Marit Tingleff

Marit Tingleff is one of Nor­way’s most celebrated contemporary ceramic artists. Initially studying at the National College of Art and Design, Bergen, she went on to become Pro­fes­sor and Head of Ce­ram­ics at Oslo Na­tional Acad­emy of the Arts from 2013 – 2016. Her work is expressive, with strong ornamental features and undulating, organic lines. Taking the landscape of her own daily life as a starting point – referencing nature, land and seascapes and employing a painterly approach – her work possesses an incredible sense of spontaneity, balancing areas of light and dark, pattern and empty space while playing with different ways of mark making.

To create her work, a hand-build body is decorated with slips and glazed with a transparent glaze. A simple, age-old process, she has brought it to a greater level, finding a richness of colour in both the process and in the clay itself as she takes ordinary, everyday objects and elevates them to something more powerful.

Marit Tingleff has exhibited widely and her work is included in a number of major museums including The National Museum/The Museum of Decorative Art, Oslo; Design Museum, Copenhagen and the V&A Museum, London, UK. She has also been awarded several public commissions including work for Norwegian Government Buildings in Oslo and Norway.