Claudy Jongstra

Woven Skin B14-16

2018

Materials: Drenthe Heath and merino wool, mohair, silk, cotton and linen, naturally-dyed with organic pigments including madder, cochineal, logwood, St John’s wort and walnut. The panels are hung with oak bark tanned leather strips in steel frames. After three years of traveling and manifesting itself the time has come to say goodbye to Woven Skin in its original form as an art installation and nomadic forum consisting of 60 hanging panels to be placed together in changing constellations and harboring essential global dialogue. Jongstra’s urgent message demanding attention for topics concerning ecology, colour and community will be continued in a new work of art and concept that will be revealed at the end of 2021. Galerie Fontana...

Materials: Drenthe heath, merino, silk, mohair, cotton pigments: walnut, cochineal, onion, madder Created with Claudy Jongstra’s signature Drenthe Heath Sheep wool and dyed in a sub...

Material: Drenthe heath, merino, silk, mohair, cotton pigments: walnut, cochineal, onion, madder Created with Claudy Jongstra’s signature Drenthe Heath Sheep wool and dyed in a subt...

Materials: Drenthe Heath and merino wool, mohair, silk, cotton and linen, naturally-dyed with organic pigments including madder, cochineal, logwood, St John’s wort and walnut. The panels are hung with oak bark tanned leather strips in steel frames. After three years of traveling and manifesting itself the time has come to say goodbye to Woven Skin in its original form as an art installation and nomadic forum consisting of 60 hanging panels to be placed together in changing constellations and harboring essential global dialogue. Jongstra’s urgent message demanding attention for topics concerning ecology, colour and community will be continued in a new work of art and concept that will be revealed at the end of 2021. Galerie Fontana...

Materials: Drenthe heath, merino, silk, mohair, cotton pigments: walnut, cochineal, onion, madder Created with Claudy Jongstra’s signature Drenthe Heath Sheep wool and dyed in a sub...

Materials: Wool Merino, Drenth Heath, Raw Silks, Cotton Gauze Jongstra embraces the full potential of life on earth by benefitting from the wonderful material of sheep wool and by distilling her own colour palette using ancient dyers crops and almost lost handcraft skills. At the same time she is incessantly striving to enhance biodiversity, to safeguard cultural heritage and to transfer secret knowledge to younger generations. In 2022, the year that activist Claudy Jongstra launches two new essential initiatives as part of her ongoing mission - the nomadic Guernica de la Ecologia and the foundation of the Phi School - her most recent art pieces seem to want to express a new urgency. The electrifying pink of Fuchsia Hybrida...

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