UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD THROUGH GLASS AND CLAY
Each year a little more than a dozen young craftspeople graduate from a highly specialized school in the Baltic Sea. In this series of videos you can meet the 12 bachelor graduates from the Royal Danish Academy – Crafts in Glass and Ceramics, get a glimpse of their artistic processes and hear them reflect on their thoughts and ideas.
At the school in Nexø, Bornholm natural materials are shaped and formed, burned and melted in an effort to investigate hidden potentials and explore phenomena far beyond the walls of the workshops.
In their projects this year’s bachelor graduates have delved into digital self-representation and created busts from Bitmojis or Memojis, one have speculated on what cryptocurrencies would look and feel like in a giant physical shape and another one uses a spinning glass technique to gaze into the mezmerizing infinity of space. Personal stories are linked to societal issues when the lithium in bipolar-medication is paralleled with the extraction of the earth’s precious resources or when the feeling of too many expectations turns into wiggly, dancing vases.
Some invite us to a board game with recycled glass, to reconnect with our inner child’s curiosity for science experiments, to rethink our relation to chairs, or to think about our bodies as liquid. The enviormental degradation is explored through greek vases and sgraffito-techniques, through glass sculptures that look more like mushrooms than glass, and through reinventing a 8000 year old “technology“; the brick.
This year’s bachelor graduates are: Anna Rolighed Thyme, Annika Hviid, Bastien Chomienne, Gabriella Gormley, Julie Tagholm Hansen, Laurie Coline Pin, Léa Tarakdjian, Marie Breyen Hauschildt, Marlene Gartner, Phillip ‘Swede’ Hickok, Sidsel Holsteen Davidsen and Zuzanna Skurka.
Their exhibition Flat Craft is on view at Bornholms Kunstmuseum until the 11th of September, 2022. The works will also be shown at CLAY Keramikmuseum in Middelfart, Glasmuseet in Ebeltoft and Bygning A in Copenhagen. Read more about the exhibition here.
Bornholms Kunstmuseum: June 24 - September 11, 2022.
CLAY Keramikmuseum: September 23 - November 20, 2022.
Glasmuseet Ebeltoft: September 23 - November 20, 2022.
Bygning A: November 25, 2022 - January 8, 2023.
The videos in this article are produced for the Royal Danish Academy – Crafts in Glass and Ceramics by I DO ART Agency. I DO ART Agency is a communication agency that solves tasks for art institutions and artists, but it is not possible to pay for content on idoart.dk.
Cover: Anna Rolighed Thyme. Photo: I DO ART Agency.
