During the spring and summer 2018, I was AIR at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
I worked from the studio in the ceramic department at the museum for 6 months creating a body of work inspired by French Renaissance Potter Bernard Palissy.

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During her residency at the V&A Rasmussen will respond to works by the 16th century French Potter Bernard Palissy and the later majolica-ware produced by factories and individual Potters around Europe. A kinship is formed in their common love for plants and animals and the exploration of ceramic still life scenes. Inspired by Palissy’s life-cast technique of lifting moulds from plants and dead animals and using the casts to create elaborate narrative scenes, Rasmussen will experiment with new methods of making using lost ceramic techniques picked up from objects in the collection and archives. Field studies will be done in the Museum and the National Art Library and inspired hereby Rasmussen will make ceramic interpretations of insects, animals and plants. In collaboration with her partner Photographer Sylvain Deleu, these objects are photographed and reworked digitally to form two-dimensional patterns and pictures as a form of ceramic photographic Trompe l’oeil then to be printed onto paper, digitally printed/woven fabric or ceramic tiles.

Another focal point of the residency will be “The Grotto”. Palissy designed and fabricated architectural elements for two grottoes during his lifetime, only fragments remain showing ruffled rock-like surfaces with plants, reptiles and insects. With Palissy as muse, Rasmussen will explore the idea of the Renaissance grotto and bring “La Grotte Rustique” into the 21st century.

This residency is in partnership with the Danish Arts Foundation.