Ann Linnemann

ILLUSION - Exhibition February 2012

2012-01-17T10:11:00.000-08:00

ILLUSION
Ceramic work by Ann Linnemann
Exhibition 3 - 25 February 2012

About people in time, landscapes, spaces and views with an Italian inspiration..

CLICK on IMAGES of exhibition, pieces, details and inspiration.
(Own photos)

Ann Linnemann The idea of the exhibition started with my travels in Italy, where 'Trompe l'oeil' caught my eyes. The painted illusions of windows, relief and frames, where the real ones 'are missing' on the façades.
Wikipedia: Trompe-l'oeil
This made my imagination wander with different ideas of space and form, thinking of concepts of reality and truth in relation to illusion.

Is reality equal? Can you imagine mine? Is my illusion your reality? What is true? Doors and windows lead through the wall to the other side regardless of culture, philosophy or religion. The World is measured in horizontal and vertical lines. We can construct a perspective, but what is illusion?
I chose to work with the nearby and physical truth, my view from a couple of blind windows in the exhibition space.

I have imagined the view, but thought of different times and visions, and kept the idea of a physical space in my perspective drawing made in ceramic pastels with glaze-painted parts on large tiles and figure-jars in porcelain.

The picturesque ruins of Pompei and the casts of the people have for a long time been on my mind.
It is a pocket of time, the moment that is kept for ever.

I have combined the painted 'illusions', landscapes and windows in porcelain with the rough casts of the window panels and figures in a grey stoneware.

Clay is a ductile soft material when it is wet as well as when the firing heat influences the melting process and freezes the moment the clay cools again.

Ann Linnemann has exhibited and worked in Denmark and internationally. She makes ceramic design and sculpture. Since 2008 her gallery has exhibited contemporary international and Danish ceramic art.
LINK: Ann Linnemann
Special thanks to the Danish National Foundation for a travel grant to Italy in 2011.
'Trompe l'oeil'
My photos from Italy:
Camogli - Rome - Torin

'Trompe l'oeil'
My photos from Istanbul

LINKS - Exhibition January 2012

2012-01-17T10:08:00.000-08:00

LINKS
Ann Linnemann
Exhibition 3 - 28 January 2012

Ann Linnemann exhibits wood-fired and glaze-painted sculptural objects and jars - Body wood, Body Blue and Body landscape...
A retrospective selection of her ceramic pieces, that is about her path towards the next exhibition in the gallery: ILLUSION - people, landscapes, spaces and views inspired by 'Trompe l'oeil' and Pompeii, Italy.
LINK: Ann Linnemann

EXHIBITION CALENDAR 2012

2012-01-17T08:05:00.000-08:00

EXHIBITIONS 2012 subject to change
LINK - GALLERY SHOP pieces in the gallery

5 - 28 JANUARY LINKS Ann Linnemann DK
Ann Linnemann exhibits a selection of her ceramic pieces, that is about her path towards the next exhibition in the gallery: ILLUSION.

3 - 25 FEBRUARY ILLUSION Ann Linnemann DK

2 - 24 MARCH HELIOTROPES Mikael Jackson and Jens-Rune Gissel DK

30 MARCH - 28 APRIL GRAVITATION Esben Klemann DK

3 - 26 MAY GRAPHIC TALES Lisbeth Holst-Jensen DK

31 MAY - 30 JUNE FRAGILE
Bodil Manz, Jane Reumert, Malene Müllertz and Heidi Bach Hentze DK

5 - 28 JULY STATE Kristine Tillge Lund DK

FALL PROGRAM will be updated soon...

2 - 31 AUGUST THEME

6 - 29 SEPTEMBER THEME Ole Jensen and Louise Birch DK
www.louisebirch.com - www.olejensendesign.com/

4 - 27 OCTOBER THEME Bente Hansen DK

1- 30 NOVEMBER THEMATIC Paul Scott UK - guest artists

1 - 23 DECEMBER CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION

PERMANENT EXHIBITION / GALLERY SHOP - Akio Takamori USA - Ane-Katrine von Bulow - Ann Linnemann - Bente Skjøttgaard - Charlotte Thorup - Christina Schou Christensen - Hans Vangsø - Heidi Bach Henze - Karen Bennicke - Karen Harsbo - Kirsten Coelho AU - Kurt Weiser USA - Lis Ehrenreich - Lone Skov Madsen - Malene Müllertz - Margaret O'Rorke - Marianne Krumbach - Marianne Nielsen - Mikael Jackson - Morten Løbner - Neil Brownsword - Paul Scott UK - Prue Venables AU - Steen Ipsen/Anne Tophøj - Sten Lykke Madsen - Stephen Bowers AU - Turi Heisselberg Pedersen - Glass: Iben Kielberg ...

GALLERY SHOP - Permanent exhibition

2012-01-13T13:40:00.000-08:00

Please see the pieces
in GALLERY SHOP
(subject to change)

CLICK on photo - LARGE

Ann Linnemann DK

Paul Scott UK - Ann Linnemann DK

Paul Scott UK

Akio Takamori USA/Japan

Ane-Katrine von Bülow DK

Bente Skjøttgaard DK

Charlotte Thorup DK

Elisa Helland-Hansen N

Extrudox A/S - Anne Tophøj - Steen Ipsen DK

Hans Vangsø DK

Iben Kielberg DK - Glas

Jakob Skov Hansen DK

Karen Bennicke DK

Karen Harsbo DK

Kirsten Christensen DK

Kirsten Coelho AU

Kurt Weiser USA

Lis Ehrenreich DK

Malene Müllertz DK

Margaret O'Rorke UK

Lone Skov Madsen DK

Marianne Krumbach DK

Marianne Nielsen DK

Mikael Jackson DK

Morten Løbner DK

Neil Brownsword UK

Prue Venables AU

Sandra Davolio DK

Sten Lykke Madsen DK

Stephen Bowers AU

Turi Heisselberg Pedersen DK

VASES - LANDSCAPE SERIES - A Linnemann DK

Still in love - exhibition November 2011

2011-10-31T19:33:00.000-07:00

Still in love

Sten Lykke Madsen DK
Akio Takamori USA/Japan 3 November - 3 December 2011

Life appetite, narrative joy and humour in new ceramic pieces by Akio Takamori and Sten Lykke Madsen.
Akio Takamori and Sten Lykke Madsen always seem to work with love of humanity in mind.
This Summer the two friendly souls have worked together at a studio residency in Denmark, where they have been challenged by making pieces about love and eroticism.
The exhibition presents a joyful and reflecting enthusiasm for erotic love. It shows their undying appetite for life and love of clay, art and people.

Throughout time, history shows several examples of erotic art – from fertility goddesses and erotic statuettes to unlimited comments in contemporary art. Erotic art has been shown in secret museums and behind the shop counter, and at the same time appears as an ever existing and important part of the artistic expressions – both to happiness and indignation for the curious viewer.

Sten Lykke Madsen is recognized for his fabulous, humoristic figures, that in funny ways bring the viewer into a different world of hybrids between animal and human.
The theme of eroticism and love is always present in Sten Lykke's motives. He grabs with steady fantasy and humour the still new forms and lines to give out new experiences.
At this exhibition the bedroom chest of drawers shines of its own erotic adventures, while other forms play with each other and the viewers sense of imagination.

Akio Takamori is famous for his figurative works and masterly drawing on ceramic form.
At this exhibition he lustfully takes a starting point in race, gender and togetherness. He often uses the vase, the container as a basic form on which the figure drawing freely moves outside and inside the form in a sensitive brush stroke.
In those pieces, Akio tells about eroticism and love in ways that carry the mind into secret places and hidden corners, revealed around and inside the forms. He seems to talk about several aspects of erotic life and not be stopped by raised fingers and 'untimely' moralistic concerns.

