Artist statement
I explore environmental issues and spiritual beliefs such as impermanence and nonattachment.
Non-attachment to material possessions, emotions, ideas and beliefs. Paper is my current material of choice to express ideas around ephemerality.
I am an intuitive maker. I rely on my hands rather than my brain, to do the thinking.
Bio
Nina completed her Bachelor of Applied Arts, majoring in Contemporary Jewellery at Whitireia, New Zealand in 2018. Nina was a participant in Handshake 6.
She was awarded two scholarships and won several awards during her studies such as the Dowse-ECC Award, Friends of Pataka Art Award and the Ethical Metalsmiths Student Award. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and was selected for Schmuck 2020.
Nina van Duijnhoven‘s posts
Daemons and Geniuses
For the Nelson CHAINReaction show I played around with several ideas but I wasn’t happy … they were just not right, they were lacking…. Lacking what I didn’t know, I couldn’t put my finger on it... they were just a bit meh… a bit average, contrived… I didn’t feel good...
Te Auaha Show
Our first exhibition at Te Auaha was about showing our process. My process is doing, making, and generally quite a lot of it. I don’t draw, I don’t spend a lot time thinking prior to making. I sit down and just start… doing something…and from that something little...
Break Down
In 2001, British artist Michael Landy addressed excess consumerism and waste, by destroying all his possessions in an art project called “Break Down”. In the 3 years leading up to this event, every single one of his 7227 possessions was carefully classified and...
The Conversation
Peter Deckers has given us a range of performative exercises to help us get out of our habitual working patterns. One of these exercises is to talk, shout, whisper or make sounds to your object, and see what response this creates in you or your object. What is your...
Nina van Duijnhoven‘s artworks:
Untitled, Brooches 2021. Acid free paper, paper mache, pastel. Various sizes, piece no.2 H10cm x W 8cm x D1cm
A conversation, Neckpiece 2021. Acid free paper, pastel
Shackles, Neckpiece 2021. Acid free paper, pastel. H800cm x W17cm x D6cm
Untitled, Neckpiece 2021. Acid free paper, pastel, silk cord. H60cm x W26cm x D7cm
Untitled, Neckpiece 2021. Acid free paper, pastel, silk cord. H35cm x W27cm x D5cm
Untitled, Brooch 2021. Acid free paper, pastel, silk cord. H22cmm x W16cm x D6cm
Shackles, Neckpiece 2021. Acid free paper, pastel. H800cm x W17cm x D16cm
The (un) seen, Wall pieces 2022. Japanese rice paper, cotton thread, pastel. H: 40cm X W: 80cm X D 4cm
The (un) seen, (Detail). Wall pieces 2022. Japanese rice paper, cotton thread, pastel