LAURA SCHIPPERS
Laura Schippers (Born in NL, 1985) visual artist, owner of ship Atlas and initiator of Atlas initiatief
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THE ARTISTIC PRACTISE OF LAURA
By moving through landscapes I explore the complex and constantly changing reality. To what extent are we shaped with which we surround ourselves? Is it possible to shape this process?
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With the Atas initiatief I try to create conditions for myself in which the gaze cannot fixate and where the possibilities can continue to unfold.
LAURA AND THE ATLAS INITIATIEF
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When I was in the second grade of the art academy I was wondering how my ideal studio should look like. I knew it had to be a mobile- and a shared one.
Now, a decade later we are living onboard of our renovated former Polish trawler, traveling the world.
During our travel we facilitate projects of artists at sea and in coastal areas.
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A residency at sea will be intensive and because of that I think you will become closely involved in each other's 'worlds'. The exchange of these 'worlds', ideas, perspectives, and the experience of a sea voyage contributes to the development of each other's practices.
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A selection of my work:
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'Indefinite drawing #7', group exhibition 'Neighbour North Sea' with Sheng-Wen Lo, Astrid Nobel & Tanja Engelberts in Quartair Den Haag, 2022
This drawing is inspired by observations and experiences at sea of: Jaco Benckhuijsen, Pia van den Beuken, Tom en Tilly Schippers, Tjeerd de Groot, Peter Joor, Stellendamse vissers, Bert Prinsen & Stijn de Geus.
Installation: 'Potential material for a change of mentality’, group exhibition 'Neighbour North Sea' in Quartair Den Haag, 2022
textual/visual contribution to the publication of the exhibition 'Is Pas d’Espace' with Maud van den Beuken, Loek Grootjans & Margot Zweers in PARK Tilburg, 2021
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'without comment', 2012
'Indefinite drawing #6', group exhibition 'Fresh Cacao' in Cacaofabriek Helmond, 2015
'Indefinite drawing #1 and #2', working period ‘Series’ by Marcel van Eeden, at St. Moritz Art Academy, 2014
'De onbestemde reis, 2015' follow-up project/journey by Laura Schippers with Sjuul Joosen and Eef Schoolmeesters, from Traffic and Red Star Line Museum Antwerp, 2015
'The indefinable journey' participant of a project/journey by Koen Deprez, from Lokaal 01 Breda, 2012.
video-installation 'Galata', group exhibition 'Palais Ideal' in De Fabriek Eindhoven, 2015
videofragment 'Galata'
4 fixed binoculars 'Kijken naar een veranderend lanschap', group exhibition 'Landkunst aan de Zuiderwaterlinie', BKKC, Staatsbosbeheer & Erfgoed Brabant in 's Hertogenbosch, 2017
Digital collage / print 'Hond op kruispunt', 2014
pen drawing, 2014
photo 'Brussel', 2012
Digital collage / print / business gift, commissioned by Gemeente Breda 'Het uitzicht van Breda', 2014