Coupling - Exhibition October 2011

2011-10-17T09:46:00.000-07:00

COUPLING
Pipaluk Lake & Jesper Palm DK
Exhibition 6 - 29 October 2011

Exhibition of glass by Pipaluk Lake and photography by Jesper Palm.
For years the two artists have – individually and without direct purpose – collected discarted glass objects of various kinds.
This glass collection has formed the common starting point for this exhibition.

In this project the artists have chosen to challenge their usual working methods.

Pipaluk Lake has 'deformed' and transformed the collected glass objects. They are cut and assembled into new combinations with other glass parts and prefabricated found objects of wood and metal.
This work method differs from her usual slumping technique, where primary glass sheets are heated in a kiln.

Jesper Palm chooses in this project an opposite order of idea development. Usually he starts working from an idea or a narrative in a dreamlike condition, which is staged in the final photograph or painting.
Here are the given glass objects used as elements in a tableau, where the light plays an important role in the final still-photograph.

LINK: Pipaluk Lake - Jesper Palm

Extrudox A/S - Exhibition September 2011

2011-09-09T06:14:00.000-07:00

EXTRUDOX A/S
Anne Tophøj & Steen Ipsen
Exhibition 1 September - 1 October 2011

EXTRUDOX A/S squeezes the lemon!

Steen Ipsen og Anne Tophøj:
“EXTRUDOX A/S is a collaboration, where we research and challenge the ceramic technique, extruding.
We have used this summer project as a play ground and a free space away from our usual methods and projects, to discover and take in new ceramic terrain, challenge each other and try out our boundaries.

None of us have worked with extruding before; but it is a technique in which we both see a potential in relationship to our own individual work.
Extruding, as Extrudox A/S has used it, is a here-and-now technique, where the objects are finished in the same tempo as they come out of the extruder.
It is man and machine against and with each other; and it is a spontaneous, manual, and quick process, where the technique, clay and the moment of making become easily readable in the finished pieces.

Extrudox A/S has worked with an open and playful approach, where extruding is the primary turning point, and the result has become functional, objects and figures.“

Steen Ipsen and Anne Tophøj have known each other since they started at the Design school in Copenhagen (Skolen for Brugskunst) in 1984, and have both been involved in ceramic education in Denmark teaching at the Denmark Design School in Copenhagen and Kolding. They have individual ceramic careers and exhibit nationally and internationally, in recent years for example in Paris, Milan, New York, Brussels, Hamburg, Shanghai….
- www.steen-ipsen.dk - www.atop.dk

Thanks to:
Danish National Studios of Art – for use of metal studio
SuperFormLab, Denmarks Design School - for use of the extruder
our assistant Theis Lorentzen, student at Denmark Design School - Bornholm

Kirsten Christensen - Exhibition August 2011

2011-08-10T13:39:00.000-07:00

Kirsten Christensen
Exhibition 4 – 27 August 2011
See the new work by an unusual Danish artist, who likes to tell truth and grabs life from the inside...
"As an artist you have to get into a space, that you don't know what it looks like. You have to find courage to jump. You live your life in a minefield. The condition for creation is using this courage to describe something not yet seen..."

Kirsten Christensen:
"About creation crisis and the sudden conquering of it...
The paradox feeling of real freedom – made the jump back to the cage full of lust; but this time when freedom was real, it was worth all of it.
The studio changed from a burden to fulfil all conditions for creation.

Exhibition of large Italian oil-pastel drawings with ceramic object applied and framed. Small flat houses with photos of the studio, women and animals, and finally a sitting skeleton. Death at last for all of us – important is a life before death."
http://www.kirstenchristensen.dk/
Kirsten Christensen has made large-scale commission works for the Hjortespring Library (1982), the Aalborg Train Station (1988) and the Køge Badeland (1992).
In 1978 she became a member of the Danish art association 'Kammeraterne', 1986 'Den Frie Udstilling'. In 1991 she received the Danish National Arts Foundation lifelong award.

Wild & Vigorous - Exhibition July 2011

2011-06-09T13:48:00.000-07:00

Wild & vigorous
Marianne Nielsen & Marianne Krumbach DK
Exhibition June 30 - July 30 2011

In July, the gallery shows a 'wild and vigorous' Summer exhibition of new work by the emerging Danish artists Marianne Nielsen and Marianne Krumbach.

Marianne Krumbach and Marianne Nielsen are studio mates in a constant dialogue. In spite of differences in their clay practice, they have a thematic connection – a circling around cultural objects and a 'cultivation of nature' as a starting point of their figures, forms and decoration.
LINK - Marianne Nielsen - Marianne Krumbach

Marianne Nielsen
I have modelled leaves, placed on the wall in a grid they function as a kind of 'species board' – a catalogue of pattern and form/design possibilities. This way the leaf is used more or less figurative between classic nature representation and pure form, - between plate and image. (Artist photo of sketches)
The transition from nature object to our thing-ly world interests me, when form becomes shaping and colour becomes decoration. In this project it has been interesting for me to see, how one subject can spread out and hold many different meanings.

Marianne Krumbach
I have set a scene in ceramics. A rabbit looks at a set table. A large plate. A glass of wine, Knife, fork and spoon. All in a size that immediately points above you and me. In the middle of the table is a lit candle. At the tabletop the rabbits. Observing. Waiting.
A story. A tale that is open for the viewer to enter.

They both graduated from the Danish Design School – Kolding, and for the last three years they have shared a studio in Copenhagen.

Weight - Exhibition June 2011

2011-06-09T12:55:00.000-07:00

Weight
Elisa Helland-Hansen - Norway
- www.elisa-hh.no
Exhibition 2 - 25 June 2011

At this exhibition Elisa Helland-Hansen invites the visitors to lift up the cups – see, touch, close their eyes and sense weight and gravity.

Elisa Helland-Hansen - VEKT:
“In my kitchen live 44 different cups and beakers. They are not randomly chosen. And neither their weight, size, volume, form, surface and expression are random.

Through many years of use, I have noticed how the weight of a cup has its own value and gets importance in the sensuous experience of drinking. An oppressive day, the tea drunk from a heavy beaker may give peace in mind. Coffee in a feather light cup may comfort a fragile condition. Or I can hold a cup, that really irritates... wrong weight for the need of the moment.

This interest in the weight of the cup has resulted in a research of the limits of the cup at a given mass. What possibilities lie in a lump of clay at 222 grams? How many varied expressions can I get from the same weight?

My starting point became a series of 9 beakers with identical profile and size, but with a rise of weight from 111 grams to 999 grams.
Through the evaluation of this row of cups grew new series, where the relationship between weight volume and apportion of mass got a special attention. Further on my choice of glaze, colour and pattern became influenced by the character of the specific cup.”

Branch Stump - Exhibition May 2011

2011-05-12T05:57:00.000-07:00

Branch Stump
Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl DK
Exhibition 5 - 28 May 2011

What can a branch stump talk about? - Why make it in ceramics? - What wondering does it start? - And when is it even a branch stump.

Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl: “The turning point of this exhibition is the branch stump. Not the actual branch, but the stump.
It is about the section, the part – which in itself holds the whole form of the tree, that it once came from. The physical presence of the tree is – in competition with the cat or dog – probably one of the visual forms, that we are first of all acquainted with in our life. An archetype. With time the root-trunk-crown-iconography change radically for most people; and for some the tree merely stays a tree. A tree is a tree – a branch is a branch. That’s it.

The direct impression of the anonymous branch stump, that the cast form in clay gives, is here set in a dialogue with various modelled variations of it. Both in the pure meeting of the form and with the surface patterns set in play.

