Tjibbe Hooghiemstra
Tjibbe Hooghiemstra is a Dutch artist who has built up many connections in Ireland, including a stint as artist in residence at Annaghmakerrig, and the Cill Rialaig Project in County Kerry.
He regularly teaches at the University of Ulster and the National College of Art and Design. His work is a considered philosophical engagement with the landscape. The landscape is not taken as established; it is looked at, scrutinized, and re-worked. The quality of the Irish environment, the water, the light and the rain, are all dealt with, recorded and layered into his work. This is an artist for whom materials are important. Paper is not just a support, it is an integral part of his artworks. His use of collage is also crucial, and as the viewer can see, it represents a delicate balance between losing and finding the image in each of the drawings and paintings.
Tjibbe Hooghiemstra works in Ireland and the Netherlands.
His works are included in the collections of:
Stededlijk Museum, Amsterdam, Teylers Museum, Harlem
Tate Gallery, London, National Collection of Contemporary
Drawing, Limerick, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
"What the work conveys is a quiet, attentive sensibility and the layering of time. For example, he views landscape not in a conventional pictorial way but as a fragmentary composite of the marks made by the many generations who have lived on it. His work is almost obtuse in its wilful obliqueness, but it gains on each repeated viewing and many of the drawings are quiet beautiful"
- Aidan Dunne
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