embroidery plan project HAND@WORK, photo Mique Menheere, courtesy Pauline Nijenhuis Although I’m not very fond of competition and battles, I’m really pleased to participate in the latest project HAND@WORK of multi media artist Pauline Nijenhuis. In this project she investigates what makes the difference between an artwork embroidered by men or by machine. It questions …
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Joke Lunsing, textile artist
Selfie no. 5, Joke Lunsing, photo courtesy by Joke Lunsing “I love to be in the bubble of calmness” It could have been my words, they are Joke Lunsing’s… Apparently we both experience the same mindful feeling while embroidering, feeling calm and “zen”. We also both started quite late in life with giving space to …
New Potatoes, Tilleke Schwarz
Playground, 2008, Tilleke Schwarz, courtesy by the artist Not being arty? “When I told gallery owners that I embroidered, they stop”. This is what Tilleke Schwarz (1946, Pijnacker, Netherlands) experienced in the nineties trying to exhibit and sell her work at galleries. Me myself I expericence the same when talking to people about my embroidery …
Sampler diary, Megaliths
Love for making samplers For some reason I love making samplers. Trying out things, make little attempts for working with all kind of techniques… At this blog I will regularly show samplers I made. And tell something about the “how, what and why” of it. A kind of diary, you could say… Love for architecture …
De Verdronkenen (The Drown), Miep van Riessen
De Verdonkenen, Miep van Riessen, 2008, photo Jan van de Ven (photo from the book “De Verdronkenen van Miep van Riessen, Stichting Miep van Riessen), courtesy by Stichting Miep van Riessen Map of Zeeland, De Meulenhoff Atlas, page 24, Meulenhoff Educatie Amsterdam 1974 Multiple disasters in one It’s 1953, the night from January 31 to …
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Mónica Leitão Mota
Highway trees, Mónica Leitao Mota, 2017, photo courtesy by the artist At the end of 2016 Mónica Leitao Mota, a Portugese mixed media and fibre artist living in Canada, drove along the highway on the way to a thread festival in Oakville. Her eye caught beautiful trees along the highway. Inspired by this sight later …
Serious International Business, Museum Rijswijk
arctic charade # swagger, by Preta Wolzak, photo by Mique Menheere We Are Internationally Very Sad, Bas Kosters, 2016, photo by Mique Menheere Some years ago Bas Kosters and Preta Wolzak met each other at Art Basel Miami. They felt a connection, so when Museum Rijswijk asked Preta for an exposition, she preferred to exhibit …
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Sampler Diary, Land of the Sea
Sampler Land of the Sea, Mique Menheere, photo Mique Menheere Chintzes Last year in an embroidery course I learned a technique to work (embroidery) fabric. I experienced a bit and painted some cotton with red textile paint. I associated the result that arose with Chintz fabrics from Asia. In the 18th century the Dutch VOC …
Cultural Threads, Textile Museum
Memory Unsettled, Celio Braga, detail, 2016, photo artyembroidery.com Textile Museum commisions new works In 2018 the Textielmuseum at Tilburg (the Netherlands), asked four Dutch artists to develop new works in cooperation with their TextielLab. Leading inspiration for the museum was the book Cultural Threads by Jessica Hemmings (2014). Some artists unraveled histories and searched for …