The materials, that the objects are made from, place them solidly in a non-nature-sphere. Like the ceramic figures they depend upon, that the tactility, colour and applied ornamental actualities transform the easily recognisable into an open world of imagination.”
Photo of pieces: Ole Akhøj - Photo of exhibition: Ann Linnemann

In recent years, Martin Bodilsen Kaldahls exhibition activities have included the exhibitions at The Danish Museum of Art Craft and Design in Copenhagen: 'The digital clay', 2008 and "END" (English/Norwegian/Danish exhibition group) in 2007.

In the Woods - Exhibition April 2011

2011-04-12T09:14:00.000-07:00

”In the Woods...”

New maiolica-pieces by the ceramic artist Peder Rasmussen

Exhibition March 31 – April 30 2011

Peder Rasmussen: "In the woods, we meet all those, who try to be in contact with the birds and maybe learn about singing or flying. We see the many different kinds of trees and also run into people, who are just absorbed in themselves and enjoy life in their shadow.

There are naturally also those, who are out on a frisky hike, and not in the least those, who might overdo it and try to become a kind of nature themselves."

Website LINK - Peder Rasmussen

The exhibition consists of various series of figures and plates, which were made during the winter 2010-11, when Peder Rasmussen experimented with the old Italian maiolica-technique, which he first encountered in 1970, when for a period of time he lived in Faenza, the home-town of faience.

Photoes of the individual pieces: Peder Rasmussen - Photoes of the exhibition: Ann Linnemann

See Video - part 1 - YOUTUBE

See Video - part 2 - YOUTUBE

In Play - Exhibition March 2011

2011-03-13T14:55:00.000-07:00

In Play

Lis Ehrenreich & Mikael Jackson

Exhibition 3 - 26 March 2011

Two generations of ceramic artists are set 'in play' and create dialogue.

The ceramic works by Lis Ehrenreich & Mikael Jackson DK are set 'in play' to create a new dialogue.

This exhibition holds ornamental variations from the installation 'Flying Carpet', where the shadow creates an oriental carpet, to vessels containing ornaments of a Middle Eastern cultural heritage.

The viewer is given the possibility to investigate this cultural meeting between two generations of Danish artists, who are both inspired by their love for ornamental images. Lis Ehrenreich connects the structural relief-patterns with layers of glaze. In Mikael's installations the two-dimensional ornaments are transformed to three-dimensional form.

Mikael Jackson “I always sculpture my work with geometry as my starting point. For this exhibition I have chosen to let myself be inspired by traditional Islamic patterns. The objects have developed from relatively simple three-dimensional elements, which are repeated. The parts are put together in various ways ending up as unique objects.

The abstract notions, I research, contrast fragility towards strength, the industrial towards the handmade, the visually tight opposed to loose expression, and order to chaos.” Mikael graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, 2008. He has a studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lis Ehrenreich “The Classical form – presently the Albarello – is my starting point. The timelessness of the form is emphasized by the structural, rustic expressions of the glaze applied to ornamental imprints in the wet clay. I find inspiration for the patterns in my surroundings: walls, books... everywhere.”

Lis Ehrenreich is educated at the Jutland Art Academy, Aarhus, DK, 1976-81. She has a studio in Aarhus, Jutland, DK.

Light & Porcelain - Exhibition February 2011

2011-02-03T06:58:00.000-08:00

Light & Porcelain
Margaret O'Rorke UK
Exhibition 27 January – 26 February 2011

Margaret O'Rorke from England exhibits light objects in transparent porcelain.

Margaret O'Rorke www.castlight.co.uk
”The translucency of fine high-fired porcelain captures my imagination and leads me to create thrown sculptural forms that give light. Ideas stem from the nature of the material, forms that can grow from the potter's wheel, the process of firing and a sense of adventure with light and space.

For the past 30 years I have worked as a ceramic artist in my studio. Recently I have furthermore created translucent porcelain lighting designs for industrial manufacture. Working closely with porcelain as a studio potter has given me an intimate understanding of the material and enabled me to develop an exciting approach to the concept of designing cast translucent porcelain forms that will be manufactured.”

Margaret O'Rorke was awarded a research and development grant for an industrial project at the Wade's porcelain factory in Stoke-on-Trent in 1999. Louis Poulsen Lighting A/S Copenhagen unveiled in 2002 an interesting exhibition of works by Margaret O'Rorke. In 2006 she did a collaborative commission project at the Danish Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory, a light installation for the Royal Copenhagen showroom at Amagertorv, Copenhagen.
She has made studio artist visits, workshops and industrial projects to Jingdezhen in China from 2007-2009.
In 2008 a collaboration with the Jeweler Marlene McKibbin resulted in a new collection of thrown porcelain Garment Sculptures. In 2009 she collaborated with the Finnish Art Weaver Sirkka Paikkari to create the Woven Light and Porcelain installation exhibited at Contemporary Applied Arts in London UK.

Margaret has written two books about light and porcelain:
“Clay, Light and Water' by Margaret O’Rorke, A & C Black Ltd February 2010 - AMAZON.
'Light and Porcelain' about Margaret’s pieces – design/print in China, 2010.
USA Publishers interviewed Margaret in April 2010 - see: YOUTUBE

PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES
"The majority of my studio work is hand-thrown porcelain. When the clay is sufficiently firm, I cut and reform it. Frequently, pieces are joined when leather hard. Some hand-built work has included rolled reeds. For free-standing pieces, I may throw stoneware bases which incorporates the light fitting.
Following my industrial research projects and experiments I have made plaster-moulds from the thrown forms. Some cast forms are re-formed when leather-hard.
The pieces are fired in a gas kiln to 1300 C.
The high-fired porcelain is unglazed in order to preserve the definition and directness of the making process.
Within each piece, incorporating the lighting technology is an integral part of the creative process. Installations, including chandeliers, wall pieces and fountains, have all involved my developing complex engineering, both electrical and mechanical."

RECENT EXHIBITIONS 2007-11
2007 Victoria and Albert Museum, Flow Gallery “Collect”.
Galerie Besson “Classic and Contemporary Ceramics”.
Oxford Museum, Woodstock, “Potters of Portland”.
Flow Gallery. London. “Commissioning Exhibition”.
Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute. China “International Master's exhibition”
Wison Art Museum & Jingzhe Modern Art Museum. China "World Contemporary & Public Ceramic Art"
Contemporary Applied Arts London, Showcase.
“Porcelain Garment Sculptures”. Collaboration with Marlene McKibbin
2008 KOTONA III Fiskars Finland “Garment Sculptures”
Light Sculptures, Tulessa Syntynyt
International Exhibition, Makasini, Fiskars, Finland.
Galerie Besson 'Twenty Years, Twenty Pots'.
Jingdezhen International Ceramic exhibition and workshop. Sanbao. China.
2009 Work included in McKnight Residence Artist Exhibition May.
November – December. Northern Clay Center Solo Exhibition in Gallery A, Minneapolis USA.
2010 Solo Exhibition NCECA Translucent Porcelain and Light
Woven Light and Porcelain a Collaboration
(Sirkka Paikkari is part of the exhibition Made to Cherish at Contemporary Applied Arts London).
2011 Circus Satellite to CAA 58 Marylebone High St London

RECENT ARTIST RESIDENCES AND EVENTS 2007-10
2007 International Ceramic Research Center – Denmark, Collaborative Relationships Seminar
Royal Copenhagen Porcelain.
Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Art Institute China “International master's workshop.
The 2nd ICMEA Conference International Ceramic Magazine Editors Association
Fuping Pottery Art Village, Fuping, Shaanxi, China
Conference Theme Appreciation of Ceramic Art Presentation
Margaret O’Rorke Presentation Title:
Translucent Porcelain with light Studio Potter & Industrial Designer.
2008 Jingdezhen International Ceramic exhibition and workshop. Sanbao. China.
2009 Awarded Mc Knight Visiting Artist in Residence. January – March.

PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES
Porcelain: Caroline Whyman. Batsford.
Ceramic Technology for Potters and Sculptors: Yvonne Cuff. A & C Black 1996.
Porcelain: Jack Doherty Ceramic Handbook, A & C Black 2002.
Porcelain and Bone China: Sasha Wardell. Crowood 2004.
Naked Clay: Jane Perryman, A & C Black 2004.
Ceramics with Mixed Media: Joy Boswell, A & C Black.
Breaking the Mould: Black Dog Publications 2007.
Clay, Light and Water: by Margaret O’Rorke, A & C Black Ltd February 2010 - available on AMAZON.
USA Publishers of the book did an interview of Margaret in Philadelphia April 2010 - posted on YOUTUBE.
Light and Porcelain Booklet of Margaret’s work designed and printed in China.
Ceramic Technical May - October 2010
American Crafts June-July 2009

A Touch of ... Exhibition January 2011

2011-01-11T13:57:00.000-08:00

A touch of...
Exhibition 6 – 22 january 2011

Salt/soda - embers - flames - ashes
Charlotte Thorup exhibits together with Ann Linnemann, Sten Lykke Madsen, Ane-Katrine von Bulow and Hans Vangsø. They show their ceramic objects, which are especially marked by their firing in gas, oil or wood fired kiln: salt/soda - embers - flames - ashes.
LINK: Charlotte Thorup - Ane-Katrine von Bülow - Ann Linnemann - Sten Lykke Madsen - Hans Vangsø

Thoughts behind the pieces - Charlotte Thorup:
”I am fascinated by patterns and repetition, dimensions and connections, and I am inspired by both nature and the city. It may be a field with the rhythm of the wheat or a building, where my attention are caught by a contrast, a new dimension. This interest appears in my ceramic work.

I enjoy working in a harmonious and simple way. It has led me to a technique where I form thin sheets of clay connecting them in various ways.
Guided by my curiousity I allow module by module to lead me towards a new form where small unities appear as one large piece.

Presently I make several objects that belong to each other and hang on a wall. Again a united whole.. created by modules. The viewer is invited to look at the piece from different angles where new balances and connections appear.

I mainly work in porcelain, because I like the inherent doubleness of this material.. between strength and fragility.
In my choice of colour I let simplicity rule, where the pieces own light and shadow effects create the 'colour'.

Finally I choose salt-glazing my ceramics, which is an ancient tradition. At high temperature salt connects with the clay and creates the glaze. This way of working is in one way unpredictable, because a salt-kiln partly 'lives its own life', and often adds the process an independent character to the pieces.”

Exhibition calendar 2011

2011-01-11T12:49:00.000-08:00

2011 (subject to change)

6 - 22 JANUARY A touch of...
Charlotte Thorup exhibits together with Ann Linnemann, Sten Lykke Madsen, Ane-Katrine von Bulow and Hans Vangsø. They show their ceramic objects, which especially are marked by their firing in gas, oil or wood fired kilns: salt/soda - embers - flames - ashes.
LINK: Charlotte Thorup - Ane-Katrine von Bülow - Ann Linnemann - Sten Lykke Madsen - Hans Vangsø

27 JANUARY - 26 FEBRUARY Light & porcelain
Margaret O'Rorke from England exhibits unique light installations made in transparent porcelain. The translucency of fine high-fired porcelain captures her imagination and leads her to create thrown sculptural forms that give light. Ideas stem from the nature of the material, forms that can grow from the potter's wheel, the process of firing and a sense of adventure with light and space.
LINK: Margaret O'Rorke

3 - 26 MARCH In play Lis Ehrenreich & Mikael Jackson DK
The ceramic pieces by Lis Ehrenreich & Mikael Jackson DK are set 'in play' and create a new dialogue. This exhibition shows ornamental variations from the installation 'Flying Carpet', where the shadow creates an oriental carpet, to vessels containing motives of a Middle Eastern cultural heritage.

1 - 30 APRIL In the Woods - Peder Rasmussen DK
The exhibition consists of various series of figures and plates, which are made during the winter 2010-11, where Peder Rasmussen has experimented with the old Italian maiolica-technique, he first time discovered, when he in 1970 for a period of time lived in Faenza, the home-town of faïence.
LINK: Peder Rasmussen

5 - 28 MAJ Branch objects - Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl DK
What can a branch stump talk about? - Why make it in ceramics? - What wondering does it start? - And when is it even a branch stump.
LINK: Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl

1 - 25 JUNI Weight - Elisa Helland Hansen - Norway
At this exhibition Elisa Helland-Hansen invites the visitor to lift up the cups – see, touch, close the eyes and sense weight and gravity.
LINK: Elisa Helland Hansen

1 - 30 JULI Wild & vigorous - Marianne Nielsen & Marianne Krumbach DK
In July, the gallery shows a wild and vigorous Summer exhibition of new work by the emerging Danish artists Marianne Nielsen and Marianne Krumbach.
LINK: Marianne Nielsen - Marianne Krumbach

4 - 27 AUGUST Clay & drawing - Kirsten Christensen DK
Exhibition of large Italian oil-pastel drawings with ceramic object applied and framed. Small flat houses with photos of studio, women and animals, and at last a sitting skeleton. "Death at last for all of us – important is a life before death."
LINK: Kirsten Christensen

1 - 30 SEPTEMBER Extrudox A/S - Steen Ipsen & Anne Tophøj DK
“EXTRUDOX A/S is a collaboration, where we research and challenge the ceramic technique: extruding.
We have used this project as a play ground and a free space away from usual methods and projects, to discover and take in new ceramic land, challenge each other and try on own boundaries.
LINK: Steen Ipsen - Anne Tophøj

6 - 29 OCTOBER Coupling - Pipaluk Lake & Jesper Palm DK
Exhibition of glass by Pipaluk Lake and photography by Jesper Palm. For this project the artists have challenged their usual work methods. For years, each of them have collected scrap glass objects of various kinds. This collection is their starting point for the exhibition. Pipaluk Lake deforms and transforms the objects
Jesper Palm uses the given objects in still-life photo settings, where the light plays an important role.
LINK: Pipaluk Lake - Jesper Palm

3 NOV - 23 DEC STILL in love - Akio Takamori USA/J & Steen Lykke Madsen DK
LINK: Akio Takamori - Sten Lykke Madsen

1 - 23 DECEMBER Christmas exhibition - Gallery artists

Illustrious Wonderers - Exhibition Nov. 2010

2010-11-04T12:37:00.000-07:00

Illustrious Wonderers

Paul Scott UK, Kurt Weiser USA & Stephen Bowers AU
Exhibition October 30 - November 26 2010

Illustrations in porcelain from the Danish Stigsnæsværk to Arizona and Australia.
Humour, satire and story telling by three world-known International ceramic artists.

Paul Scott, Kurt Weiser and Stephen Bowers exhibit together for the first time
at this exhibition in Copenhagen. The viewer is guided wandering around the
world and into each of the exhibitors personal magic place of illustrious
porcelain.
The exhibition visualises the cultural differences between Europe, America and
Australia.
Here are pieces with an innocent elegance, that don't usually hold satire, social critique or political comments; but at a closer look the details open up for endless stories and meanings, and layer by layer reveal the artists knowledge and humour.

Paul Scott is an artist known for his research into ceramics and print. He creates individual pieces that are exacting and critical, blurring the boundaries between fine art and design.
His work involves the digital manipulation of established vocabularies of printed motif, pattern and image from industrial ceramic archives and engraved book illustration. Cloning and collaging these, sometimes with photographic elements, he creates contemporary artworks in ceramic and printed form.

