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).

This is the new sculpture series i've been meaning to start for a long time now, the idea is making GOD fetuses, this is my first one, the JESUS FETUS.....

i intend to make Shiva Ganesha Horus and others soon, it was fun to finish the first prototype first to see if the idea worked, i was very pleased to see that the water and glycerine creates beautiful opportunities to manipulate light and give the sculpture all kinds of new dimensions adding to the spiritual aspect of the sculpture....a very convenient side effect that i did not predict.

This weekend was the Realisme Beurs in Amsterdam, and the first occasion for me to unveil the first sculptures in a series inspired by ancient goddesses.

The first of the series is my fertility goddess based on one of the oldest representation of a fertility goddess from the stone age found in Lespugue.

When i was growing up my mother had a small representation of that sculpture in the house which i was always attracted to.

this is my first attempt at macro photography.......

These are the first two bottles i made for ZARB champagne as a promotion

ZARB asked a hand full of artists in Amsterdam to create sculptures using the bottles as a canvas.

These two are themed "life and death".

more to come.......

This was the Zarb champagne for gay pride Amsterdam 2011
not my design or concept but....well.....i'm the mouth in the middle ;)

"On est tous Zarb!" was the slogan of the 2011 Paris expo of Zarb champagne bottles.
This 3 headed wonder was used to illustrate how we are all Zarb by having celebrity and guest faces flashed on to the bottle.

I was also asked to help set up the pop up Zarb expo in Paris in September of 2011, a promotion during fashion week, it tured out to look very good and was an incredibly fun job.

insect sculpture

This is king oberon from Midsummer night's dream, made of beetles and cicada wings with golden plants and a throne of parrot bones.