Sculpture

My birth, textile cork resin plastic EPS, 160x140x185cm, 2024

In 2023 I got a grant from the AFK, for surging new materials in this fast develloping sutainable field. I’m fascinated by this thought of recycling, using second hand EPS and textile but also cork. I saw this magnificent cork oaks in Portugal they are so strong in the red earth, so majestic, it’s magic to have a piece of that in the studio.

NO return, textile cork resin plastic EPS, 160x155x145cm, 2024

Phoenix, cork EPS paper pulp paint acrylcast, 135x70x130cm, 2024

My friend, textile steel EPS paper pulp nylon, h.230cm, 2024

Studio life

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, your eyes! styrofoam pepermache acrylic, 45x25x15, 2024

DUCK, Styrofoam papermache acylic flock, 42x20x20cm, 2024

Portrait of Jack K. , Styrofoam papermache acrylic textile 55x15x25 cm, 2024

Starting Point I, Steel EPS polyurea laquer, 70x90x220 cm, 2024

Starting Point II, Steel EPS Polyurea Laquer, 60x80x142cm, 2023

Starting point III, Steel EPS polyurea laquer, 60x95x148 cm, 2024

I’m not a rock, EPS textile papier mache steel plastic, 2024

Stages of life no 1 Girls don’t cry, EPS textile paint iron, 90x140x170cm, 2023

Installation Four stages of life, 2023

Stages of life no 2 Love, EPS textile tape paint iron, 65x80x185cm, 2023

Stages of life no 3 Dance, EPS textile tape paint iron, 100x100x310cm, 2023

Stages of life no 4 Days that count, EPS textile tape paint iron, 70x60x180cm, 2023

Jurjen Donkers, Picture Press Holland

H.K.H. Princess Beatrix attended at Voorhout Monumentaal, Den Haag, NL 2023

SHE is GIANT, steel EPS polyurea paint, 120x70x310cm, 2023

Stoere Bloemen, commission Amsterdam, Erik de Roodestraat, 2023

if we would all be plant, polyurea steel foam paint, height 175cm , 2023

The sculpture series began in 2012, from a need to relate to people. After years of investigations, wanderings into the origins of landscape and civilization, in photographs and installations, I could no longer avoid the human being.
My own physical state, psyche and history became the starting point. Every sculpture I make is something I can therefore change – as I in fact do myself.
The materials I prefer to use had and have a role in the old and the new history of mankind. The dissection of that history reveals them: clay, glass, bitumen, plaster, metals, mirror aluminium, textile, acrylic.
In 2017, these were joined by silk, given to me by the sisters during my residency at the textiles workshop of Our Beloved Lady Abbey in Oosterhout. The silk brought a refinement, softness, and above all colour to the raw skin of the sculptures. Silk is not just a beautiful material, but also has an extensive history of culture and trade. I am aware of this every time I use it. As I discovered while working with it, the choice goes beyond the intrinsic quality of the material.

GIANT Centaur GIRL, 340x285x70cm, 2022

The Giant Centaur Girl is a tribute to all the girls world wide who use their power for the beter. The Greta Thurnberg, Malala Yousafzai, Olga Misik and all the others who empower and put important matters on world agenda’s. Thank you all, let’s go on!

https://www.beeldengalerijhaarlem.nl/De-Beelden/, Haarlem NL

Sisters, Grosse Geister II, Lustwarande Tilburg 2022, courtesy SMART ART Collection

They stand for inclusion and diversity, but above all for the female power to embrace and empower. They are the new women, showing the female gaze; Strong and Sensitive. If you see them; Go for a hug and dance!

GIANT PONY GIRL, 3×1,2×4 m, EPS textile paint, 2022

HEAR HEAR, HER HER, ceramic EPS, 90x60x200cm, 2022

Hand, Pu foam wood plastic glove, 160x65x45cm 2022-23

and the girl, mixed material, 140x55x60cm, 2022

Grosse Geister (Female) and the girl, 90x110x250cm, 2022

Sisters, @Artzuid, 2021 SMART ART Collection

In the summer of 2020, when you could still just drop in on each other, Cintha van Heeswijck, director of ArtZuid, came to my studio and invited me to make work for ArtZuid for two locations. I loved it, a challenge, a new material and new size! They became the Sisters.
The Sisters stands for inclusion and diversity, but above all for the female power to embrace and empower. They are the new women, Strong and Sensitive. If you see them; Go for a hug and dance!
In preparation for the Sisters is a series of porcelain sculptures, titled NOW!, about 52 cm. high. In this series, I investigate the shapes and proportions of the figures to each other, and the colour.

