About The Artist
Education
– Academy for Visual Arts, Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands
– Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
– Artist in residence: Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum, Heusden
– 1981 – 2012 worked Mozambique
Exhibitions among others in The Netherlands
– Singer Museum, Laren
– Drents Museum, Assen
– Galerie Lieve Hemel, Amsterdam
– Galerie Aelbrecht, Rotterdam
– Galerie Hüsstege, ‘s Hertogenbosch
– Galerie Het Pakhuis, Groningen
– Galerie Polder, Borne
– Galerie de Fiets, Delft
– Galerie Terra Cotta, Groningen
– Galerie ‘T’, Middelburg
– Galerie de Wittte Kamer, Delden
– Galerie de Vis, Leeuwarden
– Galerie Kunstwerk, Utrecht
– Beelden aan de Vecht, Maarssen
– Sculpture Garden, De Stegge, Winterswijk
– Interart Sculpture Garden, Heeswijk-Dinther
United Kingdom
– Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London
South Africa
– The Loop Gallery, White River
– Dimitriv Gallery, Dulstroom
– Fresh Paint Gallery, Durban
– Kizo Art Consultants, Durban
– Nothagel Gallery, Mosselbay
– Everard Reed Gallery, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town Mozambique
Mozambique
– Centro Cultural Franco Mocambicano, Maputo
– Núcleo de Arte, Maputo
– Banco Comercial e Investimento Gallery, Maputo
– Museu Nacional de Arte, MUSART, Maputo
Other
Works acquired by the Museum of Drenthe, Museu Nacional de Arte, MUSART, Maputo, various companies and individual collectors.
Various (portrait) commissions for, among others, Van Lanschot Bank, Unilever, VSM Concern, architects and individual collectors.
2015/2016 Commission of the National Bank of Mozambique for a large sculpture for their new buildling in Maputo.
Portraits could be commissioned as well as business presents, grave monuments in both clay and bronze.
Publications
– Contemporary Ceramics in The Netherlands, 2008
– The Contemporary Portrait in The Netherlands, Hans Redeker, 2010
– Earthen Realities, Aspects of contemporary realistic ceramics in The Netherlands. Koen Nieuwendijk/Mieke G. Spruit Ledeboer, 2012
– The Ceramic Guide, NVK, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2015
– Human Chemistry, Galerie Hüsstege, 1990
– Homage to Erasmus, Galerie Aelbrecht, 1990
Member of
– Dutch Luxury Design
– European Sculpture Nedwork
– MEMENTO foundation for Funeral art
– NVK Netherlands’ Association for Ceramic Artists
– NABK – National Association for Visual Artists
