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The conversation between Marit Tingleff and Dr. Tanya Harrod will be based on Tingleff's latest production and shed light on the ceramic processes and methods that form the basis of the works. Tingleff holds on to the connecting lines of older potter and porcelain traditions, while at the same time demonstrating an expressive power in the way she handles clay and decoration.

The conversation will be held in English, and will last about 50 minutes followed by Q&A's. The event is free and open to all.

Marit Tingleff is a Norwegian ceramist. She creates monumental works where the ceramics are used as a canvas. Tingleff has her education from Bergen School of Crafts (1974–1977). The same year she finished her degree, she established her own workshop. She had her international breakthrough at the exhibition Scandinavian Craft Today in Japan and in the USA in 1987–1988. Her work is inspired by old Norwegian potter's art, reshaped into a personal and modern idiom. Tingleff is especially known for her large dishes with a strong decorative power. In recent years, she has also worked with light and shadow effects by perforating parts of the surface. She is represented at several museums, such as the Design Museum Denmark, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Museum in Norway.

Dr. Tanya Harrod is a British art historian who, since 1999, has worked to educate people on social, political and philosophical debates relating to the arts and crafts of the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Harrod has written the award-winning book The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century (Yale University Press, 1999) which accompanied an exhibition at the University of East Anglia. The exhibition, named The Pleasures of Peace: Mid-Century Craft and Art in Britain, included works from the mid 20th century. Harrod regularly contributes to The Burlington Magazine, The Guardian, Crafts, Prospect and The Literary Review. Along with Glenn Adamson and Edward S. Cooke, she co-founded The Journal of Modern Craft. Her latest books are The Real Thing: essays on making in the modern world (Hyphen Press, 2015), Leonard Rosoman (Royal Academy, 2016), Craft (Whitechapel Gallery, 2018 (part of the series Documents of Contemporary Art)) and Humankind: Ruskin Spear, class, culture and art in 20th century Britain (Thames & Hudson and Francis Bacon Estate, 2022).

Harrod also meets the ceramist Torbjørn Kvasbø in the seminar Art and academia, which takes place the day before, on Friday 15th of September. The seminar is a collaboration with the University of Oslo's art collection and takes place in Domus Bibliotheca at the University of Oslo. Read more about the seminar and about registration here.