Big Sister, EPS steel polyurea paint, 240x50x100cm, Artzuid 2021 private collection

I see you V, stoneware textile iron, 120x80x175cm, 2021

I see you III, stoneware textile iron, 50x45x180cm, 2021

I see you II, stoneware textile iron, 70x40x170 cm, 2021

Studio visit, detail, modular stoneware engobe, 165x53x62cm, 2021

Our boat, we’re in, together, installation, 130x98x88cm, 2020

My father, my sister, print on alu dibond sailors trunk coat, 200x120x60 cm, 2020

studioview: Icarus flip B. II, 2016-2020

Idol MB, M2, studioview 2019

Icarus flip Bacchus, 150x125x135cm, mirror, Led and more, 2016-2019
In the background: Not Bambi, It’s about balance, Stadsfestival Damme BE 2019

Extended Studio, Day 7, Art Chapel 2019 overview

Ho Horse III, 2019

Idol MB, 2019

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Idol W., 2019

Ho Horse II, 2019

Idol F., 2019

Idol M, 2018

Ho Rietveld!, 130x86x130 cm, 2018

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Daughter of Bosch, 2018

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Not Leda, 2018

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Idol Rietveld CE, 2018

S., 2018

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and the Girl, 2018

Not Bambi, It’s about balance, 2018

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Idol G10, 2018

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Atlas was a woman and the world square, 135x100x100cm, 2018

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SAD, 2018

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Idol G5 , 2018

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Idol CH, 135x95x110cm, 2018

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Feet study, 2018

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Idol BW, 68x27x30cm, brons silk 2018

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Just a Day, 2012-2018

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Idol BdB., 2012-2017

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Idol PP, 2012-17

Idol J., 67x24x20 cm, 2012-2017

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Idol M., 40x50x15 cm, 2014-2017

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Idol L., 64x43x20 cm, 2012-2017

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Icarus III, 90x130x85cm, 2014-17

Idol from U to U, 2012-19

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POP, 130x80x50 cm, 2017

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POP, 130x80x50 cm, 2017

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Idol F., 130x80x50 cm, 2017

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Idol N., 62x27x18 cm, bronze,polished face green and black patina, 2017

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From the broken safety series: two thousand one space odyssey, 100x150x16cm, solar panel, led light safety glass, 2017

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Inner, 2017

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Broken Safety, broken glass of bus shelters LED, 2016

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Installatie Broken Safety, 2016

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Odyssee, 2015

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Dimmable Man, 2015

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Broken 1, 2015-2016

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Broken 2, 2015-2016

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Broken 3, 2015-2016

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Broken 4, 2015-2016

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Broken 5, 2015-2016

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Sur la place, 2015

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Idol S, 2015

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Idol L. and E., 2015

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Detail Idol L, 205x100x45cm, 2015

Little Red Riding Hood, a sculpture wandering in the woods, 180x60x40xcm 2015.

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Little Red riding Hood, 180x60x40xcm, 2015

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The three graces, 2015

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Hands, 140x60x20cm, mixed media, 2014

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Indian, 45x50x12cm, mixed media, 2014

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SNWT nr 9, 55x45x30cm, reinforced plaster fiber, 2014

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Searching for Icons

The sculpture series 7 Lovers is based on Snow White.
was supported by the AFK , Amsterdam Fund for the Arts

The story of Snow White is about all form of relationships. By making a series of Snow White, I explored all possible combination can be explored. The figure of Snow White is raw, unfinished, without much detail. She can be you. She is pure, sensitive but without any help of her friends she is nowhere. Her 7 friends rescue her time after time; give her a home and work. For short; we need each other, even Snow White can’t handle it all on her own.