Lotte Westphael studied at the Ceramics and Glass Department of Kolding School of Art and Design between 1988 and 1993. In addition to this, she studied in several Japanese ceramic workshops. Westphael debuted her work at Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition in 2016, and received the Arts and Crafts Prize of 1879, Hetsch Medal the same year.
She has been awarded the Danmarks Nationalbank’s Jubilee Foundation grant for her entire body of works. The foundation writes : « In [her] tireless work with highly refined, poetic and fine-tuned ceramic vessels, [Lotte Westphael has] produced works with a balance that is second to one. It is strictly geometric and complex patterns, which are built up by a gentle color palette that sets the dreams in motion - it is like looking at the sky and the clouds drifting by, while at the same time you are firmly grounded on an earth that could have been crafted in marble. »
Lotte Westphael’s work has recently been acquired by Designmuseum Danmark and she has exhibited throughout Europe and the United States., including the American Museum of Ceramic Art, USA; the Danish Cultural Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia; Kagoshima Museum, Japan; Hjorths Museum, Denmark; Albrechtsburg Meissen, Germany; Magnelli Vallauris Museum, France; Sofienholm, Denmark; Galerie Maria Wettergren, Paris, France; Design Miami Basel, Switzerland; PAD London, England; TEFAF Maastricht, The Netherlands; 5th Triennale of Kogei in Kanazawa at 21st Centry Museum of Art, Japan and European Prize of Applied Arts, Belgium.