Anne Fløche was born in 1952 in Denmark. She studied at the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts. For over forty years, Anne Floche has been shaping clay with rigor and sensitivity. She experiments with different clays, engobes, and textures, perfecting them to create pieces fired in one go at 1100°C. Over time, she has established herself as a unique figure on the contemporary scene, driven by a constant search for sobriety, texture, and light. A specialist in Terra Sigillata, inherited from Roman traditions, she has made it the terrain of her personal plastic exploration. This fine ceramic, characterized by a brilliant red engobe and firing in an oxidizing atmosphere, offers her a rich medium to reinterpret ancestral know-how with contemporary sensibility. Her pieces—panels, sculptures, and wall forms—draw on the world's architecture, both natural and built, and on a grammar of elementary signs: circles, lines, dots, and sober pigments. Anne also draws inspiration from geology, astronomy, natural elements, and particle physics. Influenced by her extensive travels and an openness to world cultures, her work has been exhibited internationally, notably at Copenhagen Contemporary and the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2024, she received the Telmaniey Honorary Prize, recognizing a body of work that is at once demanding, poetic, and deeply embodied.
