EXHIBITION CALENDAR 2019

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The program may be subject to change. Photos of previous works.


10 JANUAR – 16 FEBRUAR
DRAWINGS OF CLAY
Louise Sidelmann & Jane Holmberg
Jane Holmberg works with nuances in the thrown form, the shading or sharply defined abstract transitions in natural clay colours.

Louise Sidelmann explores the character and shapes of the lines. A collision of details, which forms a poetic composition, a sequence of intervals, colour and form.

21 FEBRUARY – 23 MARCH
LYKKE/HAPPY with an EDGE
Sten LYKKE Madsen
Sten Lykke Madsen is known for his fabulous, humorous characters elusively leading the viewer into a world of hybrid between animals and humans.
Modelled quirky characters, favourites in stoneware and porcelain from the wood-fired kiln.
Infinite imagination, joy of form and line offer the viewer new discoveries.

28 MARCH – 4 MAY
SEEING THROUGH
Malene Müllertz
Cut cylindrical shapes, vessels and other pieces modelled in stoneware with delicate decoration.
The forms are inventively added new elements, some providing sound and others multiple planes.
Net constructions, leafs, Jugend-nets, fragmentation are the themes for the new ceramic pieces by the acclaimed Danish crafts-woman.

9 MAY – 8 JUNE
BAD BOYS and other stories
Peder Rasmussen
He is a debater and sometimes a provocateur, - but above all one who can his craft and plays with it from all humorous angles of the world, - with a sharp tongue, a clear sight and an eye for rediscovering historical themes that he considers and engages in his pieces.

13 JUNI – 24 AUGUST
ALL GREAT TIMES .. JARS
Lotte Westphael DK, Gunilla Maria Åkesson SE og Samuel Johnson USA
Three artists in dialogue on marvelous timeless jars created out of different education, country, living condition, approaches..
- Rethinking the form, expression and texture of traditional vessels.

Lotte Westphael DK
- Graphic variations in coloured porcelain.



Gunilla Maria Åkesson SE
- Cylinders with effectual glazes.


Samuel Johnson USA
- Thrown vessels from the wood-fired kiln.

15 AUGUST - 7 SEPTEMBER
HUMAN MATTERS - Ann Linnemann DK
Human and material - body language and idiom, human relations and conditions, nature and culture are some of the key words for this exhibition of new and previous pieces that revolve around humanity in more or less abstract ways. Nature plays in, engaging with form, image and historical references.


12 SEPTEMBER – 19 OCTOBER
NATURE CULTURE OBJECT
Turi Heisselberg Pedersen og Marianne Krumbach DK
Turi Heisselberg's organic vases have become sculptural geometric objects with references to the vase's archetype.
Marianne Krumbach describes herself as interpreter. It is not the nature or kitchens that interest her most, but the notion of them, and meanings we as humans attach to the things we surround ourselves with.


24 OCTOBER – 23 NOVEMBER
HAND-THROWN ANIMALS – CLAY & CONCRETE
Søren Thygesen DK
Method and material study from folk art's hand-thrown animals to sculptural works in clay and concrete.The combination of material knowledge, tools and technical ingenuity meet and merge into the artistic idea. The method is linked in the process with the nature of the material, and the idea of the work arises in the interaction.

28 NOVEMBER - 21 DECEMBER
HANDS ON THINGS – THINGS FOR THE TABLE
International
The handmade functional objects are loved for their utility value and peaceful sustainability.
This exhibition shows various combinations of unique things to the table and unusual table settings, which appeal to the imagination. Here focus is on the handmade useful originals that reach beyond the industrial and mass-produced product.

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FUNCTION MATTERS Nov-Dec 2018


FUNCTION MATTERS
Ursula Munch-Petersen & Ann Linnemann
Exhibition 29 November – 23 December 2018
OPEN IN DECEMBER Tuesday-Friday 11-18, Saturdays + Sunday 23 December 11-17.
Craft challenges industry - new colours and blue print.
Focus on crafts, personal utility items with traces of the hand.

The exhibition talks about two kinds of functional ware that in various ways refer to the industrial product, but carried out in the studio workshop, and largely the result of the hand's ability to create unique high quality functional pieces that can be loved by generations and stay through time.

Beautiful colours and simple forms by Ursula Munch-Petersen are combined with blue and white porcelain by Ann Linnemann and Paul Scott.

Ceramic designer exhibits crafts from her studio workshop.
Ursula Munch-Petersen is acknowledged for her eminently designed functional ware for everyday use.
From beautiful crafts, her pieces have become good industrial design products, often having the same feelings as in good crafts. Over the years, she has created numerous works, experiments and prototypes for design for industry and studio production, unique pieces and commissions.
This exhibition features new pieces from her own studio.

There is an honest connection between the hand's work and common sense.
Many know Ursula-dinnerwares, dishes, bowls, cups and jugs of strong colours and distinctive shapes. But few have as Ursula understood to combine new design with good craftsmanship, for everyday use.

