‘The pottery of Inger Rokkjaer is, for the most part, undecorated. Her vessels range from architectonic forms of twentieth-century Danish design to works with an amazing affinity to mediaeval ceramics. The surfaces of her ware result from her use of the Raku technique in firing her pieces. The technique can only be controlled to a certain degree and she has learned to trust the balance to the fire. It has served her well. The crazing and pitting caused by the dramatic rapid cooling in the Raku process is an integral part of her vessels and contributes to the subtlety of her oeuvre.’ Text by William Hull

Born in 1934, Inger Rokkjaer studied at the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, Århus, from 1965 to 1970, where one of her tutors was Gutte Eriksen. She set up her own workshop in 1969, later returning to the Academy to teach from 1982 to 1986.  Inger's work was introduced to the gallery by Rupert Spira in 2006 and we exhibited her work as part of a mixed exhibition called Danish Ceramics in 2008.