I am a Netherlands based multi-disciplinary artist and researcher.
I create large scale multi-media ‘happenings’ that combine figurative painting with performance. These ‘happenings’ explore, through the context of a ‘painted world’, how we emotionally process our pasts, memories, and losses. Costumes, props and sets I create are all constructed of canvas and paint, and the works sometimes become films, presented in an installation format.
I am concerned with social systems and group interactions, particularly dynamics that transgress the boundaries of the human, the object, and the representation. I use memories and my relationships with friendship circles as the backbone of my research, combined with concepts of anthropological theory, psychology, ethnography, feminist theory and literature, to explore the fine lines between harmony and friction, intimacy and violence in our group dynamics and our memories.
My work questions what it is to re-represent a memory, when a memory itself is the re-representation of an experience. How can we understand ourselves and our relationships better through our connection with things and representations? Through memories and mis-memory. What is it to forget? In the context of the ‘painted world’ I create, abstraction and 2 dimensionality, becoming 3 dimensionality, enhances the absurdity of the narratives and social relations my work is concerned with. I question what role representation and ‘psychoanalytic projection’ have in our understanding of experiences, and how a painting can ‘come alive’ to re-represent the past.
I create large scale multi-media ‘happenings’ that combine figurative painting with performance. These ‘happenings’ explore, through the context of a ‘painted world’, how we emotionally process our pasts, memories, and losses. Costumes, props and sets I create are all constructed of canvas and paint, and the works sometimes become films, presented in an installation format.
I am concerned with social systems and group interactions, particularly dynamics that transgress the boundaries of the human, the object, and the representation. I use memories and my relationships with friendship circles as the backbone of my research, combined with concepts of anthropological theory, psychology, ethnography, feminist theory and literature, to explore the fine lines between harmony and friction, intimacy and violence in our group dynamics and our memories.
My work questions what it is to re-represent a memory, when a memory itself is the re-representation of an experience. How can we understand ourselves and our relationships better through our connection with things and representations? Through memories and mis-memory. What is it to forget? In the context of the ‘painted world’ I create, abstraction and 2 dimensionality, becoming 3 dimensionality, enhances the absurdity of the narratives and social relations my work is concerned with. I question what role representation and ‘psychoanalytic projection’ have in our understanding of experiences, and how a painting can ‘come alive’ to re-represent the past.
Biography:
Sept. 2020 - July 2022
MA Artistic Research at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
Oct. 2017 - Aug. 2020
BFA Fine Art student at The Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford, St Catherine’s College.
Sept. 2016 - July 2017
Full time art student on a foundation course at The Royal Drawing School.
Sept. 2020 - July 2022
MA Artistic Research at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
Oct. 2017 - Aug. 2020
BFA Fine Art student at The Ruskin School of Art, The University of Oxford, St Catherine’s College.
Sept. 2016 - July 2017
Full time art student on a foundation course at The Royal Drawing School.
Awards:
June 2019
Research Travel Award (St. Catherine’s College, Prof Roger Ainsworth, Oxford)
Oct. 2018 + Oct. 2019
ATV Scholarship (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford)
June 2018
John Farthing Prize for outstanding work in Human Anatomy in first year.
June 2018
Research Travel Award (St. Catherine’s College, Prof Roger Ainsworth, Oxford)
June 2019
Research Travel Award (St. Catherine’s College, Prof Roger Ainsworth, Oxford)
Oct. 2018 + Oct. 2019
ATV Scholarship (St. Catherine’s College, Oxford)
June 2018
John Farthing Prize for outstanding work in Human Anatomy in first year.
June 2018
Research Travel Award (St. Catherine’s College, Prof Roger Ainsworth, Oxford)
Selected exhibitions:
27 - 30 Oct. 2022
'OYO6'. Haagse Kunstkring, Den Haag. Netherlands.
15 April 2022
'Home: Frontiers of the domestic'. Assendelftstraat 16D, Den Haag. Netherlands.
