by admin | Mar 1, 2024
once in a blue moon A series of 1970’s rural Dutch childhood memories, painted in blue and white on wooden oval panels were created during lockdown, when people were banned from traveling abroad, preventing the artist from visiting her family and looking after her...
by admin | Nov 30, 2023
READ BETWEEN THE LINES The conventional handicraft techniques Tisna employs-ranging from printmaking, to drawing, needlework, embroidery and papercuts- as a vehicle for her ideas, are labour intensive and providing her with a process that allows for time to reflect on...
by admin | Nov 28, 2023
aBC hankies Turning real life topics into an embroidered ABC, using the therapeutic healing nature of comedy as a coping mechanism. The 26 handkerchiefs, a token of affection and representing truth, are the basis for the love heart shaped alphabet patchworks, in an...
by admin | Nov 24, 2023
page 3 girls When moving to London back in 1999, I was mortified by the British newspaper convention of publishing a large image of a topless female model on the third page of mainstream red top tabloids. The 21 embroidered page 3 girls explore the topics of...
by admin | Nov 24, 2023
black wall street ‘Black Wall Street’ is an installation based on current media reports of police brutality in the US and the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots of Whites against Blacks, one of the most devastating massacres in the history of US race relations. ...
