ENTWINED

Aukje Boonstra – Ulrike Hora – Grietje van Randen

Exhibition Dates:
Thursday 11 June – Sunday 21 June, 2026
Open 10:00am – 5:00pm daily

Opening Event:
Friday 12 June 2026
5:30pm – 7:30pm

Three Artists engaged with the humble dress and it’s symbolism, through reuse, reimagining, questioning patterns and breaking them.
Connecting in the act of yarning, cutting, printing, painting, stitching, sculpting, firing, lighting. Stories and meaning evolved and were shared in the work – ENTWINED.

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Aukje Boonstra is a textile artist. Ever since her art practice started in the late nineties, she has been fascinated by the process of botanical dyeing and transforming salvaged clothing into sustainable couture.

What people wear can tell us about culture, style, personal taste, history, religion, mourning and celebrating. A uniform tells its own story.

Discarded clothing carries memories from all who have worn them. She transforms these memories into new garments and art works through stitch, being ENWINED with the past and into the future.

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Ulrike Hora is a sculptural ceramicist working in porcelain and stoneware. Her creating process is an evolving story unfolding as she develops her pieces. In this way of ‘making’, her ideas, her concepts and reflections ‘morph‘ into the final work.

To find a ceramic language for ENTWINED she developed her own technique of incorporating discarded threads, knits and weaves into translucent porcelain. The fitted lights highlight the internal structures and reveal the embodied materials.

High temperature firing, in a solar powered kiln, transform her seemingly fragile ‘wet rags’ into thin and strong sculptures. Environmental impact is reduced through repurposing, recycling, reusing, reimagining and entwining.

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Grietje van Randen continuously questions what, why and how, both in relation to the purpose of the work and the materials used in her arts practice. A body of work starts either with (repurposed) materials, a particular technique, something seen or something heard and often results in an analogy to life’s questions, giving the viewer time to pause, become aware or reflect.

The work created for ENTWINED contemplates how a person’s past, culture, family and other connections influence who they are and what they do. Playing with inherited blocks of wood, furniture, stamps, felted jumpers and using a printing press built from recycled materials, Grietje has created a diverse body of work that connects the viewer with Grietje’s life, serious but infused with fun.