About Cecil Kemperink
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Education
1985 - 1990
Fontys University of Applied Sciences/ Tilburg/The Netherlands
Awards
2020
Special recommendation prize
2019
Finalist Open To Art
2018
Arte laguna prize
I lived and worked for five weeks in Venice, with Murano Glass.
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Event: IAC New members exhibition
Dates: 7 Nov 2020 - 28 Nov 2020
The IAC received outstanding applications 2019 and would like to thank the candidates and the sponsors for their support of the development of this network of enthusiastic professionals in ceramics.
It has been a pleasure to be involved in the judgement of your work: the quality of the applied works have been very high. Your art works represent a rich diversity, great variation in content, expression, size, form, colour, structures and textures, and in the use of the clay material and ceramic techniques as language. Innovative, experimental and critical.
Here is much to see, learn of and reflect on.
”The goal of IAC is to stimulate friendship and communication between professionals in the field of ceramics in all countries. IAC develops and encourages all forms of international cooperation to promote ceramics and to encourage and maintain the highest level of quality production in all ceramic cultures.”
Event: Taiwan ceramics biennale
Dates: 2 Nov 2020 - 2 May 2021
The Biennale has its eighth edition in 2020. It provides a display platform for contemporary ceramic artists at home and abroad. In the form of artwork competition, this year’s Biennale called for artists of all nationalities and in all ages to submit ceramic-based artwork (i.e. ceramic is required to account for more than 50% of all materials). After more than a year of international publicity, the Biennale accepted submissions till May, 2019, and received 732 entries from 58 countries across five continents, reaching its highest number in 16 years, to compete for NT$1M Grand Prize.
Event: Rings of view
Dates: 10 Jul 2019 - 25 Oct 2019
I won an artist in residence in this wonderful museum!
The works I made during this period are exhibited during my solo exhibition.
Biography
Ceramics in motion
‘Motion is a key part of the expressiveness of my sculptures.
The movements show the importance of each circle. Every ring is essential and
influences the other; they are all connected, they are all one. Every link
wears the symbolism of a circle: conjunction, connection, power, endlessness,
an eternally ongoing movement.
I am inspired
by the rhythms of nature. Every day I see and experience so many changes. Beautiful
drawings are scarved with sand by the waves. The beach holds them for a little
while, before wind and water changes their designs. Over and over again. Silhouettes
of branches are dancing in the wind. Sometimes stormy and hard to see, sometimes calm and clearly.
Every time
and everywhere, I experience movements creating new beauty.’
About Cecil and her art
As a curious
and sensitive child/teenager she followed many art and dance classes. After one
year at the fashion academy, she switched to visual arts, where the love to
explore different materials was encouraged. After her graduation she started with wheel throwing and that was the
beginning of a deep understanding and eagerness to ‘talk’ with clay.
Her sculptures are connections between her varied passions: textile, clay,
dance, fashion and sculpture.
She explores space and plays with
rhythm, shape/form, movement, energy and sound. Cecil’s work is telling you a story. Listen, see, feel and experience what happens when the sculptures move
and enjoy the moment.
Her
professional practice has taken her to exhibitions, performances and catwalk
shows. Kemperink has exhibited in Milan (I) - South Korea (ROK) - Mino Japan (J) - Vallauris (F) - and many
other museums and galleries.
Cecil Kemperink’s work can be found in the collections of: Korea Ceramic
Foundation (KOCEF collection), CODA museum (NL), The Foundation
for Contemporary Ceramic Arts Kecskemét (HU), Ceramics Museum (NL) and private
collections.
