Malene Hartmann Rasmussen

Malene Hartmann Rasmussen is a Danish artist working within the field of narrative figurative sculpture and installation. Educated from Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, School of Design, Bornholm and Royal College of Art in London, she now lives and works in London.

A recurring theme in the artist’s work is the forest and the mythological creatures that lurks in the dark woods. Her mixed-media ceramic installations uses motifs from both the domestic and natural world. Memories, daydreams and childhood nostalgia are all called upon by the artist, who weaves them together into a fairy-tale of her own making. The artist’s interest in the forest stems from its recurrence in European literature and myth, ancient cults, pagan rituals and as a metaphor for the hidden realms of the unconscious mind. Comprising a number of elaborate fragments, she creates