Colours, shapes, objects and landscapes become one with the peace that descends on rural life. Things arouse from the history of material and reason mixed with an investigative joy of creation.

NEW COLOURS - DINNER SETS, PLATES AND BOWLS IN VARIOUS SIZES
Ursula Munch-Petersen:
"I have worked with clay and ceramics for over 60 years. My work has been about equally divided between modelled objects and commission projects, - and then functional things produced in my own studio or designed for industrial production.
One has not taken up more or been more important than the other. When switching between one and the other, it is experienced anew every time a new task occurs.
Many old and newer things and moulds, I have set aside over the years. When I get a new inquiry, like a small mortar I made in the sixties on Bing & Grondahl, I take the form into the workshop and set out to redo it again. The bowls, plates and dishes for this exhibition are a mix of older designs and new colours, most of which are done in the summer of 2018."

Ursula Munch-Petersen was born in 1937 on the Danish island of Bornholm. Following her studio experience on The Hjort Factory in Rønne and education at the Arts&Crafts School (now: Royal Danish Academy Design school) 1956-60, she was employed at Artist Studios of the porcelain factory Bing & Grondahl 1961-68, and designer for The Royal Copenhagen and Kaehler. She has received numerous grants and awards including The Danish Arts Foundation Lifelong Award, Denmark's National Banks Foundation's Honorary Award, Bindesbøll Medal, Ole Haslund's Artist Award, Arts&Crafts Council. Following an active life as a craftsman and designer with travelling, teaching and exhibitions in Denmark and abroad among others Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, the USA, Mexico and China, she has her studio and home in Copenhagen and at the island of Møn. She designed among others faïence tableware 'Ursula' Royal Copenhagen in 1992, pieces in The Larch Set 1994 - and recent public commission is 'Timetable' for the Ancient Roman Road, Jutland 2010.

ANN LINNEMANN
Cobalt blue print on a porcelain set in a Danish-English collaboration.
The Landscape Blue set consists of coffee / tea cups, plates, dishes, trays and porcelain tea-lights, designed and hand-thrown by Ann Linnemann and then applied cobalt blue silk screen developed by Paul Scott from motifs previously used in industrial production.

For the exhibition are developed new pieces and renewed use of the blue prints.

Landscape Blue reflects a multifaceted dialogue between industry and crafts, everyday and the fine coffee-set with gold edging, childhood memories, remembering - and the daily cup of warm drink.

The history of porcelain, social and cultural politics and 'nature-human' are ongoing themes that unfold for the close viewer.
The decorative motifs are made in small series of unique landscape gardens, 'summer and winter trees' from the Royal Garden, ornament-borders inspired from the East or Swedish and English tableware.
"We are interested in the way that handmade and industrial can be united by creating objects of beauty for use; but even though we work with hand-thrown products and prints we are not interested in our own 'mass production'. In contrary, the nature of the project creates a distance from impersonal indifferent consumption, playing with industry techniques to wake up social awareness. Only a limited number of each print motif is printed and this creates a limitation on how many of the same kind are made. Furthermore, the hand-throwing creates a unique base which means that no two objects are identical."

COLLABORATION - Landscape Blue and Body Blue.
The pieces are the result of a long-standing collaboration that began in 2004 when Paul Scott and Ann Linnemann collaborated on sculptural pieces for a joint exhibition Body Blue in Gallery Nørby, Copenhagen. The graphic motifs for the first cups are based on summer and winter trees in The Kings Garden in Copenhagen. The 'Summer Tree' motif was also made on transparent tea-lights and 'shots'. A small number was exhibited and sold from the Scottish Gallery in Edinburgh during 2008; and it was then available from Ann Linnemann Gallery in Copenhagen and Paul Scott in Cumbria, UK. Since then, the project has been exhibited several places, including the touring exhibition, Taking Time: Crafts and the Slow Movement - www.makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com

New motifs, edges and borders are derived from different industrial prints, and new items are designed for the set, plates, dishes, serving trays, jugs.
All functional things are designed, hand-thrown, glazed and fired by Ann Linnemann in her studio in Copenhagen, Denmark. Paul develops the graphic motifs and silk-screen prints the ceramic decals in his workshop in Blencogo, Cumbria, England. Half of a particular pattern or graphic is available from Paul and half from Ann. The finished articles that undergo a total of four different firings, are created both in Copenhagen and Blencogo - as each artist shares and attaches the printed decals to the porcelain before adding fine rims of gold and platinum-lustre on selected pieces.
All pieces are signed and stamped with signature and logo.
The project was awarded by the Danish National Arts Foundation in 2009.

Ann Linnemann See more.. LINK
Paul Scott Cumbrian Blue(s) www.cumbrianblues.com

Grateful thanks to The Danish Art Foundation for project funding in 2018.