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Amalie Rugård Jensen
Oslo
Amalie Rugård Jensen is a visual artist with a background in conservation and printmaking. Her practice is based on a love for telling stories and an interest in how fragments and collections can carry a narrative without giving away everything. She works with photography, text, drawing and printing techniques such as lithography to explore subjects related to ecology, poetry, and speculative narratives. Her work is inspired by natural history collections, expeditions into the unknown, obscure sciences and is an attempt to get closer to all that is shimmering and strange in this world.
Publications
Til alt som blomstrer (working title) (2025/2026)
A celebration of everything that grows in the dark, and emerges into the light. The blind sprouts, the thorny brambles, all the bewildering and entangled mess of growing and living.
The original book is a one of a kind artist book with watercolour and oil pastel illustrations. A risoprinted booklet version of the publication will be presented at Kunstbok Oslo as well.
Damkarussen taler (2025)
Damkarussen taler is a handprinted, handbound artist book in an edition of 3, containing a monologue from the Crucian carp, a small fish capable of surviving difficult conditions in strange ways. A fish we might learn something from. The illustrations are printed with lithography and the text is letterpress printed.
Untitled (den hvide hest) (2025)
A small fairytale about nøkken. Originally watercolour illustrated, laserjet printed and handbound leporello style with a linocut cover.
Tab og glemsel i permafrostens opbrud (working title) (2026)
Will be released at Kunstbok Oslo!
This project, in the form of a limited edition artist book, explores lithography based on acetone-transferred photocopier prints, a technique with a distinct expression that mimics a process of decomposition. The permafrost in Svalbard has contributed to the preservation of objects that would otherwise easily decompose, but this is changing rapidly. This book explores how the aesthetic qualities of acetone-transferred lithographs can be used to convey a story of deterioration and loss in an area of the world that is drastically affected by climate change.
Bregnernes Ankomst (2021)
Bregnernes Ankomst is a handbound artist book containing a text written by the ferns of Nordmarka. Will be presented alongside a selection of letterpress printed poetry.
