Astrid Sleire: Selected works, 2025-2026
Folded Constructions, 2026
Astrid Sleire’s works highlight the constructed and assembled – architectural qualities. In the exhibition Folded Constructions, Astrid Sleire explores the movements of the material and how the shape can create a space for new possibilities. She aims to strike a balance between construction and expression, between the structural and the immediate.
The clay is rolled out into thin sheets and then folded and joined together into zigzag-like structures. Based on the natural colour of the clay, Sleire constructs colour shades through layers of underglaze. Colour patches and stripes move across the object, forming in a pattern that may both reveal and conceal, highlight and camouflage.
Sleire’s works balance at the tipping point between stable and unsettled – between clarity and visual disruptions that invite new interpretations.
Omriss (Outline), 2026
Through an exploratory practice, Astrid Sleire investigates the plastic potential of clay by experimenting with different ways of constructing forms. Thin slabs of clay are sculpted between her hands and joined together into constructions that exist at the tipping point between stable form and collapse. The surfaces of the sculptures are worked through the application of thin layers of glaze that are gradually built up in interaction with repeated firings. By applying the underglaze at the final stage, she achieves the matte surface characteristic of her works. The sculptures appear as poetic, wordless sentences; immediate in expression, yet also open to interpretation.
Folded Constructions – Masked and Rust, 2025
Du Verden. Prelude to something green, 2024-2025
Captions
- Folded Constructions (2025). Red fired clay, glaze, underglaze. Size: Left: 54x27x18 cm. Right: 55,5x35x23cm. Photos: Øystein Klakegg
- Folded Constructions (2025). Detail. Red fired clay, glaze, underglaze. Photos: Øystein Klakegg
- Installation photo from the exhibition Folded Constructions (2026) at Gallery Peach Corner, Copenhagen. Photos: Ole Akhøj
- Folded Constructions (2025). Red clay with blue/purple, orange, underglaze stripes. Size approx H27 cm. Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum
- Folded Constructions (2025). Red clay with blue/purple, orange, underglaze stripes. Size approx. H27 cm. Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum
- Folded Constructions (2025). Red clay with blue/purple, orange, underglaze stripes. Size approx.H27 cm. Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum
- Folded Constructions (2025). Red clay with blue/purple, orange, underglaze stripes. Size approx.H27 cm. Photo: Bjarte Bjørkum
- Omriss / Outline, (2026). Section of a series consisting of 27 pieces. Red fired clay, glaze, underglaze. Variable size, approx. H15 cm. Photos: Øystein Klakegg
- Masked Constructions (2025). Red fired clay, series consisting of 5 pieces, size all together H28xB175xD60 cm. Photos:: Øystein Klakegg
- Folded Constructions – Rust (2025). Red fired clay, consists of 3 pieces. Size approx. H26 cm. Photos: Bjarte Bjørkum
- Du verden (2024-25). Section of a series of five pieces. Black fired clay, glaze, underglaze. Variable size, highest approx. 40 cm. Photos: Øystein Klakegg
- Du verden (2024-25). One piece in a series of five pieces. Black fired clay, glaze, underglaze. Approx. H 38 cm. Photos: Helge Hansen
