Merete Rasmussen

I am interested in the way one defines and comprehends space through physical form. My shapes can represent an idea of a captured movement, as a flowing form stretching or curling around itself, or the idea can derive from repeated natural forms or even complex mathematical constructions.

Different form expressions appeal to me and results in my continuous exploration with many different variations: soft but precise curves, sharp edges, concave surfaces shifting to convex; the discovery and strength of an inner or negative space. I am intrigued by the idea of a continuous surface, for example with one connected edge running through an entire form.

Strong colours appeal to me and I find they can add further strength and presence to a form.

Biography

Born in Copenhagen and grew up in Sweden, I returned to Denmark to study MA Ceramics at the Designskolen Kolding and have since graduating in 2005 lived and worked in the UK. After 12 years in London I moved to the countryside in East Sussex.

MRSS Member of Royal Society of Sculptors.

Public / Private Collections

V&A Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
MAD Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
National Museum of Scotland, UK
Crafts Council Collection, UK
York Art Gallery, UK
Oldham Art Gallery, UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK
FNAC National Fund of Contemporary Arts, France
TERRA, International Sculpture Symposium, Serbia
Guldagergaard, The International Ceramic Research Centre, Denmark
Luminate Capital, San Francisco, USA