Blog
Poet for Sudan
Sudanese-Australian poet and friend Afeif Ismail invited me to take part in a poetry event in protest of the current armed conflict devastating the country. The event took place online on Saturday 8 July 2023.
ARBOREA Sends Ripples Through South West
'Arborea' had a successful first run at The Painted Tree Gallery and a creative workshop hosted by Southern Forest Arts. Next, the Exhibition will be featured at Gallery 152 in York from 30 September to 29 October 2023, for the 2023 York Festival.
ARBOREA – Trees You’ve Never Seen
I can finally announce my new solo exhibition Arborea, to be held at the Painted Tree Gallery in Northcliffe, Southern Forest Arts, between 20 May and 25 June 2023. The exhibition will also show at Pantechnica Gallery during the 2023 York Festival 21 September - 1 October 2023.
"WATER - loop" an international exhibition in Belgium
This March I have the honour to present new work from my Minderoo Mid - Career Artist Residency in “WATER - loop”, for WARP Contemporary Art Belgium.
Tributaries: Artist Talk and Workshop in Rockingham
I am really pleased that Tributaries, before heading to the regions with Art On The Move, will be showing in Rockingham. Rockingham Arts Centre has recently been renovated under the directorship of Jude Vander Merwe and is still close enough for Perth and Fremantle audiences, as well as people living in the Peel region.
"Belgium is still where one foot stands while another lands": Talking poetry with Molly Schmidt
The interview was broadcast on the ABC 720 Saturday 17 December 2022 at 6am as part of 'Saturday Breakfast'. Listen now
TRIBUTARIES exhibition at Rockingham Arts Centre
Opens Friday 3 February 6.30pm, runs until Sunday 19 February 2023.
Opening by Dr Oron Catts, Director, Symbiotica, UWA.
TRIBUTARIES On The Move
Art On The Move (AOTM) has selected the TRIBUTARIES exhibition to tour around Western Australia and beyond from 2023 to 2025. AOTM plays a critical role in connecting art, people, and place. Galleries and Museums around Western Australia.
A good year, naturally
2022 has been a stellar year, which started with my marriage to Adam Bennett, and sharing our love in a sublime wedding celebration. It inspired me to create wedding rings incorporating tree bark and other aspects of the natural world.
A wonderful act.
Dr Nandi Chinna launched 'A Place to Land', new poetry collection by
Tineke Van der Eecken on 13 November 2022 at Bar Orient, High Street, Fremantle. ]
'A Place to Land' poetry collection soon out
Mulla Mulla Press will be publishing my first full length poetry collection 'A Place to Land'.
The book will be launched on 13 November 3pm at Bar Orient in Fremantle with a launch address by Nandi Chinna.
Books will be available for sale at the launch, and after.
All welcome.
Threadlike and light
Tineke creates hidden landscapes within bodies making jewellery from inside out.
Minderoo Foundation Residency in Exmouth
I am thrilled to have been awarded a Minderoo Foundation Residency as part of their 2022 Artist Fund. In September 2022 I will be staying in Exmouth to lay the groundwork for developing a new body work towards 2024.
This is Tributary work
Three years in the making, and now it is here: Tributaries, an exhibition of works that connect with Western Australia. Before and during the pandemic I have explored the landscapes within and out there, the unique flora and fauna in Western Australia.
We are waterways. TRIBUTARIES exhibition opens soon
I walk, sense, trace the changes.
I once followed a river and with each crossing of one of its tributaries, the landscape grew as a character teaching me about my internal landscape, and how to navigate human relationships.
It changed me.
Disturbingly beautiful?
In 'Tributaries', a solo exhibition at MAC, what you'd see may be as beautiful as it may be disturbing. Through wearable jewellery, objects and photographs I am depecting the fragility of the nature around us in Western Australia. Without prejudice - for I too am a 'settler'.
Published in Poetry d'Amour 2021
This and other poems in the current edition of Poetry d'Amour published by
WA Poets Publishing
Full-Circle with Stitch 'n Bitch at Ellis House
In FULL CIRCLE I reconnect with the early, playful beginnings of working in textiles and copper wire, in using recycled materials connecting to the home, women’s things such as ovens to bake in and jewellery to adorn ourselves, honoring the friendships and creative camaraderie that have grown over the years with the women in this collective.
Ros Spencer Poetry Award Finalist
I am a great believer in bringing your work to a professional standard before submitting it. I must admit that for a number of years I did not think my work was 'up to standard'. So I did not submit anything.
A gem older than the Indian Ocean
This gem is the centre of a series of works I am preparing for Counterpoint, an exhibition in the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial, to be held at Stala Contemporary 3-19 November 2021.