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Part of my designs are now available in the WIHH Gallery, Reguliersdwarsstraat 73 in Amsterdam. Open Tuesday till Saturday 12.00 -20.00.

You are welcome to visit my workspace in Amsterdam. Visits only on appointments. If you are interested in a work or a tailor-made sustainable garment; please fill in the box below. Or give up your e-mail for the latest events and exhibitions.

July 23 - How to pimp up your jeans demo @culture vitrine DeTanker  Clothing exchange, record fair, Kiki face & body art, flash-hairdresser Anja, and upcycling denim Pixelpolly. More info about this event on Facebook.

Nice that you are interested in my world of mystic shades, funky colors, and crazy lines. I am a Dutch painter, textile artist, and upcycler. Since 1990 I am working with charcoal, graphite, and paint. Around the year 2000, I started also working on a computer with a pen tablet. Since 2010, I extended my work field with textiles and applied art. The characteristics of my work are artisanal, small scale, and neo-folkloristic.

The name Pixelpolly was invented in a spontaneous mood while working on the computer with timelines, filters, and effects. (Pixel Polly is a scattering, exploding effect in Adobe After Effects). Work has been shown at the linen museum Bussemakerhuis in Borne, the National Theater Hall in Utrecht (paintings & video walls), the Museum of resistance in Amsterdam (installation), at the Dutch sustainable Fashion Week & during the annual Museum Night of Rotterdam. 

- Creative substitute teacher primary schools
- Surviving the lockdown, Covid1984 collection
- Photoshoot for PulpdeLuxe Magazine     Photographer @jobboersmaphotography & model @vivavaleriya 

Jan - Dec - creative substitute teacher on primary schools
October - Workshop upcycling textile waste Secondary school
July - The upcycled denim doll is part of the exhibition @KRIMPCLUB 
June 23 - Upcycled vintage demo and products garden Mirror cente r @ we make the city in Amsterdam
April 14 - @Othergroundmarket OT301 Amsterdam 

21 December  MONSTER sale Rooftop Art Market Jack Amsterdam
22 + 23 September Art route Oostelijke eilanden:  Open Oost! 
1 + 15 September pop-up garage expo @Postjeskade Popup garage expo in my great temporary atelier @Postjeskade23 Amsterdam.

I was so happy to host Teguh Hartanto (silkscreen prints), Nissim Men (city portraits), Irene Janze (installations), Tijmen Meijer (3D interactive) & Quintus Glerum (robotic creature). Music performance by The Poofters Froth Wyoming plans ahead.

The textile sculpture was exhibited on a bed. The bed was decorated with text & drawings, accomplished by students from the St. Joost Academie Breda.

It was holding the book " Art & Lies" by Jeanette Winterson. Besides the bed, an old overhead projector was placed with the intro text from this book. It explains the alienation and the timelessness of art:

The nature of a work of art

is not to be a part, nor yet

a copy of the real world,

but a world in itself,

independent, complete, autonomous

and to possess it fully

you must enter that world,

conform to its laws,

and ignore for the time the beliefs,

aims, and particular conditions

which belong to you

in the other world of reality.

(Oxford lectures on poetry: Professor Bradley in the year 1901)

June - workshop upcycling textile waste @ the Refugees Food Festival Final Party De Ruimte Amsterdam    

7 December - Street art performance Trash fashion.

Location the futuristic station Arnhem. This event was part of the traveling exhibition FACE TIME of foundation "Kunst en Cultuur in Beweging". The theme was Identity in society. de public space performance was supported by Awearness Fashion. Our waste-culture has a devastating effect on our planet earth. The garment industry is one of the biggest polluters, its impact on our globe is disastrous. It was an interactive performance staged by Eco-nymphs dressed up in trash-fashion: garments and accessories all made of waste textiles. The intention was to give the traveler a loving but sustainable message with sweet music, hand kisses, perfume, and eco-glitter. Warning: this show is not visible for those who don't believe in fairy tales!