Oranda-e (met Hollandse ogen)


Kunstcentrum Haagweg 4, Leiden
April 3- May 3.
Within the celebrations of the ‘Japan year’ initiated by the Sieboldhuis, concerning 400 years trade relations between the Dutch VOC and Japan, the art gallery of Art Centre Haagweg 4, asked 30 artists to make / fill in a folding screen, concerning the question, does my work present space or does take my work space?
The folding screen was used to divide and influence the space in the traditional Japanese house.
The exhibition has been opened from April 3 to May 3 .
Opening time; Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoon from 13.00 till 17.00.






Knitted worlds


Audax Textielmuseum, Tilburg, March 14 - June 14.
I'm very proud to be part of the show 'Knitted Wolrds' in the Audax Textielmuseum in Tilburg.
Participant artists are: Anne Reijse, Annette Streyl, Bauke Knottnerus, Christien Meindertsma, Chrystl Rijkeboer, Daniera ter Haar, Dave Cole, Desirée de Baar, Elaine Reicheck, Greetje van Tiem, Heidi Kennedy Skjerve, Iris Eichenberg, Jana Walliser, Janneke Hooymans, Jayne Parker, Jimini Hignett, Karin Marseille, Kelly Jenkins, Maria Blaisse, Maria Roosen, Nadine Sterk, Nanna van Blaaderen, Petra Vonk, Rosemarie Trockel, Yvonne Laurysen and Erik Mantel. Currated by: Suzan Rüsseler.

My contributions in this show are the works; Avatar (five knitted balaclavas) and 3 photos from the Avatar series.

Some of my personal favourites are; Easter Lilies ( I.R.A. Provisionals/ Home Rule) by Elaine Reichek, VS., Gift for Dr. Matlock by Jimini Hignett (GB/NL) and Zonnebloemen by Maria Roozen (NL).

During the show this blog will be in the air. http://knittedworlds.blogspot.com/

http://www.textielmuseum.nl/textielmuseum/agenda.html?agid=483




‘If walls could speak’


The 'folding screen is ready.




The 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition - Hawaii.


March 1 - April 9, 2009
Initial exhibition of The 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition. Exactly 141 small sculptures from around the world show how artists have handled the challenges of space and scale dictated by the size of an ordinary shoebox. An invitation-only exhibition, this triennial has attracted a large number of well-known artists from Hawaii, the U.S. mainland, Australia, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Norway, People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, The Netherlands, and United Kingdom.
http://www.hawaii.edu/artgallery/




More felt testing


I want to make felt that thin, you can see through and will be strong enough to hang into the folding screen. And now i have to decide if there are 'ghosts' comming out of my screen. My tests feel very kitsch. So I'm thinking to make just the hairfelt fabric, which looks very cool but more design that visual art.




Oranda -e (met Hollandse ogen)


Exhibition 'Japan' in april at galery 'Kunstcentrum Haagweg 4' in Leiden.
30 Artist will work with a 'folding screen' or byobu, solving the question " Does my work present space or does my work take space?"
'If walls could speak'
This is my plan (roughly) for my screen. I started to experiment with making felt again. I try to make big, but very transparant felt, which has 3 dimentional pieces coming out of it. The screen will be inhabited by 'gosts' which present stories about it's history.





Opening Button project Schielandhuis Rotterdam


Januari 16 - March 1
Buttons & Imago: Badges to Fashion is organized by '010 sieraad.
Silvia-B, Simone van Bakel, Ralph Bakker, Caro Bartling, Ela Bauer, Dinie Besems, Brech, Paul van Brunschot, Brigit Daamen, Cathelijne Engelkes, Willemijn Faber, Arianne van der Gaag, Machteld van Joolingen, Karin Kortenhorst, Petra Laaper, Felieke van der Leest, Nicolette Pot, Chrystl Rijkenboer, Karin Seufert, Wim Schermer, Susanne Schmitt, Jan Willem van der Schoot, Startel, Francis Willemstijn, Esther Zitman.
Some of the buttons.......button1: Chrystl Rijkeboer, 2: Petra Laaper, 3: Nicolette Pot, 4: Brigit Daamen, 5: Arianne van der Gaag




‘Home sweet home’ in salon exhibition de Vishal, Haarlem.


De Vishal celebrates it's 15th anniversary with a kind of salon show.
From January 11- January 25.




‘Home sweet home’


The first frames 'Home sweet home' are ready.




Body sound - Körperklänge


Performance by Theater Osnabrück, during the exhibition 'Kunstkörperlich-Körperkünstlich'.

Photos by Michael Dropmann.




‘Home sweet home’


Ideas for a new work called "Home sweet home'.



Exhibition ‘Tijd slijt’ Brederode finished.





Family tree - Hawaii shoebox 2009


My work for the 'Hawaii shoebox' exhibition is ready and will be send of today.




Kunstlijn 2008 - 2


ArtUnit#2.



Kunstlijn 2008


October 31 and November 1&2 is the annual art-weekend in Haarlem.
Me and Sandra (from ArtUnit) will present 'Home Made', Art&Coffee, at our location ArtUnit#2. The weather is traditional very cold and wet this weekend, so we are open for Art, a nice cup of coffee and home made apple pie! I will try to visit a few open studio's myself. I have to visit Vesna Zuuring. She made a photo project about artists in Haarlem. I was one of the artists myself. http://www.haarlemsekunstenaars.nl/ en www.vesnainbeeld.nl




Hawaii Shoebox-2


The smallest knitwear I ever made.



Button project ‘010 Sieraad’


‘Buttons’ is a new project in progress of art group ‘010 Sieraad’. It will grow to be a worldwide show with more the one thousand buttons. The ‘pilot show’ will be in the historical museum of Rotterdam; het Schielandhuis. For this show approx. 30 artists; jewel makers, visual artist, designers, writers and philosophers, will devise and create a button.I am invited to be one of these artists. My idea was 'waiting in a drawer' for years all ready and with the concept of a button all pieces felt together. I wanted to create ‘mourning jewels’, based on the ones made with human hair in the Victorian time, for a long time. We were supposed to make three buttons.
I never had so many difficulties making a work, as with this project. The idea and content of my buttons were made this summer all ready, but finishing the 'real button' took a lot of time and effort. I tried all kind of buttons, from glass until plastic again. I decided that my buttons would be made from a metal back and a plastic front, as much like the 'original' buttons we all know.

No.1: I embroidered a part of the portrait of my grandmother, as a loving memory of her. Her big bun, surrounded with a braid were typical for her looks.
No. 2: I made a portrait button of- and with the hair of Fritszke, our cat, who died a year ago.
No. 3: I designed a button as one I would like to be remembered myself. I used my fingerprint as a basis. Normal we talk about the footprint we leave on this planet, I rather leave a fingerprint, which is more positive in my point of view. I see a footprint for what we destroy on this planet and a fingerprint for what we create. I embroidered my fingerprint with my own hair on a background of name labels, which I use to 'sign' my work with.





10th Shoebox Hawaii 2009


I'm selected for the 10th Shoebox exhibition in Hawaii. This is my idea. I will make a box which opens at all sides. Inside the box will be the work 'Family tree', in the smallest version you can imagine.




Osnabrück -2


'Sisters' is placed in the church now and the 'Haarlem bunch'



Opening exhibition Dominikanerkirche Osnabrück

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