Paul Scott lives in a rural area, Cumbria, North West England. However, he has gained international prominence for his ceramic work as well as his ceramic research, writing and curating activities. In 2005 he was awarded a Phd Bursary at MIRAD, Manchester Metropolitan University (www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk) for his project: 'Ceramics Landscape Memory and Confection'.
Paul Scott tells about his work for this exhibition: “Soda and salt glazed cups, bowls and plates, together with wood fired trees are the results of a series of wood firings in Denmark and Hungary.
The wood fired objects play on the methodology of production, the resultant artefact and the words and language used to describe them. They are also beautiful objects - the flash of flame or soda/salt glaze and the bleeding cobalt print - expressive graphic qualities imbued by fire and process, complemented by gold splash or painted line...”
www.cumbrianblues.com

Kurt Weiser is Internationally recognized as a contemporary ceramic artist and educator. Weiser is known for his technical virtuosity with porcelain forms and his use of china painting techniques in a distinct contemporary style. His subject matter illustrates lush, mysterious landscapes and distorted narratives set amidst colour-saturated flora and fauna that read as voyeuristic candid snapshots of the human condition.
This exhibition shows a salt-fired earthenware vase complimented by a series of blue and white cups, tall cylindrical vases and a 'teapot' painted in black and white. The illustrations challenge and surprise the viewer all the way around the forms with a continuous dreamlike narrative. www.contemporarycraft.org/The_Store/Kurt_Weiser.html

Stephen Bowers ceramic pieces may reflect ideas about recollection and persistence in the form of remnants and shards; and be about how sections of memory survive; and utilise borders, patterns, overlaps, edges and shadows. He regularly retrieves and re-positions images, representing ‘the familiar’, often sourcing ‘clichéd’ images (i.e. blue and white, willow pattern, wallpapers, natural history illustrations, etc.) within a personal contemporary context, often with a surreal, whimsical, humorous, sceptical or satirical subtext.
Stephen Bowers tells: My aim is to make people look - and to look again; encouraging viewers to observe, react, consider, discover and re-consider.
I make both production and exhibition work, using hand craft skills informed (but not driven) by ideas with origins in the theory and study of images, their historical recall and reproduction and perception, and giving reference to the contexts and crossovers of visual arts with traditions, trade, travel, politics, science and exploration.
Compositionally, juxtaposition is important and I work in a kind of ‘mash up’ way; perhaps tongue-in-cheek, but always selectively, deliberatively and with an element of homage in mind. My work presents fictive tableaux, sectional or shard-like conjunctions, forming mosaic-like narratives of observation, conjecture and inquiry, often with a surreal, whimsical, humorous, sceptical or satirical subtext.
The skull is one of a series of 'skulls' of Australian fictive, legendary historical figures or real identities and/or literary characters (i.e. the English equivalent might be Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves, Boswell's Johnson, Hereward the Wake, etc).
www.robingibson.net/artists/stephen-bowers

Cumulus - Exhibition October 2010

2010-10-05T15:07:00.000-07:00

Cumulus
Bente Skjøttgaard DK
Exhibition October 2 – 28 2010

Thematic exhibition of new ceramic work by Bente Skjøttgaard.
Bente Skjøttgaard's interest for the 'higher spheres' began two years ago, during her first visit to South Korea where she discovered the country's ceramic tradition. Soon after, her first clouds were born, sort of growths where interlaced columbine structures rise above very fine 'trunks'... (*quote of text for her exhibition “in the clouds” at Galerie Maria Lund, Paris. www.marialund.com Photo: Ole Akhøj

Bente Skjøttgaard tells: ”It is a play with forms and colour, variations of something as contradictory as making airy and light clouds in the heavy clay.
The pink colour is the colour that clouds get after the sun has set. A kind of reflection. The level lines appear as those of the horizon. I like when the wildly grown organic - that has no specific form and in reality could continue infinitely - are cut through by straight sharp lines."
www.skjoettgaard.dk

Bente Skjøttgaard participates in ”Traces”, as one of 12 artists selected by the Danish National Art Foundation for the project 'Hærvejen' at Vejen Art Museum www.kunst.dk/billedkunst/kunstidetoffrum/haervejen

About clouds...
Cumulus clouds are a type of cloud with noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges. Cumulus means "heap" or "pile" in Latin. They are often described as "puffy" or "cotton-like" in appearance. Cumulus clouds may appear alone, in lines, or in clusters.
Cumulus clouds are often precursors of other types of clouds, such as cumulonimbus, when influenced by weather factors such as instability, moisture, and temperature gradient.
Cumulus clouds are part of the larger family of cumuliform clouds, which include cumulus, cumulus congestus, and cumulonimbus clouds, among others.

The most intense cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds may be associated with severe weather phenomena such as hail, waterspouts and tornadoes.
Cumulus humilis clouds, appearing as small- or medium-sized puffy shapes in the sky, often occur in times of fair weather.
However, cumulus clouds can grow into cumulonimbus clouds which may produce heavy rain, lightning, severe and strong winds, hail, and even tornadoes.
Cumulus congestus clouds, which appear as towers, will often grow into cumulonimbus storm clouds.
(Text freely quoted from Wikipedia) www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulus
http://www.vildtvejrsklubben.dk/
www.dmi.dk/dmi/himlens_vejrudsigt_fraorientering.pdf

Diamonds are... Exhibition September 2010

2010-09-03T07:28:00.000-07:00

Diamonds are...
Karen Bennicke DK
Exhibition 2 – 30 september 2010

Thematic exhibition of new ceramic objects by Karen Bennicke, DK
Diamonds are.. pure luxuriation.
Metaphors for beauty, dream and fantasy.
Diamonds breed mystic and mythology - even crime and murder.
Diamonds build material for evergreens.
Diamonds also generate inspiration to other facet objects.
Sculptural variations of the classic brilliant-cut - 'Correct cut'.
Made in the simple materials as clay and glaze.

Karen Bennicke
"My works are spatial visions. Constructions – reminiscent of architecture – that constitute a kind of form-bearing membranes between the exterior and the interior. Light and subsequently shadow, of course, are the main agents in a process of intuitive, mathematical building up of sculptures – which are operating in the field between something distinct, with rather recognizable, functional references, and something undefined, that takes place between the harmonious and the almost chaotic. I try to eliminate the distance between the logical/concrete world of form, that we know from everyday life, and the illogical, unknown and absurd."

Karen Bennicke exhibits in Denmark and internationally. She works thematic with sculpture, wall objects and architectural commissions. She is a member of the Danish Fine Artists Association - BKF (Billedkunstnernes Forbund), the Danish Artist Society (Kunstnersamfundet) and International Academy of Ceramics – IAC. www.karenbennicke.dk

Setups - Exhibition August 2010

2010-08-17T03:23:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-10T12:54:00.000-07:00

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.” ...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.” ...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

2010-05-07T16:19:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-18T07:38:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-14T13:44:00.000-07:00

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

2010-02-09T10:50:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-08T07:32:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-08T07:09:00.000-08:00

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.

Taking Time - Craft and Slow movement

2009-11-19T13:31:00.001-08:00

The exhibition holds collaborative work by Paul Scott UK and Ann Linnemann DK

Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Movement

A collaboration between Craftspace and Helen Carnac to explore the identity of craft within the Slow Movement.

