[…] accepts applications twice a year, supports opportunities for children and young people to work with professional artists. However, in 2022, just 5.7% of the applications came from designers and makers. To address this issue, Formkraft asked five makers who have all completed residencies to describe both their positive experiences and the main challenges for […]
Since the artist-in- residence programme was launched in 2006, visual artists in particular appear to have cracked the code for successful applications. Meanwhile, professional craft artists and designers remain poorly represented when it comes to project funding. Formkraft looks into potentials and challenges for craft artists and designers.
Two jewellery designers come together, bridging generations, educational backgrounds and professional perspectives. The differences are clear between 69-year-old Kim Buck and 31-year-old Klara Bloch, but a shared understanding quickly emerges in their conversation – including the realisation that jewellery only acquires its true meaning when it meets the person who wears it.
To put it a bit crudely, artists go into working with craft materials and processes as amateurs. What do you think the strength of the craft schools is in that perspective? "They are there so that skilled craftsmen can create a practical aesthetic solution, such as giving us a good ergonomic chair for a […]
[…] - all textile genres that are made with ‘soft’ materials. We observe how textile expressions are growing in the visual arts, how students and recent graduates from design schools visit our workshops for further training because they are hungry for tangible professional knowledge and insight into their subject. At the National Gallery of Denmark, the […]
[…] NCECA (National Council for the Education of the Ceramic Arts) Tales of a red clay rambler (amerikansk podcast) 457: Caroline Cheng on upcycling ceramic waste into environmental design. Cheng is the Executive Director of the art center, which promotes ceramics throughout China, and has studios in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dali and Jingdezhen. 458: An […]
[…] can bring to the public space by virtue of its inherent material culture, techniques and aesthetics. And why it is more relevant than ever to include craft makers and designers when state-owned buildings are renovated, when municipalities develop decorative projects and when private actors seek to imbue the modern city with soul and sensuous qualities.
[…] their materiality – their sensuous appearance or effect – is not just a factor in artistic practices but also in the discussion of theoretical topics at art schools and art academies and in cultural studies at universities, such as anthropology and art history. The field of Material Culture Studies is generating a growing number […]
What’s the fuss about? In the autumn of 2023, Tideland Studio exhibited a collection of 3D-printed works at the Biennale for Craft & Design in the old welding hall at Copenhagen Contemporary. The nine small figures, intricately constructed from strands of fired clay, may seem a bit peculiar at first glance. But make no […]
[…] in new buildings, which reinterpreted the town’s character. One of these new builds is the town hall from 1981: ‘Despite its scale and concrete construction, the building, designed by architects Halldor Gunnløgsson and Jørn Nielsen, is adapted to the site with low buildings, red bricks and large tile roofs’9. The modernization of Tønder as […]