallery



2D to 3D
Ole Akhøj & Ane-Katrine von Bülow
Exhibition 7 – 30 january 2010

A unique collaboration between the photographer Akhøj and ceramic artist Ane-Katrine von Bülow DK shows the delicate black/white photography combined with the round porcelain form.

The porcelain bowls appear in the meeting between new and old technology and traditional crafts. The images come from the digital photographs, that are computer manipulated, to silk screen print in ceramic colour... The bowls are wood/soda or electric kiln fired.
At the exhibition, an installation visualize the movement from the 2D to the 3D. Sketches of photographes and struktures are projected on to a large porcelain bowl.

Ane - Katrine von Bülow ceramic artist www.anekatrinevonbulow.dk/
Ole Akhøj photographer www.oleakhoej.dk/

Christmas Exhibitions December 2009

THINGs FOR the cake party..
Exhibition of the coffee/tea set - Landscape Blue
Coffee/tea set with trees and gardens .. new cup, plates and tray
Link Link
Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Movement
The Waterhall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 17 Oct 2009 — 4 Jan 2010
LINKS
www.makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com
Website: Paul Scott

THINGs FOR unique gifts with soul, spirit and history
Exhibition 1 - 22 December 2009

THINGs FOR tablesetting.. breakfast - lunch - cake party - Christmas dinner

The Gallery shows ideas for christmas gifts, original, beautiful things for the house and table setting.
We show a new exhibition every week, Advent of december - from unique tableware to vases and fancyful figures.