Profile of Marianne Steenholdt Bork

Marianne is particularly well known for her sumptuously exotic lion creatures, decorated in warm colours and with gold that shines in the dark.  Elegance, expressiveness and a touch of the primitive - these are all attributes that can be found in the elaborately decorated porcelain.  She is inspired by nature and the stories and pictures that she encounters on her journeys.

Marianne graduated as a ceramicist in 1988 from the College of Fine Art in Kolding where she regularly returns as a visiting lecturer.  Since 1990 she has had her own studio called Filihankat, where she creates her fantastical, highly decorated porcelain figures.  Her work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally.  Marianne has received the prestigious Flectcher Challenge Award of New Zealand as well as the acclaimed Danish Kunsthaandvaerkerprisen of 1879.