Tina Tramp

Danish Ceramic Artist based south of Copenhagen. Works are large (unika) oneofakind organic sculptural vessels.

MENTION

The classic definition of art, that it is “a piece of reality seen through an artist’s temperament” fits exactly on Tina Tramps works. She observes she interprets and she conveys her love of life, form and nature. She sets her subjectivity in motion while she is creating what she senses in the moment. For it is basically the only reliable guide, as a human being and an artist she can use.

It is the danish author Nørretranders who once described consciousness as the top small tip of all the sensations and impressions flowing through man. Our senses and what they receive, is far larger and more comprehensive than our consciousness can ever manage to record, comprehend and process. But the many influences become layers in our bodily system and leaves tracks.

Therefore Tina Tramps life in close symbiosis with the sea, rocked shores and the forestground, obviously has great influence on her work. Perhaps we could – with the french writer Antoine De Saint-Exupery say – “Only with the heart can one see. The essential is invisible to the eye”. The quotation fits well with Tina Tramps artistic universe, she continually tries to portray, transform and vizualize the energy of everything in the unseen, all the hidden and secre...

Selected exhibitions & representation:

NOMA Copenhagen (2019)
Himmerland Kunstmuseum – Solo (2014)
Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum – (2012)
Museum Sønderjylland – Grænseudstillingen – Gruppe (2012)
Danmarks Nationalbank – Solo (2009 & 2010)
Nordisk Ministerråd – Solo (2011)
Sophienholm – The Cobra Room – Solo (2010)
Børsen – Solo (2011)
Raschs Pakhus, Bornholm – Solo (2010)
Sophienberg – Solo (2009)
Toldboden Kerteminde – Solo (2013)
Svenske Villa – Gruppe (2006)