Venues for the touring exhibition:
The Waterhall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
17 October 2009 — 4 January 2010
Dovecot Studios (Innovative Craft) , Edinburgh
18 January — 22 March 2010
Harley Gallery, Worksop
2 April — 6 June 2010
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Northern Ireland
4 August — 25 September 2010
University of Hertfordshire Galleries, St Albans
13 October — 20 November 2010
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
12 February — 9 April 2011
Platform Gallery, Clitheroe
9 May — 20 June 2011

LINKS
www.makingaslowrevolution.wordpress.com
Website: Paul Scott
Ann Linnemann - Biography

CultureLandscape - Exhibition October 2009

2009-10-08T08:06:00.000-07:00

KulturLandskab – Culture Landscape
Ole Akhøj & Ann Linnemann
Ann Linnemann Gallery October 1 - November 21 2009

Photographer Ole Akhøj & ceramic artist Ann Linnemann show photographs and ‘image vases’ with references to Culture and Landscape.

For this exhibition Ole Akhøj & Ann Linnemann have worked with their personal perception of how humans meet the open space, the landscape.
Nature and the human-made are tied closely together in these new images of time described in shape and surface.

In each of their own media the exhibitors express how different cultures deliberately and unconsiously form different kinds of landscapes. This may be an arranged ‘planted’ landscape, a complex human made such as buildings, a sports arena, an industrial complex, a farmland... or decorative elements reflecting on historcal times melted together with the peculiarity of the land.

Ole Akhøj shows records of landscapes that in varied extents are marked by the human desire to subdue Nature.
The exhibited works are digital photos shown as ink-prints on paper. The motifs are from Kalmykia, Russia and Denmark. Ole Akhøj mainly works with design and architectural photography. His photographs are exhibited in the artists association, Riimfaxe. www.oleakhoej.dk

Ann Linnemann shows sculptured vase forms, hand-thrown in porcelain and painted with ash glazes and ceramic pastels. The sculptures contain elements of the human form, movement and body language reflecting a fascination with different cultures. This exhibition presents new experiments with image-vases inspired by Danish, Australian, Chinese and South American cultures and landscapes. Biography Sculptural form

Gallery shop - Artists

2009-09-27T09:01:00.000-07:00

Pieces in the Gallery shop
(subject to change)

Ann Linnemann DK

Paul Scott UK - Ann Linnemann DK

Paul Scott UK

Akio Takamori USA/Japan

Ane-Katrine von Bülow DK

Bente Skjøttgaard DK

Charlotte Thorup DK

Elisa Helland-Hansen N

Extrudox A/S - Anne Tophøj - Steen Ipsen DK

Hans Vangsø DK

Iben Kielberg DK - Glas

Jakob Skov Hansen DK

Karen Bennicke DK

Karen Harsbo DK

Kirsten Christensen DK

Kirsten Coelho AU

Kurt Weiser USA

Lis Ehrenreich DK

Malene Müllertz DK

Margaret O'Rorke UK

Lone Skov Madsen DK

Marianne Krumbach DK

Marianne Nielsen DK

Mikael Jackson DK

Morten Løbner DK

Neil Brownsword UK

Prue Venables AU

Sandra Davolio DK

Sten Lykke Madsen DK

Stephen Bowers AU

Turi Heisselberg Pedersen DK

VASER - Ann Linnemann DK

SeptemberRum - Exhibition 2009

2009-08-26T07:42:00.000-07:00

SeptemberRUM
Sia Mai, Annemette Kissow, Jeanette List Amstrup og Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt show 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 - August 2009

2009-08-11T15:44:00.000-07:00

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

Photos:
Ole Akhøj

Images of the pieces by the artist:

Summer Exhibition 2009

2009-08-11T15:11:00.000-07:00

Summer in Nyboder
The Gallery exhibits new unique pieces by 19 Danish ceramic artists

Exhibitors
Ane-Katrine von Bülow
Photo: Ole Akhøj

Anne Fløche

Barbro Åberg
www.barbroaberg.dk
Photo: Lars Henrik Mardahl

Better Lübbert www.better-lubbert.com

Hans Vangsø
Photo: Ole Akhøj

Helle Hove
www.hellehove.dk
Photo: Ole Akhøj

Iben Kielberg
www.glasnettet.dk
Photo: Ole Akhøj

Jac Hansen

Jeanette Hiiri

Karen Bennicke
www.karenbennicke.dk

Karen Harsbo
Karin Michelsen www.karinmichelsen.dk

Lis Ehrenreich

Mette Marie Ørsted
Photo: Ole Akhøj.

Morten Løbner
Espersen
www.espersen.nu

Ninna Gøtzsche
www.ninnag.com

Sandra Davolio

Sten Lykke Madsen

Ann Linnemann

Landscape Blue - Coffee/tea sets

2009-08-11T15:08:00.000-07:00

Landscape Blue - Body Blue
Paul Scott & Ann Linnemann collaboration

Coffee and tea sets
These new objects are the result of an ongoing collaboration between Ann Linnemann and Paul Scott, which began in 2004 when they worked together on sculptural forms for their exhibition Body Blue at Galleri Nørby in Copenhagen.

The printed and lustred fine porcelain cups (which undergo four firings before completion) 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 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 very 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 now available from Ann’s Gallery in Copenhagen, and from Paul Scott in Cumbria.

New patterned surfaces and forms are being developed for future exhibition and irregular sale.

Paul Scott Cumbrian Blue(s)
cumbrianblues@mac.com
www.cumbrianblues.com

Ann Linnemann studio gallery
Exhibition April 18 - May 16 2009
Landscape Blue - Paul Scott UK og Ann Linnemann DK
Foto: Ann Linnemann

Anne Fløche - Exhibition March 2009

2009-08-11T14:46:00.000-07:00

Anne Fløche

Anne Fløche unites the history of the past with a vibrant presence. In the rectangle and eclipse ceramic forms the dusty colours meet in ochre, grey, Italian red and gentle blue with white and black.
The stories may be from lost civilisations architecture or nature, but it talks through times about presence, life here and now.
Ann Linnemann studio gallery March 7 - April 7 2009
Gallery photoes: Ann Linnemann

Iben Kielberg

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Iben Kielberg loves colours and patterns. She masters the combination of the warm lively glass and sand blast decorations on the surface. The motives often come from nature and can be everything from beetles to butterflies.

Iben has worked at several glass studios, Peter Svarrer glass studio, and from 1996–2008 she had been running the Glasværkstedet in Ebeltoft together with glass artist, Søren Ringgård. She has exhibited at numerous art associoations and at Charlottenborg (Spring-and Autumn exhibitions), the Danish Museum of Art and Design, and the Ebeltoft Museum of Glass.

http://www.glasnettet.dk/

Ane-Katrine von Bülow

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Ane-Katrine von Bülow works with serigraphy in 3D form, where graphic silk screen prints are transferred to simple ceramic forms.
Ane-Katrine has received the prestigious Westerwald Prize in 2004, the international Salt Glaze Competition 2006, Koblenz, DE, and Danish Crafts Collection ”Best Craftsmanship”, New York 2005. Solo exhibitions at Galleri Nørby DK, Gallery Puls BE and Galerie St. Joseph, NL. www.anekatrinevonbulow.dk

Exhibition Flower Power - Ann Linnemann studio gallery February 2009

Flower Power Exhibition - February 2009

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Flower Power Ane-Katrine von Bülow & Iben Kielberg

Ann Linnemann studio gallery February 3 – 28 2009
Ane-Katrine von Bülow and Iben Kielberg show new work at this flowering exhibition of ceramics and glass. It focuses on the happy colours and patterns. They were both educated at Denmarks Designschool in Copenhagen and from different paths have come together for this exhibition in Copenhagen.

