Night Ships is a retrospective exhibition of Morten Schelde's printmaking across roughly thirty years. Printmaking is a substantial and central part of his artistic output, and he has worked with its many techniques and produced work at some of the country's leading print workshops.
Schelde blends fiction and reality, the familiar and the strange, the safe and the uncanny, into vivid, colour-saturated worlds. He returns to recurring motifs such as empty interiors, stairwells, doors, flying ships, dense forests and architecture with a quiet mysticism and melancholy. Many works carry an understated drama, driven largely by contrasts that set the viewer's imagination working.
