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ARBOREA – Trees You’ve Never Seen
I can finally announce my new solo exhibition Arborea, to be held at the Painted Tree Gallery in Northcliffe, Southern Forest Arts, between 20 May and 25 June 2023. The exhibition will also show at Pantechnica Gallery during the 2023 York Festival 21 September - 1 October 2023.
Tributaries: Artist Talk and Workshop in Rockingham
I am really pleased that Tributaries, before heading to the regions with Art On The Move, will be showing in Rockingham. Rockingham Arts Centre has recently been renovated under the directorship of Jude Vander Merwe and is still close enough for Perth and Fremantle audiences, as well as people living in the Peel region.
TRIBUTARIES exhibition at Rockingham Arts Centre
Opens Friday 3 February 6.30pm, runs until Sunday 19 February 2023.
Opening by Dr Oron Catts, Director, Symbiotica, UWA.
TRIBUTARIES On The Move
Art On The Move (AOTM) has selected the TRIBUTARIES exhibition to tour around Western Australia and beyond from 2023 to 2025. AOTM plays a critical role in connecting art, people, and place. Galleries and Museums around Western Australia.
A good year, naturally
2022 has been a stellar year, which started with my marriage to Adam Bennett, and sharing our love in a sublime wedding celebration. It inspired me to create wedding rings incorporating tree bark and other aspects of the natural world.
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.