Wietske van Leeuwen

Wietske van Leeuwen in Paris, 1988.

Wietske van Leeuwen (born September 22, 1965 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch ceramist.[1]

Life and work

Born in Rotterdam to Sjoerd and Marianne van Leeuwen, Van Leeuwen grew up in Mijnsheerenland. Her father ran a timber trading company in Overschie, and her uncle is the photographer Piet van Leeuwen (born 1942).[2] She studied handicrafts and textile art at the teacher education in Delft from 1984 to 1989, and ceramic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1989 to 1993[3] under Jan van der Vaart, and Henk Trumpie.[4]

After graduation she settled in Amsterdam as independent artist and started her own studio. She received a number of grants from the Mondriaan Fonds, Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts. Her works are constructed in a baroque style, with shells and fruit as recurring motifs. Since 1997 she is also working as teacher ceramics and drawing at various courses.

Work of Van Leeuwen is present in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag,[5] the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam,[6] and the Princessehof Ceramics Museum.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Biographical data at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  2. ↑ Piet van Leeuwen (1942-) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
  3. ↑ Curriculum Vitae at wietskevanleeuwen.nl. Accessed 22.05.2015.
  4. ↑ Press release "Jan van der Vaart en leerlingen," in Galerie Carla Koch, Delft 2005. Accessed 15.05.2015.
  5. ↑ Marjan Boot. "Aanwinsten eigentijdse vormgeving," in: Haags Gemeente Museumkrant, 1993.
  6. ↑ "In the rough : images of nature through the ages in the collection of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum; January 13 through April 1, 2001." Fundação de Serralves, 2001
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