8 - 10 April 2022
'A Scenic Route to Self'. Nest, Den Haag. Netherlands.
29 - 30 May 2021
'In Pending Waters'. De Helena, Den Haag. Netherlands.
20 - 21 Mar. 2021
'Sunkissed//Fog Off'. Quarter, Den Haag. Netherlands
31 Jan. - 1 Feb. 2020
‘The Ground is Easier to Walk On’. St Catherine’s College, Oxford. UK
18 - 19 May 2019
St Catherine's College annual art exhibition. St Catherine's College, Oxford. UK
25 - 27 January 2019
'An Insight'.St Catherine's College, Oxford. UK
https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/catz-fine-artists-host-an-insight-into-their-work/
14 — 25 July 2018
The Art of Anatomy., The Barn Gallery, St John's College, Oxford. UK
27 - 30 Oct. 2022
'OYO6'. Haagse Kunstkring, Den Haag. Netherlands.
15 April 2022
'Home: Frontiers of the domestic'. Assendelftstraat 16D, Den Haag. Netherlands.
8 - 10 April 2022
'A Scenic Route to Self'. Nest, Den Haag. Netherlands.
29 - 30 May 2021
'In Pending Waters'. De Helena, Den Haag. Netherlands.
20 - 21 Mar. 2021
'Sunkissed//Fog Off'. Quarter, Den Haag. Netherlands
31 Jan. - 1 Feb. 2020
‘The Ground is Easier to Walk On’. St Catherine’s College, Oxford. UK
18 - 19 May 2019
St Catherine's College annual art exhibition. St Catherine's College, Oxford. UK
25 - 27 January 2019
'An Insight'.St Catherine's College, Oxford. UK
https://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/catz-fine-artists-host-an-insight-into-their-work/
14 — 25 July 2018
The Art of Anatomy., The Barn Gallery, St John's College, Oxford. UK
Theatre Work:
Sept. 2022 - Present
Dresser for the National Ballet in Amsterdam.
Nov. 2019 - Feb. 2020
Supervising set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘Rent’, which ran at St Catherine’s College in Oxford in February 2020.
Feb. - Nov. 2019
Set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘Spring Awakening’, which ran at ‘The Oxford Playhouse’ in Oxford in November 2019.
Feb. - May 2019
Set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ which ran at Pembroke College in Oxford in June 2019.
Feb. - Mar. 2019
Set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘The C-Bomb’, which ran at the ‘Theatro Technis’ in London in March 2019.
Oct. 2018 - Feb. 2019
Assistant set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘Made in Dagenham’, which ran at ‘The Oxford Playhouse’ in Oxford in February 2019.
Oct. 2018 - Feb. 2019
Set designer for the student led theatre production ’Numbers’, which ran at ‘The Michael Pilch Studio’ in Oxford in February 2019, and from there toured the UK as Oxford University drama society's offering for the Edinburgh Fringe festival.
Sept. 2022 - Present
Dresser for the National Ballet in Amsterdam.
Nov. 2019 - Feb. 2020
Supervising set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘Rent’, which ran at St Catherine’s College in Oxford in February 2020.
Feb. - Nov. 2019
Set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘Spring Awakening’, which ran at ‘The Oxford Playhouse’ in Oxford in November 2019.
Feb. - May 2019
Set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ which ran at Pembroke College in Oxford in June 2019.
Feb. - Mar. 2019
Set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘The C-Bomb’, which ran at the ‘Theatro Technis’ in London in March 2019.
Oct. 2018 - Feb. 2019
Assistant set designer for the student led theatre production of ‘Made in Dagenham’, which ran at ‘The Oxford Playhouse’ in Oxford in February 2019.
Oct. 2018 - Feb. 2019
Set designer for the student led theatre production ’Numbers’, which ran at ‘The Michael Pilch Studio’ in Oxford in February 2019, and from there toured the UK as Oxford University drama society's offering for the Edinburgh Fringe festival.
