a Copenhagen based fine art photographer and printmaker.
My focus is on People and Places in urban or landscape areas. Born in Denmark in 1951 I have worked, travelled and studied abroad and the inspirational input has been converted into the use of historical and alternative photographic techniques such as cyanotype, platinum-palladium printing and photogravure. It is in the slowness of these handmade processes that I obtain an individual
expression of my images and this is where I feel at home. A supplement to our digital world. My photographic work often emerges in the form of thematic series like “Blues of India”, “Manhattan 2002”, “Public Space”, “In Passing” and others. It is however through the portraiture that I am given the opportunity of focusing on the destiny of women, which perhaps is best expressed in the interdisciplinary exhibition of “The Desertwomen’s Quilts” and in the “Immigrant” portrait of 92-year old Marianne, Polish born, today a French citizen.
Sole exhibitions
2008 Gallery Varming, Copenhagen
2008 Gallery Think Ink - Art on Paper, Copenhagen
2006 The Röhss Museum of Applied Art and Design, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2005 The Round Tower
2004 The Round Tower, Copenhagen
2002 Textile Forum, Herning, Jutland
2001 Filosofgangen - Funen’s Exhibition Hall for Arts & Design, Odense
2000 Moestings Hus, Copenhagen
1998 The Indian Embassy, Copenhagen, “Gjethuset”, Frederiksvaerk
1997 Helsinge Cultural House
1996 Lyngby Townhall
1995 Elsinore Library
Juried exhibitions
2009 Portrait Now’, Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Nordic Portrait Exhibition, Frederiksborg Castle
2007 The Artists Autumn Exhibition KE - Den Frie - Copenhagen
Portrait Now’, Brewer J.C. Jacobsen’s Portrait Exhibition, Frederiksborg Castle
2005 The Artists Summer Exhibition - KS - Tistrup, Jutland
2005 The Artcenter Silkeborg Bad, The Classic Monochrome Salon
2002 The Artists Autumn Exhibition KE - Copenhagen - Den Frie
Study-, travel- and exhibitiongrants
2008 L.F. Foghts Foundation, Ingwersenske Foundation, Etatsråd J.M.Bings Mindelegat
2006 Beckett Foundation · Grosserer L.F. Foghts Foundation
2005 DANIDA, Danish Center for Culture and Development, Højskolernes Håndarbejde
2004 L.F. Foghts Foundation, Knud Hojgaard Foundation, DCCD, MS Danish Association for International Co-operation
2002 The Knud Hojgaard Foundation
2001 DANIDA
2000 Crafts.dk, Danish Center for Culture and Development
1999 Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Beckett Foundation, Unidanmark Foundation
1998 Ministry of Education
1994 DANIDA
Group exhibitions
2011 Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Finland
2010 Akureyri Artmuseum, Iceland
Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo
The Fynen Graphic Workshop, ‘Summe Exhibition’
Ljungbergmuseum, Sweden
The Fynen Graphic Workshop, ‘New members’, January
2009 Galleri Varming, Copenhagen ‘Christmas Exhibition’, The Fynen Graphic Workshop,‘Christmas Exhibition’ The Fynen Graphic Workshop Summer Exhibition
2008 Galleri Varming, Copenhagen ‘Christmas Exhibition’
2008 Norsk Folkemuseum, Oslo, NORWAY
2008 Ljungbergmuseet, Ljungby, SWEDEN
2008 Næstved International Miniprint Exhibition, DENMARK
2008 Amos Andersons Konstmuseum, Helsinki, FINLAND
2007 Christmas Exhibition Gallery Think Ink, Copenhagen
2007 Hafnarborg, Institute of Culture and Fine Art, ICELAND
2005 Bjerager Photographic Gallery, Jutland
2004 ”Women focusing”, Dannerhuset, Copenhagen
2001 Indian Embassy, Exhibition at Asia House, Copenhagen
2000 “Indian Inspiration” - F.L. Smidth A/S
Other
2009 Image selected for Alternative Photography’s 2010 Calendar
Represented
Museet for Fotokunst, The Funen Graphic Workshop, Odense, in many Danish Art Associations
and private collections
Foreign countries
I have lived and worked 7 years in France, I have been visiting India on numerous long field trips. These trips also enabled me to seek spiritual development through ashram life; the spiritual issue is an important part of my life and work the last many years. I have studied at ICP International Center of Photography in New York City and I have been visiting Iceland
on several occasions.
Publications
My photographic essay “Quilts & Portraits from Kutch” was published in 2004
Member of
BKF - The Danish Association of Visual Artists, The Funen Graphic Workshop, Odense,
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