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Marit Tingleff is one of Norway's greatest contemporary ceramic artists. Often working on a large if not monumental scale, she takes ordinary, domestic items - such as platters and chargers - and elevates them into powerful, sculptural objects. As the curator Sarah Griffin has written:

Marit Tingleff's plate forms are a tribute to the traditions of the design and decoration of ceramics, but their monumental proportions remove them from the realm of function, and conventional making processes. Press-moulded with her feet, these "platters" were suspended vertically on pulleys …