Malene Knudsen is a Danish artist based in Copenhagen. She has a formal background in architecture from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark and has previously worked in the fields of design and graphic design.
She started working with ceramics in 2018 and established her studio in 2020.
Raw clay traditionally formed in soft organic shapes transformed into modern ceramics. Each piece is carefully created by hand with precision, personality and formed by hand using a coiling technique and shaped into soft organic forms inspired by body and nature.
The types of stoneware used naturally fires to warm tones of cream, sand, light brown, brown and black, only with addition of coarse-grained fire sand and crushed bricks for a raw and textured finish.
The roughness varies in the different types of used stoneware for an individual expression.