About | Bente Brekke

Workshop and Gallery address:

K11

Korsholmveien 11

3148 Tjøme

Norway

instagram: @bentebrekke

Worked with glass since 2000

Education:

General and Special Teaching Education, Norway
Arts and Craft, Design and Idea Development, Print and Photography.

2019 MA in Glass and Ceramics, University of Sunderland, UK

Member of :
The Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts (Norske Kunsthåndverkere)

Norwegian Glass Artists (Norske Glasskunstnere)
CGS, Contemporary Glass Society, UK

Exhibitions :

2005 Galleri DS Foto, Bremanger

2007 Vårsøgutstiller, Vårsøghelga, Surnadal (Festival Exhibitor)

2007 Øvre Verket, Sommer Exhibition.

2008 "Mangfold", Norges Husflidslag, Landsstevne

2014 "Put a bird on it", Hvasser.

and several smaller and bigger art fairs and exhibitions between 2001 and 2014.

No workshop between 2014 - 2020.

2022 Våre Kunstdager, Gallery Brown, Sandefjord, Norway

2023 “Small But Magnificent” – Online exhibition, CGS, UK

2025, Kunstlåven, Seljord, The Gallery Shop, The Norwegian Association for Craft Artists, 50 years.

2026, 31 January – 31 July, “The Graduates”, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK.

Scholarships:

2019 DOSH - Futures Fund - North Lands Creative

2019 DOSH - Futures Fund - The British Glass Biennale and Master Class.

Artist statement:

My work is inspired by nature and humanity and

'Too Close' is an ongoing and never ending work. The impossibility of fully

understand meanings, connections, and consequences

in our relationship.

Glass is a fascinating material that can be shaped in many directions,

from the fragile, beautiful, and alluring

to the rough, dangerous, and impenetrable. I am driven by its possibilities and challenges.

I explore ideas and techniques and I find beauty in the accidental and imperfect.

I hope to create works that invite reflection.

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"I grew up, left and was away for many years.

Then I rediscovered the smell of seaweed

and moved back to the sea."

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