Category: works

Untitled (Staddle Stone Series) 2016,

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Ceramics, Glass, Plastic, 100x66 cm

In this project I was using elements of cinema production spaces like the materiality of props and the use of colors to make sculptures that refer to statuary in carefully constructed garden spaces.

There are different ways to look at parks and different opinions on what parks could look like.

Sometimes there are benches where people read their newspaper, where you can find artificial pools of water and banisters with a bark relief in them, where everything is very well maintained and quite formal. Other times parks are more wild with bushes and grass where people lay down on.

As with garden spaces, the space of commercials also play with a manipulated natural appearance. The breaking sound of a dark magnum ice-cream between the lips is carefully constructed and mixed. Although the space of the movie is not a place we can enter nor sit in, but a projection of ourselves into it.

Reclining Nude (IIII) 2015

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Clay, Cotten Cord, Leather, Metal, Detail

The Reclining Nude series is made in collaboration with Mila Lanfermeijer. Techniques of knotting and basket making are used to create hanging sculptures that refer to the home and the body.

Macrame gained immense popularity during the 1970’s as a means to make wall hangings, articles of clothing and other furnishings. Inspired by references from this era the Reclining Nudes series explores the possibility of macramé to hold forms. Introduced into England at the court of Mary II in the late 17th century. The queen herself taught the art of macramé to her ladies-in-waiting. Sparked by the idea of ‘a lady in waiting’ we became interested in the depiction of the hanging and resting female body in painting as well as the comparison of the female body to the household form of the vase.

To create the sculptures a temporary basket was created from rope, by pressing the clay against this surface baskets or vase like forms are made. Before the clay has completely dried the rope is pulled out, making the wet form collapse.

For the exhibitions AIR and Object Rotterdam the Reclining Nudes series was shown in combination with the work Sleeping with Oda.

A resting clay form is presented on a hand painted blanket. The blanket is part of a collection of blankets that are inspired by the ‘quilts of gee’s bend’. The composition of these quilts is more often associated with the inventiveness and power of the leading 20th-century abstract painters than with textile-making.

Untitled 2014,

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Graduationshow, Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, Installation View

During my last year at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy I became interested in realism in semiotics. Realism is semiotically seen as a pragmatical relationship between a sign and the reverent of the text. The realistic effect is the fading difference between a sign (which is connected to a meaning) and the reverent (which is made up by a text). The distance between a reality and its reverent made up out of signs is at the same time invisible or not there.

I’m interested in how shapes evolve from basic principles. These principles are bound up with the types of material and the way they are worked. The hand, the machine and the mold are three basic tools for generating shape.

How can a shape cut-out of a wooden plate become an integral part of the material it was cut-out of? By creating a negative space inside the material, the opportunity for the material to represent or become a scale model for an absent shape opens up.

In ceramics the coil building technique is one of the oldest ways to shape clay, working in an upward movement, from the bottom to the top.  When I think of ceramics I mostly think of pots, table ware and vases. The material and its signification, the material as embodiment of a symbolic archetype is something I tried to work and play with.

Hangers 2013,

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Wood, Ceramics, Glass, Color Prints, Dimensions Variable

During my time as an exchange student at the St Lucas art school in Gent I made a work called ‘Hangers’. It is a photographic series of sculpted hangers in the local Van Eyck swimming pool.

With these series of photographs I made a new sculpture showing and combining the photographs in a trolley made out of wood.

Only parts of the photographic scenes are visible in this sculpture. Some sculptures used in the photographs are also on display.

The Fall 2012,

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Beyond Babylon, Oude Kerk Amsterdam, Installation View, 240 x 151 cm

This installation was the result of a fascination with the transitory nature of light and how light can create shape within a limited period of time. It is partly made in my former studio (an ex-school building) then moved and finished in the building of the Old Church where the work was on display.