Interchangeable Still Life, 2025

Jeanne Blissett Robertson X Josephine Mette Larsen Artist Collaboration

stoneware

12" x 7" x 14.25"

Take home this unique collaboration by two of our Resident Artists. These three matte-black flower stems in a tiered vase are removable and meant to be reconfigured in different ways. This collaboration between combines Josephine's minimalist aesthetic with Jeanne's otherworldly plant forms, a unique and stunning addition to any collection!

Artist(s) Statement

{Josephine Mette Larsen} The physical process of creating ceramics holds a special place in my practice and heart. I believe in and deeply value this process. Thinking through the material, I receive and respond to the information at hand, which is revealed by the process. This essential push and pull between myself and the material is where my experience of being a craftsman is enriched - mentally and physically immersed in the process. I appreciate that the material I work with challenges me as much as I challenge it.

{Jeanne Blissett Robertson} I am a ceramic artist exploring the interaction and interconnectivity between nature, design, and human experience in the context of our current climate crisis. My works visualize incongruous relationships between organic forms and symbols/graphics that exemplify human design. Present in my work is a fluidity between what's man-made and what's from natural origin, putting into question how something is formed and how different timescales connect and interact with each other.

Artist(s) Biography

Jeanne Blissett Robertson graduated with an Honors BA in Sculpture & Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2015. Since then she has lived and worked internationally carrying out artist residencies in Abu Dhabi (Manarat Al Saadiyat), Mexico (Trapo Galeria), Edinburgh (Edinburgh Ceramics Workshop) and most recently Ullapool, Scotland (An Talla Solais). She recently received an Arts Council England grant, 'Developing Your Creative Practice', for a self-tailored ceramics training programme where she learnt from crafts people based in Scotland. Her activity included salt-glazing in Isle of Skye, making geological glazes with rocks from Assynt (world heritage site), foraging for clay and minerals, and multiple-part mould making for slip-casting. Alongside her practice, Robertson delivers experimental art workshops for people of all ages and abilities.

Josephine Mette Larsen is a Danish-American ceramicist, born and raised in the U.S. to a mother and father who immigrated from Denmark in the 90s. She has split her time between the U.S. and Europe, during her education and work experience within the field of ceramics. Larsen's education in ceramics reflects her bicultural background as she holds a BA in design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Denmark and an MFA in ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, USA. The specific context of Denmark, however, has been instrumental in the establishment of her artistic identity as it carries a long history of high quality craft and design. At the nucleus of Larsen's practice is a strong sense of craftsmanship.

Donated by the artist(s) - Jeanne Blissett Robertson & Josephine Mette Larsen

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