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Complementing reality

Helen Clara Hemsley and Mette Charlotte Saabye use their personal experiences, immediate surroundings and international events in their childhood/youth during the 70s and 80s to make jewellery together, bearing witness to their lives in two countries so far away from each other, and the overlaps and connections between them. But also the holes that they […]

Inhale Exhale

Previous slide Next slide Watch video (Balloon) Watch video (Paperbag) Watch video (Bubbles) From the earliest times, breathing has been the sign of life itself for the individual human being. Oxygen creates the body’s sensations and imaginations. The CO2 we exhaled has hardly threatened anyone or anything. As a species, however, man has unfortunately proven […]

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Previous slide Next slide Watch video An invitation to experience the essence of a Danish meal The concept of a meal and how it has the ability to echo life around us forms the common foundation for the group’s reflections, and especially focuses on how a meal can bring people together and bolster their sense […]

Shared Tears

Previous slide Next slide Beyond gender, cultural and geographical boundaries, human beings are connected to the planet and all living things via water. Every day, our bodies expel water when we exhale, perspire, urinate or cry. The body of water contained in this piece of jewellery, possesses the potential to connect us, as mentioned above, […]

Sensory Tales – the sound of togetherness

Previous slide Next slide Sensory Tales is a body of work, made in close collaboration between the two danish jewellery artists, Mette Saabye and Josefine Rønsholt Smith. The works on display are a physical representation of a material dialogue and thought exchange between the two artists throughout a period of two years. On the basis […]

Sensory Tales – the sound of togetherness

Previous slide Next slide Sensory Tales is a body of work, made in close collaboration between the two danish jewellery artists, Mette Saabye and Josefine Rønsholt Smith. The works on display are a physical representation of a material dialogue and thought exchange between the two artists throughout a period of two years. On the basis […]

Bedrock stories

Previous slide Next slide Since 2018, I have traveled with a small group of colleagues to different areas in the Nordic countries, with the aim of studying the origins of the various art and craft traditions and to meet artists and craftspeople with whom we have been able to exchange knowledge. We have investigated traditional […]

Office of Darkness

Previous slide Next slide In 2022, Thorvaldsen’s Museum formed the framework for an artistic research stay, where jewellry artist Mette Saabye and graphic artist Helle Vibeke Jensen investigated and worked with Thorvaldsen’s large collection of antique engraved gemstones, which were on show at the same time in the special exhibition DYREBAR on the museum’s first […]