Lise Ring

In the 1950s, she played the banjo at the Cap Horn bar in Nyhavn, creating herbal tea mugs with portraits of those in the band.

From 1977 to 1985, she spent a lengthy period in Italy where in 1981 she headed the Scandinavian cultural association Circolo Scandinavo.

[1] Ring has worked with stone, concrete, wood and silver, creating both small and large sculptures of women, children and animals in a naturalistic yet personal design language.

Cut in a rounded square of sandstone, the work conveys a sense of organic life, typical of her human and animal sculptures.

Thanks to a scholarship from Queen Ingrid's Roman Foundation, in 1977 she went to Italy where she furthered her studies at the Vanucci Academy in Perugia.