Stone Carving
The workshop offers an introduction to working with stone, with a focus on basic techniques. Participants will get a sense of what it’s like to work with different types of stone and try out various tools, including hammers, chisels and angle grinders fitted with different types of blades. In addition, participants will be introduced to other tools used in stone carving, such as pneumatic hammers and die grinders, although these will not be used during the workshop. The aim is to help participants get started with shaping stone on their own.
The workshop takes place outside Odense on the island of Funen, at the Tarup-Davinde nature reserve – a former gravel pit that has since been transformed into a lush natural landscape. Over the course of the five-day workshop, participants will take part in a stone sensing workshop led by nature educator Isabel Ebbesen, share a communal meal with local residents and attend a small closing event. See the programme below for further details.
Participants will sleep in the site’s art shelters designed by the artist collective N55, with access to toilet facilities and an outdoor kitchen at the Meeting Place – an award-winning conversion of a former country estate. Swimming is also possible at the nearby lake.
You sleep outdoors in shelters — please see photos of the shelter site. Shopping options within 2 km from the shelter site.
Remember to bring: Sleeping bag, sleeping pad, torch, water bottle, warm clothing, rain gear, mosquito repellent, suitable footwear.
Freja Lundrup (b. 1990) lives and works on Funen. She is a graduate of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and the Jutland Art Academy in Aarhus (2013–2018). Lundrup’s artistic practice centres on material responses, with the body as a starting point and a particular focus on influence and manipulation. Through sculptural investigations, she explores the relationship between inner and outer states, seeking to give form to the invisible: what is sensed, experienced and physically felt.
She works with materials such as stone, wood, fibre-reinforced concrete and silicone. In the attempt to embody an inner body, stone seems the ideal medium: it mirrors the body. Stone and body are seen as analogous masses, each shaped by their environments. Both bear traces of what they have been exposed to. Nothing leaves the mass.
Learning objectives
To provide students with a basic practical understanding of working with stone as an artistic medium, including knowledge of materials and tools.
Work assessment
The student must participate in at least 80% of group teaching sessions and the associated programme, and produce an outcome from the exercises or a sketch in connection with the workshop.