jeanne hoffman

Preparing the presentation

2011-05-24T11:16:00.002+01:00

Mixing porcelain

2011-05-06T08:54:00.003+01:00

Reduction firing (3)- Celadon

2011-05-06T08:43:00.004+01:00

Assembling the parts

2011-05-06T08:19:00.006+01:00

Tapas on the roof

2011-05-06T08:07:00.006+01:00

"Borrel" on the EKWC's roof - with Maaike Roozenburg, Liet Heringa, Maartin van Kalsbeek and Diederik Radder.

Final presentation 17 May

2011-05-02T14:14:00.001+01:00

2011-04-26T07:18:00.005+01:00

In and out of the kilns

2011-04-25T07:34:00.009+01:00

clay-fire-glaze-fire=celadon

2011-04-25T07:28:00.003+01:00

the studio fills up

2011-04-06T11:36:00.001+01:00

Loading the kiln

2011-03-21T16:52:00.004Z

Prepping for first firing

2011-03-18T19:30:00.006Z

shipwrecked cargoes

2011-03-18T19:26:00.003Z

things that shrink in the wash

2011-03-14T06:24:00.007Z

glaze tests

2011-03-14T06:17:00.006Z

Looking for something that works

2011-03-04T13:46:00.009Z

EKWC: The workspace

2011-02-25T17:47:00.007Z

EKWC: My studio

2011-02-25T17:24:00.017Z

I arrived at the EKWC (European Ceramic Workcentre in Den Bosch; The Netherlands) five days ago. I have been allocated an amazing workspace and all the tools and expertize anyone could hope for is here. It has been overwhelming, since I have virtually no experience with ceramics. But the learning curve is steep, but three months already feels like too short a time.

19 elastic poems

2010-08-31T09:58:00.010+01:00

Preparatory monotypes for a series of three-dimensional objects called 19 elastic poems. These objects are preliminary visual research for my project at the http://www.ekwc.nl/ next year.

FMC 2010

2010-08-31T09:31:00.007+01:00

I just completed a three week residency at the http://www.fransmasereelcentrum.be/

I worked on three series of large scale monotypes as well as lithographs and some experimental etchings. I also made a series of intimate water based monotypes in preparation of a series of objects called "19 elastic poems".

Untitled

Etching on Awagami Kitikata

800X500mm

New Studio: Antwerp

2010-06-22T11:43:00.004+01:00

Red elephants and other nonevents

2009-11-06T19:31:00.007Z

Ilmarinen

2009-08-16T12:14:00.009+01:00

Korvapuusti dough (traditional Finnish pastry), paint, permanent marker, embroidery cotton, goldleaf, natural wood resin. Saari Mansion residency, 2009.

Blackbird

2009-08-16T12:09:00.007+01:00

Black bird
Pine, tar, goldleaf, Saari Mansion residency, Finland, 2009.

"There is a dead bird lying outside next to the door of the barn. There was another dead bird at the entrance to the apartments this morning. Both are lying on their backs. Yesterday a bird flew into the windscreen of the bus"

Wallpaper drawing

2009-08-14T15:41:00.013+01:00

Wallpaper drawing, Site specific drawing, Saari Mansion residency 2,5x3m.

Marjatta

2009-05-05T12:45:00.018+01:00

This piece (like most of the other experiments I made during the residency at Saari Mansion) is loosely based on references to the Finnish creation epic, the Kalevala. In canto 50 Marjatta falls pregnant after eating a lingonberry (marja is Finnish for berry).

Where is everyone?

2009-04-27T12:52:00.009+01:00

What will happen if I go to stay in the Finnish countryside and take only a crochet needle, circular knitting needles, a blue marker, paper and one chisel?

I draw, walk, knit. I eat lingonberries and smoked salmon with hard dark rye bread that excercises the jaw muscles. Make sauna; draw; crochet. I learn to use kiitos, hyvaa and no nii in every conversation. I practice counting and naming the days of the week in Finnish. It becomes a mantra. Maanantai, Lauantai, Keskivikko... and so the weeks pass. I read the Kalevala because it is the annerversary of this epic creation myth. I use what is as hand - the language, the myths from the Kalevala, and wood from the sauna´s store room. It is birch. It smells wonderful when I cut into it. I draw every day, with the blue marker and the chisel. The drawn lines become a narrative. The drawings become a stages - they enact moments from my time here.

