Jennie Andersson

Jennie is a craft artist connected to the Craft Center, trained in Denmark, and living and working in Malmö.

She works with everyday materials, exploring their functions and qualities, and she rediscovers them in new contexts. In this case, it's about mirror glass and industrial offcuts. The symbolism and possibilities of mirror glass are recurring themes in her work. Through the reflections in the glass and the constant changes of light and dark, you see your surroundings in a different way over and over again.

Jennie never sketches, instead she works directly with the material and makes new decisions along the way.
"For me, it's an interaction between thought and action, a search for something that gives meaning."

The aluminum profile in Candlestick 4 is leftover material from a manufacturer of store interiors, originally found at a scrapyard outside Trelleborg. The idea came while Jennie was working on an installation and suddenly noticed that the hole in the profile was perfect for a candle.

The brooch emerged from a larger wall sculpture, Noiseless, where a large number of metal chains flow from a mirror formation in an almost endless way – a movement she also wanted to capture in the small format.