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Our STUDIOS will be closed from Monday 22nd September and will be reopening at 9am Friday 26th September for venue transformation. You will not be able to access our spaces during this time. Monthly Resident Passes will be credited for the closed days. Flexi8 passes will continue to have their eight day passes. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause - please do not book on these days.

Em Bentzen Kraft

Em Bentzen Kraft is a multimedia artist with a degree in Ceramic Design from Central Saint Martins. Her work often focuses on themes of family history and personal archives. She used ceramics, natural materials, poetry, soundscapes and projections in her work, often building to immersive installations.

Q&A

Specialism:

I would always say I specialise in ceramics due to my degree being in this medium. However, a lot of my work tends to be multimedia, using moving image and soundscapes alongside ceramic or clay based work.

Influences:

When it comes to influences I feel that literature such as myths and folk tales are what I rely on to inspire my work. However, when its comes to artists work that have shaped my practice I always come back to Artemisia Gentileschi as a classical icon, William Cobbing and Phoebe Cummings for showing the power of raw clay and Mella Shaw who has a poetic way of presenting politics and meaning through her installations.

MAKE space:

Having taken a break from my practice to train as a nurse, I am so excited to be back in a studio space with other artists around me. I am thrilled to have a space to lay out my work and immerse myself in it again.

What is art for?:

Art for me isn’t really a choice I don’t think. I have tried other things and it just keeps pulling me back in. I like to think of art as purposeful thinking. As a way to catalogue and express our inner world and make sense of the outer one. I use the form of personal archiving in a lot of my work and I think art is a great document for humans, and really anyone can document.

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