Inger Rokkjaer

Inger Rokkjaer was a Danish ceramist. She was educated at the Jutland Art Academy from 1965 to 1970, where she was taught by for example Gutte Eriksen. She started her first workshop in 1969. Later, she returned to the academy as a teacher between 1982 and 1986. Inger Rokkjaer fired her production using the Japanese raku technique. The forms were often restrained and simple, many times with lids, sometimes more robust. The surfaces and glazes rich in variation of textures and hues. Rokkjaer has been mentioned as one of the foremost practitioners of contemporary raku. Inger Rokkjaer is represented in several museum collections, including the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.