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Threadlike and light
Tineke creates hidden landscapes within bodies making jewellery from inside out.
This is Tributary work
Three years in the making, and now it is here: Tributaries, an exhibition of works that connect with Western Australia. Before and during the pandemic I have explored the landscapes within and out there, the unique flora and fauna in Western Australia.
We are waterways. TRIBUTARIES exhibition opens soon
I walk, sense, trace the changes.
I once followed a river and with each crossing of one of its tributaries, the landscape grew as a character teaching me about my internal landscape, and how to navigate human relationships.
It changed me.
Disturbingly beautiful?
In 'Tributaries', a solo exhibition at MAC, what you'd see may be as beautiful as it may be disturbing. Through wearable jewellery, objects and photographs I am depecting the fragility of the nature around us in Western Australia. Without prejudice - for I too am a 'settler'.
A gem older than the Indian Ocean
This gem is the centre of a series of works I am preparing for Counterpoint, an exhibition in the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, to be held at Stala Contemporary 3-19 November 2021.
Indian Ocean Craft Triennial
The workshop is busy these days, in preparation for two exhibitions which will be part of the inaugural Indian Ocean Craft Triennial.
Fifteen Filigree Years
A review of 15 years of creating and exhibiting jewellery and visual art. Fifteen Filigree Years offers a survey of visual art work by...
The season of Djeran
Today I feel the Belgian Spring blossoming around me, while in my other home, in Western Australia the colder season of Djeran nourishes the coastal bushland and its wildflowers.