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Jewels are catching. They are incredible, mystical, playful, serious, dangerous, powerful, and so much more.
There is something enchanting in their history, in the tradition and in the materials. The sparkling stones, silver and gold, plastic, acrylic and all the queer or common bits and pieces we surround ourselves with. Fragments of units and fragments of ourselves.
Fragments which can be combined infinitely into new adventures and are assigned to interpretation and meaning – Stand out and provide news from odd corners of a round world.
This is what occupies me.
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| | 1971 | | 23.09.71 | | Education | 2000-2004 | | Institute of Precious Metal – School of Goldsmiths. Copenhagen.
| | Exhibition | 2007 | | BIENNALEN 07. Trapholt/Koldinghus, Denmark. | 2007 | | 'Throphy’. Galerie Pi, København. | 2007 | | Officinet, København. | 2007 | | ’KLASSISK UPDATE’ –byUs. Galleri Iron Inc., Copenhagen. | 2006 | | 10 years of Au-ART. Round Tower. Copenhagen | 2006 | | ARTSPACE 2006’, Henley on Thames, London. | 2006 | | ’GIRLS BEST FRIEND’ –byUs. Galleri Iron Inc., Copenhagen.
| 2006 | | ‘TWO CLOSE ONES’, Tallinn 4th Applied Art Triennial, Estland. | 2005 | | ‘Denmark, I am’. Galerie Pi, Copenhagen.
| 2005 | | ’CUFFLINKS’. Mikala Mortensen, København. | 2005 | | 'kultS. Berlin, Germany.
| 2005 | | The National Bank of Denmark. Copenhagen. | 2005 | | byUs. gold, silver, watches Fair. Bellacenter, Copenhagen. | 2005 | | Galleri Munken. Løkken, Denmark. | 2005 | | Galerie für Schmuck. Flensburg, Germany. | 2005 | | Galerie Alternatives. Rome, Italy | 2004 | | FORM/DESIGN CENTER, Malmø, Sweden. | 2004 | | Galerie Boye, AArhus. Denmark. | 2004 | | 2nd generation. gold, silver, watches Fair. Bellacenter, Copenhagen. | 2004 | | The Danish Museum of Jewellery, Møn. Denmark. | 2004 | | Friends of Fanny. Officinet, Copenhagen. | 2004 | | ByUs/Final projects exhibition of the Institute of Precious Metals at The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen | 2004 | | Friends of Fanny. Frednes Kunstsenter, Porsgrunn. Norway. | 2003 | | 1+1. gold, silver, watches Fair. Bellacenter, Copenhagen.
| 2003 | | Myth of the ring. Galleri FOLD, Norway. | 2003 | | 6 starting points – 6 rings. Galerie Pi, Copenhagen.
| 2002 | | before Christmas, Frederikssund, Denmark. | 2002 | | gold, silver, watches Fair. Bellacenter, Copenhagen. | 2001 | | Objects for Dreams, gallery ”Aurum”, Copenhagen. | | Other | 2004 | | Part of ”Au-art” design workshop, Copenhagen. | 2004 | | Travel grant, the Jubilee Foundation of the Danish National Bank. | 2002 | | Arts&games Bellacentret, Copenhagen. | 2001 | | Arts&games Holbæk, Denmark. 5th Arts&games festival. Berlin, Germany.
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‘FLOWERS’
- is a brooch, where the petals are individually shaped by hand. The brooch is therefore unique in its shape. The design is completed by a simple and special closing mechanism.
925 silver, acrylic and all kinds of different content. |
The “Daisy”, a brooch designed by A. Michelsen company in 1940 celebrating crow princess Margrethe’s birthday, was and still is a very popularly brooch among Danish people, and for me, as a jewellery artist, a challenge to work with.
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For a period of time, I have worked with the idea of a Danish identity, using well-known symbols and references.
My works is dealing with and works as a comment to the growing nationalism and intolerance in Denmark, a development I’m against and find hard to accept. Along with the fact, that I myself, have the ultimate Danish background, -with long summers in the sun, pop music and the all-embracing welfare system.
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