About me
"The hurrier I go, the behinder I get" - Lewis Carroll
Hi There! Lovely to meet you. <3
My name is Fleur. I am a visual artist drawn to the quiet work of reconnection, with one another, with the earth, and with ourselves. I sense that the climate crisis and the growing fragility of our (mental) health are not separate wounds, but shared expressions of a deeper estrangement. In a world driven by endless consumption, production, and noise, I choose to slow down.
I work with humble, tactile materials — second-hand fabrics, handmade natural pigments, thread, and paper — allowing them to change through careful, patient gestures. Slowness, manual labor, and attention to detail become gentle acts of resistance, opening space to witness the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary.
My visual language unfolds through natural and mythological symbols, echoing ancient ways of seeing, when stars, trees, and flowers were understood as living presences, woven into stories. Symbolism, to me, speaks directly to the subconscious, where intuition and feeling merge into form. In this space, the boundary between ‘human’ and ‘nature’ softens and dissolves, and we remember that we have always belonged to the same breathing, living world.
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Education
- Associate degree | Arts & Crafts Rotterdam academy | Hogeschool Rotterdam Specialized in Lifestyle Design | 06. 2021
- Propaedeutic year | Fine Arts Willem de Kooning Academie | Hogeschool Rotterdam 11. 2017
Exhibitions
- Project: You are me and me is you | Olmenhorst Art Festival | Oogappel Galerie | Olmenhorst | 06. 2025
- Art collective by Unity in Diversity | Groupexhibition and artfair | De Doelen | Rotterdam | 03. 2025
- As Within As Without | Groupexhibtion, part of the Southcombe barn residency program | Dartmoor, UK | 02. 2025
- Softness is my religion | groupexhibition | Bar Baria | Amsterdam | 01. 2025
- Thuisje Boompje Beestje | Groupexhibition of the 'nestbouwers' | Natuurhistorisch museum Rotterdam | 10. 2024 - 05. 2025
- Project You are me and me is you & a collection of multidisciplinary work | Kunsthuis DEIK | Delft | 09. 2024
- Collection of multidisciplinary work | Unity in Diversity Art market | Art Rotterdam | 02. 2024
- Project: You are me and me is you | Galería Lands | Xela, Guatemala | 08. 2023 – 10.2023
- Project: You are me and me is you | La Wayaka Current art residency | San pedro de Atacama, Chili | 05. 2023
- Collection of multidisciplinary work| De woonkamer van de burgemeester | Rotterdam | 11. 2022 – 01.2023
- Live performance: Slowductivity | Bienal Arte de Cerveira | Portugal | 08. 2022
- Collection of multidisciplinary work | Kunstuitleen | Rotterdam | 04. 2022
- Project: Slowductivity | Dutch Design Week | Eindhoven | 10. 2021
- Project: Slowductivity | Het Archief | Rotterdam | 07. 2021
- Collection of visual work| Mercado de arte de San Angel | Mexico City | 03. 2019 - 04. 2019
Publications
- Artist feature | Suboart magazine | 09. 2024
- Feature in the ‘World of Happinez’ | Happinez Magazine | 11. 2022
- In conversation with Ton Bruining in ‘Uit de kunst’ | Opleiding en ontwikkeling | 09. 2022
- Feature in ‘Get to know the creators’| Profielen Magazine | 09. 2022
- Artist Feature | Hola gwapa | 07. 2019
Awards
- BIS (Best In Show) Award for Slowductivity | Het Archief, 07. 2021.