The academy is run by me and my colleague Kelvin Birk, whom I met at Cockpit Yard, where my studio is located. Both Kelvin and I stepped outside the mainstream after receiving excellent goldsmithing training in Germany. This spirit is exactly what we want to instill in our school. On the one hand, a good technical foundation, and on the other hand, the courage to experiment.

Studying under Professor Karen Pontoppidan was amazing. She did not hold me back when I experimented with materials such as oil that are normally not associated with jewellery and metal design. In fact, it was her recommendation that led me to win the two most prestigious university graduate awards.

Electroforming is a technique that you will often see in my work. To describe it in simple words, a non-conductive object such as a bone or dried plant piece is coated with conductive material and prepared in a way that allows them to be thickly coated with metal.

What most intrigues me is innovation and science fiction, as well as thinking about life in the future. My work is also certainly inspired and influenced by environmental issues. Regarding the depletion of natural resources, I often think about what life will be like in 200 years. In my work Aquatopia, for example, I developed objects that future generations can use to preserve and utilise water more efficiently.