Join us for this 25 minute conversation with the lovely Anne Mette Hjortshøj, part 1 of 3. She talks about the benefits of living and working on the potter’s island of Bornholm in Denmark, a visit from the Queen, and the joys of being able to discover and use local clays and glaze materials in her work. She discusses how she chooses pots for a gallery show while maintaining artistic integrity and remaining focussed on making pots only for herself. She speaks of her lifelong love of Korean ceramics and her visits to the Mungyeong Teabowl Festival. And finally, she relates the joys of working with other potters, how to be a teacher, how to be a student, the importance of firing test pieces and, most importantly, never to judge pots when first opening the kiln. Enjoy!
Rewilding Tradition
Anne Mette’s mission to unearth the hidden clays and minerals on the island of Bornholm shows that tradition need not be staid and sterile, writes Robin Holt. Anne Mette Hjortshøj’s originality is born from observing, remembering, and repeating tradition to a point where it becomes a unique and hard-won ‘giving over’ to what has gone … Read more