Danish visual artist Svend-Allan Sørensens (b. 1975) practice is deeply rooted in the intersection of visual art and hunting culture. Based in Tovstrup, Jutland, he works primarily with printmaking, using linocut, woodcut, etchings and lithography to create images that reflect on nature, animals, and the human relationship to the wild.
Hunting is not only a theme in Sørensen’s work but also part of his lived experience, shaping both his subject matter and artistic philosophy. His prints frequently depict birds, hunting tools, and symbolic motifs drawn from Nordic hunting traditions. By placing hunting imagery within the context of contemporary graphic art, Sørensen raises questions about tradition, ethics, and our connection to nature. For him, hunting is not only a motif but also a way of seeing: attentive, patient, and precise—qualities that resonate directly with the discipline of printmaking itself. He creates a poetic dialogue between culture and nature, tradition and modernity, silence and the gunshot echo.
Sørensen has exhibited widely in Denmark and abroad, and his graphic works are represented in both private and public collections.
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Statement from the jury:
"Svend-Allan Sørensen was born in 1975 and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Odense. He is represented at the National Arts Fund, Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, the ARoS Art Museum in Aarhus and several other Danish collections. He currently lives and works in Odense.
Svend-Allan Sørensen has been called a 'popular modernist'. A traditional graphic artist, he uses nature, especially birds, as a motif, but adds new, personal features both in the way he uses technology and in the content he chooses. It is as important to him to give associative descriptions of nature and birds as it is to depict them: Sørensen’s work contains many words as engraved images, words that represent both humorous and everyday philosophical statements. He moves effortlessly between established graphic techniques, celebrating craftsmanship while adding an ecologically romantic view of nature that is truly contemporary."
