Marthe Elise Stramrud (b. 1984, Kristiansand) lives and works in Oslo. She graduated with an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo in 2018 and a BFA from the Bergen Academy of the Arts in 2011. Stramrud has a formal background from the visual arts and has long distinguished herself as a photographer, but has in recent years continued her fascination with object and perception to produce some of the most exciting and sought-after ceramic works in Norway. She is interested in the meeting between silhouettes, backgrounds, flatness and form - between art objects and objects of use and how the boundaries between these can be opened and moved.