Ane-Katrine von Bülow works with serigraphy in 3D form, where graphic silk screen prints are transferred to simple ceramic forms.
Ane-Katrine has received the prestigious Westerwald Prize in 2004, the international Salt Glaze Competition 2006, Koblenz, DE, and Danish Crafts Collection ”Best Craftsmanship”, New York 2005. Solo exhibitions at Galleri Nørby DK, Gallery Puls BE and Galerie St. Joseph, NL. www.anekatrinevonbulow.dk

Iben has worked at several glass studios, Peter Svarrer glass studio, and from 1996–2008 she had been running the Glasværkstedet in Ebeltoft together with glass artist, Søren Ringgård. Iben has exhibited at numerous art associoations and at Charlottenborg (Spring-and Autumn exhibitions), the Danish Museum of Art and Design, and the Ebeltoft Museum of Glass. www.glasnettet.dk/

Formateket - Exhibition January 2009

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FORMATEKET

Vicki Hansen - Joan Høgh - Kirsten Høholt - Pi Bjørg - Birgitte Due Madsen
Five new buds for young ceramic form & design
Ann Linnemann studio gallery January 3 - 31 2009
The studio group Formateket exhibits individuel work

www.formateket.dk
Birgitte Due Madsen Glas & Keramikskolen Bornholm, ceramic, 2005
Kirsten Høholt, 29 Bath Spa University College, 3-D Design Ceramic, 2004
Theme: ”WHEN A FEATHER BECOMES A CHICKENRUN”
Joan Høgh, 36 www.joanhoegh.dk Denmarks Designschool, product design, 2003
Pi Bjørg, 25 http://street‐ceramics.blogspot.com
Vicki Hansen, 30 www.vickihansen.dk

Coffee/tea sets - Landscape Blue

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Coffee/tea set - Landscape Blue - Scott & Linnemann
Motives are trees, garden landscapes & ornaments .. Coffee & tea cup - plates- trays
Hand thrown porcelain, high-fired - blue silk-screen print - gold/silver rim - max. 50 pieces per motive
In 2009 the National Danish Arts Foundation awarded the collaboration project.

Taking Time: Crafts and the Slow Movement:
Link ->> exhibition UK ->> Website Paul Scott
->> More information: Scott & Linnemann - blue/white

Hans Vangsø - Exhibition November 2008

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Hans Vangsø

Ann Linnemann studio gallery 1 – 27 november 2008

Collections
Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum, Copenhagen
Grimmerhus Museum of Ceramic Art, Funen
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Photo: Ole Akhøj

Portrait - Exhibition October 2008

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Ann Linnemann
Portrait

The Ann Linnemann studio gallery in Copenhagen is celebrating its 10th anniversary.

The exhibition shows sculptural 'portraits' that were made in Denmark by Ann Linnemann. These works were inspired by journeys abroad and international studio residencies during the past ten years.

In 1998, Linnemann established the gallery and studio in Nyboder, Copenhagen. Later that year, she was awarded the three year stipend by the Statens Kunstfond (Danish National Arts Foundation).

The exhibition - Portrait
The theme of this solo exhibition is the 'human'; abstract forms of the body drawing from cultural traditions within ceramics; the 'Tang' glaze, wood fired surfaces, pure porcelain, ceramic prints (made by the British artist, Paul Scott).
The focus is the various connecting points between the individual pieces, the history of ceramics and the meeting of opposites.

The exhibition is partly retrospective. The selected early pieces are composed with new pieces. They work together to tell a different story about dualism, interaction and the 'contrary' to form a new dialogue.

The exhibition shows Ann Linnemann’s ten years of artistic and technical development as well as her exploration of culture, form and material.

The memories and cultural stories are set into play by the linked 'body portraits'. These portraits may speak to the viewer about their own personal presence, their experience, senses, illusions and visions.

Teapots - Exhibition September 2008

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The Sensible Pots - De Sjældne Kander
Ann Linnemann studio gallery September 6 - October 2 2008
Do you have time to enjoy your coffee/tea break in company with good friends and beautiful unique things on the table?
TEA - COFFEE – CUP – JAR - SUGAR/CREAMER
The gallery shows unique tea pots and tea-/coffee sets by Danish ceramists.
Exhibitors (same order as the photoes)
Henriette Duckert www.henrietteduckert.dk "Mange Blomster" h. 21cm.
Birgitte Ran Bennike Mayall www.birgitteran.dk ”Frøken tekanden” ca. 1 litre
Bente Hansen www.bentehansen.dk
Ninna Gøtzsche www.ninnag.com
Gurli Elbækgaard www.danskkeramik.dk
Ann Linnemann

Christian Bruun www.christianbruun.com
Karina Skibby www.damhuset.dk
Lis Biggas www.butikforborddaekning.dk
Malene Møller Hansen www.malene-moeller-hansen.dk

Unique meal - Exhibition August 2008

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The unique meal
August 9 - September 4 2008 Ann Linnemann studio gallery
SEE - TASTE - INVITE
The Gallery exhibits short series of unique functional ware in ceramics and glass for the table and kitchen.
Plates, bowls and sushi set by Ann Linnemann, bowls with graphic prints by Ane-Katrine von Bülow, glass by Iben Kielberg, figurative salt jars by Sten Lykke Madsen, vases by Sandra Davolio and coffee sets by guest exhibitor Nina Gøtzsche.

Summer Exhibition June - August 2008

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Summer Flowers – vases and vessels
June 7 - August 7 2008
Ann Linnemann studio gallery

Images: Lone Skov Madsen, Ann Linnemann, Iben Kielberg, Sandra Davolio

Sandra Davolio - Exhibition May 2008

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Sandra Davolio
Ceramic objects in dialogue with rhythms of life

Ann Linnemann studio gallery April 26 – May 31 2008

Biography www.sandradavolio.dk
Born 1951 Correggio, Reggio Emilia, Italy - Living in Danmark since1974 - Own studio 1985 - Member of Danske Kunsthåndværkere

Education Danmarks Design Skole 1985

Teacher Lundtofte Gl. Skole Keramikværkstedet, Lyngby-Taarbæk; Studio Pandora, Sorano, Italy; Keramikskolen, Copenhagen DK

Selected exhibitions

2008 Art Herning 2008 - gaalleri New Form, Trelleborg

2007 Aalborg Kunstpavillon - ”Cerco Aragòn, Saragoza, Spanien - Huset i Asnæs - International Furniture Fair, Bella Center, Copenhagen - Illums Bolighus, Copenhagen - Galleri Humlum, Struer - KIC (Kunsthåndværk I Centrum), Århus - Galleri New Form, Trelleborg.

2006 Borreby Slot, Skælskør - KunstHåndværkDesign, Janus Bygning, Tistrup - Design& Brugskunst, Bella Center, Copenhagen - ”Porcelæn”, Huset i Asnæs - International Furniture Fair Bella Center, KCopenhagen - KIC Kunsthåndværk i Centrum, Århus

2005 Galleri Carlin, Paris - Gallery Nørby (Conversation pieces) - Skovhuset,Værløse (HCA Eventyr 16 artists)

2004 Galleria Jean Blanchaert, Milano, Italy - White, Fiskars, Finland - Galleri Brantebjerg, Nykøbing Sj - Galleri Pagter, Kolding - Farum Kulturhus, Farum - Galleri Nørby, Copenhagen.

2003 53th International Ceramic Art Competition, Faenza, Italy - Galleria 8,75, Reggio Emilia, Italy - Galleri Nørby, Juleudstilling - Cerco Aragòn, Saragoza, Spain - Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling, Tistrup.

2002 Kunstnernes Forårsudstilling, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen - Kunstnernes Sommerudstilling, Tistrup - Kromatech-Tendenze, Rimini, Italy

2000 Etelå-Kartjalan Taaide Museum, Lappeenranta, Finland

1998 Galerie Ceramic Arts, Østrig - SAK Kunstbygning, Svendborg - Skovhuset, Værløse

1997 Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Tyskland - Borreby Galleri, Skælskør - 49. Internationale Handwerksmesse, München,Tyskland - Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany.

