Artists selected for the 2009 BIGG: Breakthrough Ideas in Global Glass are:

Artist Statement
As a visual artist I primarily work with glass. Glass as an artistic media, gives me an opportunity to work with its very unique qualities; foremost its ability to capture and freeze movements. Use of transparency, light and reflection. I try to be very honest with my artwork; I try to tell my stories and beliefs through my work. Honesty, joy and presence are essentials drives in my creative process, that's the essence I believe I can transcendence through the material glass. Glass as a media captures for me the tension field between fragility and the massive, between lightness and gravity. Between transparency and the opaque.  With my installation ”Falling Water” I play with the cooperation and the discord of lightness and weight. "Falling Water" Is about poesy, a frozen moment captured. It is about how the body connects to the surroundings. I want to give the viewer a new experience of something familiar. To make us remember to be present and alive. The installation; "Falling Water" is a cloud made of 1000 drops of solid glass.

Biography
I'm a very curious and open minded. I graduated from the Glass and ceramic school at Bornholm, in the Summer of 2008.  I was then a Teaching Assistant at the European Glass Context in Denmark and an assistant for Jocelyne Prince’s "Spin event" in Amsterdam, which involved dancing with glass and was a lot of fun. I was also a participant at "Scandinavian Light in Wakefield", a neon workshop in England, introducing me to an amazing new world. Then I was awarded an "Artist in residency", at IKA in Mechelen, which has been a wonderful challenge. During my stay here in Belgium, I have acted as an assistant in Kazushi Nakada's workshop.

Resume
Education
2008    Glass and ceramic school at Bornholm, glass
International neoncourse with Richard Wheater and Peta Bickerstaff
2005    Accepted at Glas & Keramikskolen

Professional Experience
2009    Assistant: Kazushi Nakada , workshop:  Museum for Modern Glassart, Denmark, "Glass form and techniques", at IKA
2008    T.A., European Glass Context 2008/ workshop, Denmark, Instructors: Jocelyne Prince, Martin Thaulow, Karen Lisa Salamon
Artist in resident, IKA, Mechelen, Belgium
Assistant: Jocelyne Prince, “Spin event”, Amsterdam, Holland, students from the Glass- and ceramic school and Kjaerstrup Chocolate.
2007    Apprenticeship; Jenny Pohlmann & Sabrina Knowles, Seattle and Rachel Berwick, New Haven, USA
2005    Assistant to Per-René Larsen / Fanefjord Glas
1998    Course at Engelsholm Kunsthøjskole, glassblowing, sculpturing, painting and jewellery crafting.
1995-96    Delegate for Danish Red Cross, stationed in Ethiopia.

Exhibitions
2009    UnderGrund, in Cisternerne
2008    Scandianavian Light in Wakefield, England
    Going Places, Malmø Form/Design Center, Lilla Torg, 20314 Malmö
    Going Places, Svankegaarden Skippergade nr. 2-6, 3740 Svaneke, Denmark
    Going Places, Designer Zoo, Vesterbrogade 137, 1620 København V. Denmark
    Going Places, Bornholms Kunstmuseum, Helligdommen, Rø, DK-3760, Gudhjem, Denmark
    Masnedø Fort, Fortvej 8, 4760 Vordingborg, Denmark

Awards and Honors
2007    “A heavenly mouthful”. Corporation project together with 5 other artists

Publications    
2001    Teaching material “The end of the universe” for Museum of Contemporary Art

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