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| photo Aurélie Bayad, 2025 |
1979 Antwerp, Belgium
Lives and works in Antwerp.
contact: elinewoolpublishing * gmail.com (* is @)
2022 - 2025 Researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp
2001 Graduated, Master in visual arts, KASK Ghent Royal Academy
2020 founder Art Club Borgerhout
2019 started the ongoing art & ecology project Gesamthof, a lesbian garden
2018 founder of Wool Publishing, a platform for shared presentations in the arts
After
graduating in 2001 at KASK Gent, I continued my studies as a volunteer in the botanical garden in Ghent
and I focused on my studio practice. This allowed me to spend some
years travelling abroad and spend quite some time in Tokyo. Since 2004 I live in Antwerp where I have a painting studio, and while I am a painter I also work on a lesbian garden project, I teach art theory and I work on ecology in the visual arts.
My style is rooted in European tradition. My paintings and drawings refer to feminist topics, a critical reading of art history, caring for ecology, understanding nature, questioning the role of art in representation of minorities and working towards more diversity.
The
lesbian gaze is an important aspect of the work. My paintings imagine a diversity in the representation of a lesbian identity including trans and non binary identities. My subjects are not narrowed down to the axes of gender and sexuality, instead they show lots of different identities to open up the concept of what might be 'typical' lesbian and imagine endless personalities.
I like to work in collaborations with other artists, my exhibitions are never solo, but shared events with others. For this purpose I founded Wool Publishing in 2018, a project for shared intersectional art practices. Since 2019 I started to work on a project about restoring ecology in a city garden, working on the various intersections with nature in a garden: gender, class, sexuality, colonialism, economy, cultures are all themes related to the work in the lesbian garden Gesamthof.
I like to work in collaborations with other artists, my exhibitions are never solo, but shared events with others. For this purpose I founded Wool Publishing in 2018, a project for shared intersectional art practices. Since 2019 I started to work on a project about restoring ecology in a city garden, working on the various intersections with nature in a garden: gender, class, sexuality, colonialism, economy, cultures are all themes related to the work in the lesbian garden Gesamthof.
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| Studio view 2020 |
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| Gesamthof, a lesbian garden 2022 |
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