Drawings

2009-04-12T19:47:00.003+01:00

kalevala act 1 - Ice dipping

2009-04-11T12:24:00.010+01:00

The Kalevala is an epic poem compiled in the nineteenth century from Finnish folklore. Väinämöinen´s search for a wife is a central element in many stories, though he never finds one. One of the brides, Aino, drowns herself instead of marrying him. Her brother, having lost a singing contest to Väinämöinen, promised Aino's "hands and feet" in marriage if Väinämöinen would save him from drowning in the swamp into which Joukahainen had been thrown. Rather than submit to this fate, Aino walks into the sea. However, she returns to taunt Väinämöinen as a shapeshifting water spirit. The name Aino means "only". In the original poems she was mentioned as the "only daughter" (aino tytti). 60 000 women in Finland has been named Aino.

The Kartano

2009-04-09T15:34:00.007+01:00

Saari Residency, Finland.

2009-04-02T11:51:00.019+01:00

I am here for 2 months to work on drawings and a series of objects - responses to things Finnish.

Teaching

2008-08-12T07:29:00.010+01:00

I am back in Cape Town, teaching third year drawing at Stellenbosch University's Visual Arts department.

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FMC residency, Belgium

2008-08-12T07:12:00.007+01:00

I am in Belgium for June/July - making lithographs at the Frans Masereel Centre near Antwerp. This is my third working period at the FMC.

Residency in Finland

2008-04-22T17:29:00.013+01:00

I am in Rauma on the West coast of Finland attending Raumars artists´ residency (April/May).

See http://www.collagecityrauma.blogspot.com/ for my project with the local middle and high schools.

Strange things travel with you

2008-03-31T21:34:00.057+01:00

*Photos by Adrienne van Eeden

Press clip

2008-03-26T07:42:00.004Z

Die Burger 25 March 2008

Installing "Strange things travel with you" (2)

2008-03-13T10:29:00.003Z

Installing "Strange things travel with you" (1)

2008-03-13T09:34:00.003Z

Drawing near

2008-02-25T09:56:00.002Z

Selfportrait as a house

More about my upcoming solo "Strange things travel with you"

2008-02-25T06:17:00.000Z

Drawing is the central axis of my work which unravels the scribbles of its beginnings into customised constellations in which drawing becomes a metaphoric journey. The drawings in this exhibition move between layers of intuition, thought and language, and alternate between the double horizon of absence/presence, speaking/silence and space/place. These themes draw together my conception that drawing is above all an approach: a way of thinking.

When I work I conceive of every gesture as a drawing in a space, whether on paper, or by combining and shaping materials the concern remains the same: I am drawing. The way objects and fragments are set up in a space is similar to setting up relationships between individual lines and traces in a drawing. Each object functions as a drawing within the drawing, like constellations within constellations of material.

I connect the physical and psychological aspects of drawing with journey. There is a direct correlation between travelling across a landscape and the path of a graphic mark which transforms a blank page into an imaginary space. The path of a gesture of one's hand across a page can be traced in the same way we can map our journeys across the landscape of a place. In this sense travel is as much a gesture as drawing is. I tend to understand travel as a gesture that enables one to re-view one's own position socially and politically within a particular geographical locality. In this sense drawing can be used as a tool which allows the mind to wander along the more distant paths of memory and imagination to return with a more acute awareness of the present.

Invite

2008-02-24T18:47:00.000Z

Studio (Bijou, Woodstock)

2008-02-24T18:14:00.000Z

I am currently completing preparations for my next solo exhibition Strange things travel with you. The show comprises of drawings made during resent resedencies in Belgium and Finland as well as a large scale installation based on these drawings.

Drawings

2007-09-26T01:02:00.003+01:00

Room travel

2007-09-26T00:41:00.007+01:00

What if the world... Woodstock, Cape Town, 2007
*All photos by Adrienne van Eeden

Long words on a hot afternoon...

2007-09-25T23:20:00.030+01:00

Long Words on a Hot Afternoon creates a poetic environment in which the process (rather than simply the product) of drawing is challenged. Although the viewer is given very few specific interpretative guidelines, this unravelling or “drawing out” of memories and narratives is echoed by the use of materials such as newspaper, cut-up clothing and embroidery thread.

*All photos by Adrienne van Eeden