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Mariëtte Roodenburg
Both, my black and white and colour work find their origin and their meaning in the existing spaces – urban and rural landscapes – that surround me.
I am usually drawn toward a simple pattern of light and shadow, a clear line or –more recently – the magic of certain colour tones. I try to visualize something that is different and personal to me. Mostly, I am moved by a sense of calmness of a place or of a certain moment. It is this sense of tranquility that I try to capture in my photographs.
My father introduced me to photography at an early age. An avid, amateur photographer, he taught me how to set up a makeshift darkroom and how to print my own black and white photographs. I have been using all sorts of cameras and a wide array of makeshift darkrooms ever since.
Originally from Curaçao, I grew up in the Netherlands and moved to Nova Scotia in 2003.
In the Netherlands, I studied art history and archeology at Leiden University, and business management at Delft Business School and Rotterdam University. It took a long detour of more than 14 years – working in venture capital – before I decided to return to the arts and close the circle. In 1996 I was admitted to a three-year, full-time program in creative photography at the Academy Amsterdam, where I studied from 1996 – 1998.
My photographs have been presented at group exhibitions at Fotogram, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (several exhibitions between 1996 and 1998), Atelier Sömmerling, Cologne, Germany (Young Dutch Photography, September 1998), and ViewPoint Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (several group shows and work continuously on display from March 2003 – December 2004). In September 2004 ViewPoint Gallery featured my first solo show: “first impression – landscape photographs of Nova Scotia”. In July 2007, anderson featured my second solo show: Safe Haven, with text by Larry Gaudet. The show coincided with the book launch of Larry Gaudet’s Safe Haven – the Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World, a non-fiction book published by Random House Canada in the summer of 2007.
Currently I am working on two new shows for 2008. The Sherman Hines Museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia will feature “Squares” in September 2008 and Mohr Interieurs in Vught, the Netherlands will feature “IJswater” in December 2008.
Both, my black and white and colour work find their origin and their meaning in the existing spaces – urban and rural landscapes – that surround me.
I am usually drawn toward a simple pattern of light and shadow, a clear line or –more recently – the magic of certain colour tones. I try to visualize something that is different and personal to me. Mostly, I am moved by a sense of calmness of a place or of a certain moment. It is this sense of tranquility that I try to capture in my photographs.
My father introduced me to photography at an early age. An avid, amateur photographer, he taught me how to set up a makeshift darkroom and how to print my own black and white photographs. I have been using all sorts of cameras and a wide array of makeshift darkrooms ever since.
Originally from Curaçao, I grew up in the Netherlands and moved to Nova Scotia in 2003.
In the Netherlands, I studied art history and archeology at Leiden University, and business management at Delft Business School and Rotterdam University. It took a long detour of more than 14 years – working in venture capital – before I decided to return to the arts and close the circle. In 1996 I was admitted to a three-year, full-time program in creative photography at the Academy Amsterdam, where I studied from 1996 – 1998.
My photographs have been presented at group exhibitions at Fotogram, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (several exhibitions between 1996 and 1998), Atelier Sömmerling, Cologne, Germany (Young Dutch Photography, September 1998), and ViewPoint Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (several group shows and work continuously on display from March 2003 – December 2004). In September 2004 ViewPoint Gallery featured my first solo show: “first impression – landscape photographs of Nova Scotia”. In July 2007, anderson featured my second solo show: Safe Haven, with text by Larry Gaudet. The show coincided with the book launch of Larry Gaudet’s Safe Haven – the Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World, a non-fiction book published by Random House Canada in the summer of 2007.
Currently I am working on two new shows for 2008. The Sherman Hines Museum in Liverpool, Nova Scotia will feature “Squares” in September 2008 and Mohr Interieurs in Vught, the Netherlands will feature “IJswater” in December 2008.