
Twice upon a time my mother gave birth to a daughter at Overtoom 123 in Amsterdam.
The third daughter was born at Keizersgracht 55.
I was the first born.
That all happened the
29th of September 1980.
After some high school lowness and highness.
I started to study Psychology, imitating my dad.
In 2005 I got my Master of Science degree at the University of Amsterdam. While studying psychology my friends asked me why I wasn't doing something more creative. I thought they really had a point.
So I tried the 'Orientation Course' at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.That felt like a perfect, though difficult, fit.
At 'Artless' I really made my first relatively bigger steps in Art.
In 2005 I cofounded 'The Kattenbak Collective': an artist collective. At the Kattenbak I could do what I wanted. And so I did what I wanted. The time at the Kattenbak really made me grow. But in 2007 I felt I needed to focus more and differently on my own work. At The Sandberg Institute, the Fine Arts department, I'm doing so. Hopefully at the end of August 2009 I'll get my second Master degree.
Highly personal though relatively universal topics are at issue in my work. Being an artist and a psychologist the question mark is my tool. I don’t mind being rigid in this to myself nor the viewer of my work. To get the question as clear as possible I mostly use performances. Those performances however seldom are the result. More often they are my starting point.