Mall Valk

Mall Valk was an Estonian ceramist.

Early life and education

Mall Valk was born in Ühtri, Estonia as the daughter of the teachers Julius Sooster and Elvi Sooster. When she was six years old, her father was executed by the NKVD in Irkutsk. In 1961, she graduated from the State Estonian SSR">Art Institute of the Estonian SSR.

Career

In the 1960s and 1970s, Valk created humorous and sometimes grotesque plastic works based on situations and puns in ceramic. She was one of the ceramists that executed a panel in the Tallinn University [Academic Library|Central Library of the Estonian Academy of Sciences] in 1964 based on a design by Lepo Mikko. She died of lung cancer in Tallinn in 1976.

Family

Mall Valk was the cousin of the painter Ülo Sooster. She was married to the caricaturist and politician Heinz Valk.

Works

1962: Jane Eyre
1967: Isa silmaterad
1967: Malekuningas
1970: Pärlikukk
1970: ''Pärlikana''