2025
Glazed Earthenware
h50 x w40 x d10cm

Malene Hartmann Rasmussen’s ceramics are narrative driven, sculptural works of caricatured flora and fauna, both recognisable and fantasy that tell us stories old and new. Her works draw from imagination, mythology and folklore to produce tableaus of creatures that appear playful but on closer inspection have a darker narrative and perhaps a cautionary tale to tell. Hartmann Rasmussen says: “I try to create a place beyond reality, a deceitful echo of the real world, that bends the perception of what is real … Initially the viewer may, mistakenly, be drawn to my figures thinking them to be toys; however closer examination reveals their rather darker narrative.”