What is your specialty, what makes your work unique? Or place your artist's statement.

Michelle van Ketwich makes multidisciplinary works in which she materialises contemporary digital culture by executing it in traditional materials such as ceramics, plaster and paint. Here she finds tension between the material and the digital in terms of temporality; what is digital often comes and goes at rapid speed, while the material has a more eternal energy. Simultaneously, the material objects cannot always be preserved because of their fragility, while the digital seems to live eternally online or in the cloud.
In contrast to the digital origin of the aesthetics Van Ketwich uses in her work, she takes a deliberate part in all steps and the craft of making it. Based both on digital sources, books and films she investigates, as well as personal experiences and interactions, Van Ketwich uses joyous colours, luster and humour not only to their own effect, but also to address subjects that actually have a darker edge. This way, Van Ketwich creates a connection between the mundane and the absurd, the synthetic and the natural, and between digital and material.

- Text by Menno Vuister

What are your ambitions? What do you want to be in five years?

In 5 years I would like to have a fruitful career, a big lovely studio and inspiring people around me.

What is the most important thing you have learned during your studies?

To trust my intuition and that even the things that feel trivial or mundane can influence and inspire the artistic practice.

List of publications / exhibitions / prices / concerts / shows etc.

Upcoming

2021 – HKU Exposure 2021, Fine Art Graduation show, Utrecht, NL

Past

2020 January – Obstructed Recollection, group show, De Nijverheid, Utrecht, NL
2019 April – The First Time Always Hurts, group show, Oudenoord330, Utrecht, NL

Other

2020 Feb - Sept – Certificate of Proficiency at Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand