Lotte Westphael
Lotte Westphael, born 1965 in Denmark. Educated at Design School Kolding (MA), Denmark and potteries in Japan. Westphael made her debut at the censured exhibition Charlottenborg Springexhibition, Copenhagen in 2016. Since she has exhibited through Europe and the United States, including The American Museum Of Ceramic Art (AMOCA), Plinth Gallery, Denver, The Danish Cultural Institut, St. Petersburg, Russia, Kagoshima Museum, Japan, Hjorths Museum, Denmark, Skovgaard Museum, Denmark and Ann Linnemann Gallery, Copenhagen.
She has attented several biennales, including Ceramic Art Andenne, Belgium, Biennale de Vallauris at Musée Magnelli Vallauris, France, II Porzellanbiennale at Albrechtsburg Meissen, Germany.
Westphael is represented by Galerie Maria Wettergren, Paris, and has exhibited at Design Miami-Basel, PAD London and TEFAF Maastricht.
Westphael is included in The Caroline and Dan Anderson Collection.
Westphael has received several grants from The Danish Arts Foundation.
My vessels are called “Syncope” and the name refers to a musical expression.
I make vessels with structural compositions of colored porcelain, based on a personal immersion in a technique unfolded within a graphic universe.
The work with the cylinders is circumstantial, and the pattern created in the manufacturing process. I use a technique which consists of cutting thin slabs of colored porcelain into strips, which I unify with a thin, vibrating line of colored slip. I work two-dimensionally to construct the pattern with vertical and horizontal lines into one long slab, which are finely assembled into a cylindrical jar: a Syncope.
The outside surface of the vessel is mirrored on the inside, creating a visual relationship.
I am inspired by woven Bauhaus fabrics, and I work with proportionality in lines and colorfields, citing Anni Albers and Josef Albers as inspiration, as well as my Nordic heritage.
I use repetitions of lines with different distance, width and thickness to create intricated patterns. My newest work is about gradient colors to make a vanishing effect.
My vessels are translucent and fragile, and at the same time with a strong, geometrical expression.
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