Søren West is best known for his monu­­ment­al de­­cor­at­ions, in publ­ic spac­es as well as publ­ic in­ter­iors, frequently made in nord­ic gran­ite. He is deep­ly in­ter­est­ed in Sigur­jón Ólafs­son‘s work and sel­ec­ted sculptures from his col­lect­ion to stand in dia­log with his skulp­tur­es in this ex­hibit­ion. In a short essay in the ex­hibit­ion cata­log­ue, he says that dur­ing the pre­par­at­ion for this ex­hi­bit­ion he stud­ied the bulk of Ólafs­son‘s work and has felt a frat­ernal con­nect­ion with this 55 years older col­league, whom he never met.

Søren West was born in 1963 in Copen­hagen. 1983−1988 he stud­ied at the Aca­demy of Fine Arts Odense and furthered his studies at the Studio Cors­anini in Carrara, Italy. Since 1995 he has liv­ed and work­ed in Ege­skov Mølle in Fyn, Den­mark. He is a Memb­er of the Art­ists' As­sociat­ion Den­mark, the Dan­ish Sculp­tors So­ciety and the work­shop Gæste­atel­ier Holluf­gaard in Odense. He has given lect­ures and cours­es at many Danish schools and a variety of high schools. He was the lead­er of the sculp­ture insti­tute at Svend­borg Art School, in 1992−1996 and 2000−2001. Since 1986 he has held num­er­ous ex­hibit­ions and sculp­ture projects in Denmark and abroad.

Søren West mainly works with gran­ite and marble, fre­quent­ly com­bined with bronze, steel, or wood. His works explore aesth­etic and dyna­mic state­ments in re­lat­ion of bal­ance, dist­ance and contr­ast between and within the mat­eri­als and surfaces used.