Tora Urup: In Colours and Layers
Danish glass artist Tora Urup’s work questions conventional understanding of how material reacts.
Tora Urup is a Danish independent glass designer and artist working with different manufacturers, individual craftsmen and factories in the Czech Republic and Japan. Channelling an intimate approach, she focuses on how we might experience and perceive common objects anew, both as functional and individual pieces. Her glass pieces could be described as ‘visual interpretations of the known objects.’
Urup exploits the structure, colour and thickness of glass to produce a body of work that questions our conventional understanding of how this material reacts. Her pieces are often shown at Galerie Maria Wettergren in Paris, France. She is also the co-founder of Butik for Borddækning, a gallery and shop specialized in tableware in Copenhagen, Denmark. •
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Main imageTora Urup: Clear Cylinder with Floating Cooper Bowl.
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