Every year the bloembureau (flower office) of Holland makes an event celebrating a species of flowers and this year i was lucky enough to be chosen to promote the bromeliad flower.

The idea was to make a piece that appeals to the fashion carrier based Dutch woman and the result would be displayed in the Maison de bonneterie in Amsterdam.

Afetr long consideration i decided to make a window display including a dress and a flower skeleton and in this case i was lucky enough to be able to work on a Puma skeleton.

It was quite different from my usual techniques to use real flowers and as much as the perishable aspect scared me at first these particular flowers have proven to be resilient and beautiful beyond my expectations.

Needless to say this was a LOT of fun to work on.

the "making of" video is courtesy of my talented friends at Oxford house

( http://www.oxfordhouse.nl )

http://bloemenbureau.pressdoc.com/46642-bloemenbureau-holland-daagt-kunstenaar-uit-met-uitzinnige-bromelia

Galley Da-End Paris

I have recently had the occasion to work with Gallery Da -End in Paris (http://www.da-end.com/)

during their summer collaboration exhibition entitled "fleurs du mal" centered around flowers.

For this theme i decided to make my second fairy throne, made of diverse bones and a few dried plant elements the idea was to make a throne fit for a fairy king in nature.

Fairy Throne 2

This is the second fairy throne that i have made so far, I took inspiration from the title of the upcoming exhibition "les fleurs du mal"of gallery Da-end in Paris,  i have had a lot of fun playing with it's architecture and am still fascinated by how much bones have to offer in terms of shapes and texture.

special thanks to Rob Achterberg and Marianne Hofstee for their donations.

This Piece will be exposed in Paris fron the 16th of May to the 20th of July in gallery Da-end during the "fleurs du mal"exhibition.

( http://www.da-end.com )

New /First Headpiece

Photo by Anna Rozenblat.

This is my first headpiece,it was featured in Art basel Miami and is currently exhibited in the 2013 Realisme beurs Amsterdam. Special thanks to the beautiful Florence Schreinemachers for being my model.

Foetus flower skeleton.

This is my newest piece of the flower skeleton series initially designed for the Guerilla Zoo exhibition. http://www.guerrillazoo.com/art.html

  

MONSIEUR PLASTIQUE (the new flower sculpture )

I had the opportunity to work for my friend Paul van der Zanden ( AKA monsieur plastique ) one of the most promising amsterdam DJ's ( http://monsieurplastique.wix.com/monsieur-plastique )

This mask I made for his performance at Valtifest 2012 Amsterdam, and I couldn't be happier with the result.

New Fairies

These new additions will be displayed in the View Gallery Bristol ( http://www.viewartgallery.co.uk/ ) as well as the Bristol Affordable Art  Fair ( http://www.affordableartfair.com/bristol/home/ ) .

Dansgroep Amsterdam

Recently i was invited to work with choreographer Sjoerd Vreugdenhil and Dansgroep Amsterdam on the performance " Viewture 2".

This performance in three parts ( Sjoerd Vreugdenhil- one i was body, Ivgi & Gerben - i could almost taste you baby and Jussi Nousiainen- Awoom ) was an incredible struggle of work, pain, esthetics and sensuality.

Sjoerd Vreugdenhil developed the set design for Viewture II

by first of all fulfilling his colleagues’wishes, and in a further

stage responding to the result of this design. This gave him

an empty, but spacious feeling to work with. He cast his

mind back over his past, and thought about how his body

felt when he was in his physical prime.Mental flashbacks of

choreographies he had danced in gave rise to the question

of how it feels to live in a thick cloud for almost ten years.

It was not physically or mentally oppressive, but it was very

limited in comparison to his time as a dancer. In order to

physically translate these thoughts and feelings, he asked

the dancers to draw on emotions from their own young life.

The creative process turned into an intensive cooperation

between the choreographer and the dancers. The resulting

choreography features five characters who each form part

of Vreugdenhil’s dance memory in an autonomous world of

the present. Sculptor Cedric Laquieze created a metaphoric

object to represent the theme,thus catalysing the dancers

both mentally and physically.

The sculpture in question is one of the flower skeleton series that the dancers affectionately called Pina.

Three brand new editions to the fairy family, i think i'll never stop making these.....

Nose jewelry

These are the first series of my nose pieces presented in Art Kitchen for their "Cult Club : Pret a Couture" exhibition. ( http://www.artkitchen.nl ) .

When I was studying theatre design I always kept an eye on the jewelry department of my school. At some point I came across an old image of traditional Maori jewelry that covered the nose and sometimes the neck, so I decided to do something similar using more modern textures.
 Here are my first two attempts at making facial jewelry. (special thanks to monsieur plastic for being my model).