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Risja Steeghs

MA work

MA work

  • Elbow

    Elbow, 2018
    Silk
    160 x 100 cm | Photographer: Risja Steeghs

  • Ebow, close-up

    Ebow, close-up, 2018
    silk
    160 x 100 cm | Photographer: Risja Steeghs

  • The scent of my insides, close-up

    The scent of my insides, close-up, 2018
    Besheets, canvas and paint
    200 x 260 cm | Photographer: Risja Steeghs

  • Drip drip drip

    Drip drip drip, 2018
    Bedsheets, cheescloth, paint and pins
    140 x 200 cm | Photographer: Risja Steeghs

  • Forever a flower

    Forever a flower, 2018
    Performance
    N.A. | Photographer: Emma Bang

I See Sheets of Me

I See Sheets of me is an installation of several textile works hanging in space by Risja Steeghs. Interested in the idea of the body as a universal landscape, the artist created several works representing different layers of the body's journey becoming space. Especially focussing on the moment in between wake and sleep where we become aware of our body's presence, our sensations and our material form in space.

The artist has spend her time at the Royal College of Art working and researching on the bed as an extension of the body and a metaphor for incessant rebirth. She is interested in creating works which evoke a similar intimate and haptic relationship as we have when we find ourselves in the safe space of our bedroom.

The works will be activated through small performative acts by the artist herself on the PV.   Through use of projections, water and oil, she breathes life into the textile pieces, so that they become living sculptures in space. 

Performances happen June 21, 6-8 throughout and July 1st, 6-8 throughout

Programme
Sculpture

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Arts & Humanities

    Programme

    MA Sculpture, 2018

  • Risja Steeghs is an artist working along the lines of sculpture, installation and performance. Her work focusses on the bed as a metaphor for the body’s becoming and its incessant qualities of rebirth. Within her work she explores notions of transformation, rebirth and how we as humans occupy space in this world using textile and her own body as main materials in her practice.

    She is interested in creating artwork and spaces which evoke a haptic, soft and sensuous relationship between viewer and artwork, often inviting them to enter personal spaces or putting herself in vulnerable states in front of an audience. 

  • Experience

  • Assisting Monster Chetwynd, London, 2018; Assisting Mette Sterre for An Evening of Performances, DRAF 10th Anniversary, Koko, London 2018; Residency at DESPINA, Rio de Janeiro, 2016

  • Exhibitions

  • Too Much Information, Seventeen Gallery, London, 2018; MY BIG ORCHID , Safehouse 2, London, 2018; WHIPPED UP, Kunstraum, London, 2018; Ruins of a past life, Galerie de Zeemeermin, Steyl, 2015; Honor your ancestors, NDSM Treehouse Gallery, Amsterdam, 2014; #SUPERCOMMUNITY, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2017; Uncooked Culture, Outsider Art Galerie, Amsterdam, 2016; A Sea of Sheets, DESPINA, Rio de Janeiro, 2015; Amuse, Galerie Wilms, Venlo, 2015; Platform for Unasked Art, Amsterdam, 2014; Midsummer Night Exhibition, Amsterdam Outsider Art, Amsterdam 2014; Circus Terminal, West Bank Gallery, London, 2013

  • Publications

  • One Barefoot Square, RAW Vision magazine, #58, 1; Refuse Magazine, #1, 2017, 3; MORE THAN JUST MY SKIN, GURLS TALK, 2017, 1; Eva von Stockhausen, Out of Art, #1, 2016, 4; FLAT MAGAZINE, #1, 2016, 3; Nick Muller, Het beste van HP/De Tijd, HP/De Tijd, 2014, 1; Amber Imrie-Situnayaki, Venison Magazine, #3, 2014, 1

Registered Office: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU