LAURA SCHIPPERS
Laura Schippers (Born in NL, 1985) visual artist, owner of ship Atlas and initiator of Atlas initiatief
THE ARTISTIC PRACTISE OF LAURA
I'm moving through landscapes. In search for the real. Exploring the complex and constantly changing reality.
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
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.
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.
A selection of my work:
'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
