the studio

anne black’s relationship with ceramics began early. as a schoolchild, she apprenticed with a ceramicist — learning clay, tools and kilns long before she saw ceramics as a profession. it planted a clear ambition: to work with clay, and one day to have a studio of her own.

after studying and working from shared studios in copenhagen through the late 1990s, anne established her own studio in copenhagen — on vesterbro — in 2005, a space shaped around handwork, repetition and quiet concentration. it remains the framework for her work today.

the first hand-thrown tealight holders set a direction: restrained forms, soft glaze colours and an insistence on tactility. the objects were modest, but the method was precise — and it has remained unchanged.

as demand grew, a workshop collaboration was established in vietnam. hand throwing was no longer a living practice there and anne reintroduced the craft — training a small team to work to the same standards as in her copenhagen studio. two studios, geographically distant but methodologically aligned: the same process, the same attention to the hand.

for a closer look at the long-term workshop collaboration in vietnam, see craftsmanship.