sort by

filter by


2049


2048

2047


2046


2045

2044

2043

2042


2041


2040


2039

2038


2037

2036


2035


2034

2033

2032

2031


2030

2029

2028

2027


2026


2025



























































2020

Bachelor Fine Arts

2020

Ellis Driessen

Ellis Driessen

As a visual artist and writer, I am fascinated by the physical presence of people and the relationship they have with the immediate environment. I conduct my artistic research in physical places. I walk, and make connections with myself through my environment; inversions, observations and physical movement. The resulting -written walks- are the visual and written fundament of my work. With a diversity of materials, I am searching for ways to visualize recurring themes such as transience, vulnerability and the physical. By incorporating forms and colors of human-looking aspects in my work, I play with recognition and alienation of her own physical being at the same time.

Two years ago, I began to use walking as a research method; an artistic study in which I reflect on my environment and my position as a human being and an artist on the basis of my own identity. I use self-reflection, observation, and physical exercise to establish connections within myself and with my environment. I based my thesis on two scientific articles. The first article is ‘Hoezo verbonden met de natuur’ (How are we connected with nature?) by Chris Elzinga (2007). Among the topics he addresses are why we, as human beings, feel less and less connected with nature and what this barrier causes, such as the impact of technological developments, ego-consciousness, and anthropocentrism. The second article, or the ‘walking journal’, is ‘The Walking Seminar: Embodied research in emergent Anthoropocene Landscapes’ (Christian Ernsten, Nick Shepherd, and Dirk-Jan Visser, 2018). It is a one-time publication describing three ‘Walking Seminars’. The article consists of factual and scientific texts, alternated with narrative and personal texts. The core of the seminars produced by the author is the use of walking as a method, and the interface of landscape and history, in which the contemplation of time, materiality, and memory also plays a part. Because of the themes they address, both articles are particularly suited to the study I am conducting as a research method. I will therefore quote both articles and use them as a frame of reference. I will link this to the personal ‘written walks’ I will be taking which also serve as the foundation for my visual art.




















































































































































1935



1929

1928

1927


1926


1925

1924


1923

1922


1921


1920


1919

1918

1917

1916


1915


1914

1913


1912

1911


1909


1908


1907

1906

1905

1904


1903


1902

1901


1900

1899


1897


1896


1894

1893

1892


1891


1890


1889

1888


1887

1886


1885


1884

1883

1882

1881


1880

1879

1878

1877


1876


1875

1874


1873

1872


1871


1870


1869

1868

1867

1866


1865


1864

1863


1862

1861


1860

1859


1858


1857

1856

1855

1854


1853


1852

1851


1850

1849


1848

1847


1846


1845

1843

1842


1841


1840


1839

1838


1837

1836


1835


1834

1833

1832

1831


1829

1828

1827



1824


Maastricht Institute of Arts