Visual artist and book designer, studied fine-art, was film operator in a local film house, worked for several years as a photographer, did an MA in editorial design at the Werkplaats Typografie. Since then, she has worked closely and in various roles together with artists, authors and publishers on book- and other projects. From 2004 on, with Rob Hamelijnck, she makes the travelling artist-(maga)zine for non-academic research Fucking Good Art. FGA engages in field research into the humus of art and life around the artwork, (local) conditions of art and culture, with a special interest in oral history, history of ideas, anarchism, self-organisation and DIY-T/do it yourself-together. FGA appears irregularly, mostly on paper or as radio, sometimes as an installation in museum contexts—but always from a local specificity and with other makers and thinkers. From 2012—'18 core tutor at the Master of Choreography in Arnhem, now mentor at DAS arts. Since 2022, with choregrapher Emilier Gallier and artist NIna Boas active in the ongoing research: Glaneuses et Vers de Terre/ Gleaners and the Worms.
Glaneuses et Vers de Terre / Gleaners and the worms
GVdT is a collection of practices cultivating ways of being with landscape as we are absorbed within it rather than as a detached spectacle to observe. We look for verbs, gestures to sense our bodies in connection with soils and skies. Head down, butt up, we turn down to the lives out of sight: worms deep under, birds beyond the horizon. Inclined, we grow bodies of roots and waterfalls that take up water and poor it back out, enabling complete cycles and and processes of regeneration.