1996 Keramion, Europäische Keramik, Frechen, Tyskland - Galleria Materia Prima, Art and Crafts, Venice, Italy - Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand - Farum Kulturhus, Farum

1995 Galerie Blås & Knåda, Stockholm - Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen - Gug Kirke, Ålborg - Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, Århus - Bangsbo Museet, Frederikshavn

1994 Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy - Fletcher Challenge Ceramics Award, New Zealand - Daglidagens Rum og Ritualer, Den Frie, Copenhagen - Skovhuset, Værløse.

Grants

2006 Solarfonden, rejselegat

2004 Statens Kunstfond, arbejdslegat

2002 Dronning Ingrids Romerske Fond. Sport Goods Fonden, rejselegat

1998 Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond. Statens Kunstfond, arbejdslegat

1997 Statens Kunstfond, arbejdslegat. Kulturministeriet, rejselegat

1996 Kulturministeriet, rejselegat

1995 Nordisk Konst.och Kunstindustrikommitè. Københavns Tekniske Skoles rejselegat

1995 Københavns Tekniske Skole, rejselegat

Awards Ordine della Stella della Solidarietá Italiana (2007) - Årets Kunstner, Skovhuset, Værløse (2000) - Københavns Tekniske Skoles Kunsthåndværkerpris af 1978, sølvmedalje (1995)

Collections Kunstindustrimuseet, København, Statens Kunstfond, Danmarks Keramikmuseum Grimmerhus, Middelfart, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Tyskland, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italien, Bellerive Museum, Zürich, Schweiz, Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy, Collezione Maramotti, reggio Emilia, Italy

Sten Lykke Madsen Exhibition March/April 2008

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Sten Lykke Madsen
Ann Linnemann studio gallery March 1 - April 26 2008
Adventures fabel figures with humor poetry and storytelling
Fancyful - Fabulous - Fascinating - Felicitous - Fabulating

Biography - Sten Lykke Madsen
Born 1937 Copenhagen, Denmark
Education Kunsthåndværkerskolen, København 1958. Bronze award.
Kähler, Næstved 1958. Own studio 1959. Bing & Grøndahl 1962 – 86. Royal Copenhagen (Kgl. Porcelænsfabrik) 1986-2003.
Solo Exhibitions
Bing & Grøndahl 1971. Höganäs Museum 1973. Charlottenborg 1975. Koldinghus 1975. Keramiske Skulpturer. Vandreudstilling i Skotland arrangeret af Det Danske Kulturinstitut i Edinburg 1986-88. ”Keramiske Udtryk – med Kærlighed”, Lidköpings Konsthall 1987. Den Kgl. Porcelainsfabrik 1988 og 1995. Musikhuset i Århus 1990. Næstved Museum 1989 og 1998. Galerie b 15, München 1992. Rundetårn 1998. Galleri Nørby 1999, 2002 og 2006. Den Danske Ambassade i Berlin 2001. ”Salt”, Kunstindustrimuseet 2002. Galleri Pagter 2004. Galleri Svenshög, Lund 2005, Kähler, Næstved 2006. Fukuoka,Japan (med Takashi Nakazato) 2006.
Group Exhibitions
Bing & Grøndahl 1963,1965, 1967 og 1981. Nieman Marcus, Dallas 1964. Concorso Internazionale delle Ceramice, Faenza 1967, 1975, 1978 og 1981. International Ceramics, Victoria & Albert, London 1972. Chunichi International Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Japan 1976. Keramion, Frecehen. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1977. Kunstindustrimuseet 1978 og 1980. Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling, Charlottenborg 1983. Keramiske Veje, Den Fries Udstillingsbygning, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1997, 2000 og 2004. Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan 1984 og 1994. Denmark Modern Craft Exhibition, Seibu, Tokio 1987. 1. Bienal Internacional de Obidos, Portugal 1987. ”Design au Danemark 1950-87. Vandreudstilling i Frankrig 1987-88. ”Deense keramisten en Leen Quist”, Singer Museum og Galerie Amphora, Holland 1990. ”Form und Glasur”, Hoechst, Frankfurt 1991 og 2000. Galleri Nørby, København. 1995, 1996 og 2005. ”From Golden Age to The present Day”, Edinburg. 1995. Pro, Charlottenborg 1996. Den danske Keramiktrienale , Trapholt 1997. Grimmerhus 1997 og 2000. ”Keramik aus Dänemark”, München 1998. Ceramic Bienalle , Korea 2001. ”From the Kilns of Denmark” New York, Fitchburg, San Diego, Sacramento, Racine, Paris og Berlin. 2002–2004. Danmarks Hus, Stockholm 2003. Galleri Kaffeslottet, Gudhjem 2004. ”Sofa”, Chicago 2005. Museum De Tiendschuur, Holland 2005. World Clay, IAC members, Riga 2006.
Represented in collections
Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Grimmerhus; Helsingborg Museum; Höganäs Museum; Keramikmuseum, Westerwald; Kunstindustrimuseet; Museo Internazinale delle Ceramice, Faenca; Nationalmuseet, Stockholm; Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim; Ny Carlsbergfondet; Statens Kunstfond; Trapholt Museum ; Victoria & Albert, London; Museet i Fu-ping, Kina.
Commissions
Gavludsmykning Vesterbrogade 147, København 1978. Springvand, Store Torv, Holstebro 1986. Gavludsmykning Sølvgade 14, København 1993. Gavludsmykning Castberggård, Urlev 2002.
Grants and awards
Guldmedalje Museo Internazionale delle Ceramice, Faenza 1967 og 1975. Hofjuveler Michelsens Jubilæumslegat 1969, Paul Mindelegat 1971, Thannings Rejselegat 1972, Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond 1974, Ole Haslunds Legat 1984 og Statens Kunstfond 2003 og 2005 samt rejselegat 2004. Sølvsmed Kay Bojesens og hustru Erna Bojesens mindelegat 2005. Kunstforeningen af 14. august legat 2005.
Member of Académie Internationale de la Cèramique (AIC).

Ann Linnemann ceramic artist potter designer

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My ceramic work consists of design, production of a small unique series of hand-thrown functional ware, and sculptural form.

PHOTOS OF WORK ->> Design pottery - Skulptural form
ACTIVITIES ->> Biografi - Exhibitions - Workshop & projects
In my studio I make short series of functional ware of my own design, that are specifically developed for hand-thrown pottery production. The pieces are often simply altered from the round hand-thrown basic model to an asymmetric form.
A clear symbiosis between form, material and throwing technique is essential for my choice of new products.

The sculptural forms embody elements of humanity, movement and body language, and reflect my interest in different cultures, body form and expression.
My sculptural technique and ideas are in altering the hand-thrown elements to suggest body form.

The simple suggestions of a body are shown in the pure porcelain surface, while others refer to an idea, a concept, culture or personal memory.. by using classic glaze types or simple natural phenomena, where the clay is coloured and accentuated by the ashes or flames of the firing.

Photoes: Porcelain - hand thrown & altered - Human scale 1:1

Suggestion
The naked ceramic form with the intimate body suggestions are gently shown in the pure white porcelain.
Body – Human - Movement
The body forms appear from the idea of a torso. The forms are cylindrical and refer to parts of the body.
Form - Material - Surface
The porcelain pieces are either purely white or ash coloured.
The settled ashes from the wood-fired kiln dramatically colour and accentuate the sculptural forms.

Body Landscape - culture landscape 2009

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Body Landscape
porcelain - handthrown & altered - ash glazez ..ceramic colour - inspired by culture landscapes from Australia and Denmark.

Exhibition: Culture Landscape - october 2009