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About me
Born in 1963 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands, I moved to Amsterdam to study Dutch Literature at the age of seventeen. I still live there, with my husband and our two sons.
Most of my art consists of photos and videos that I make on my journeys through town. A bit like Alice in Wonderland, I see extraordinary things in the daily world. I try to capture that world and bring it to life with a small camera that fits right into my pocket. 'Objets trouvés' like in Dada: without editing my work, just by pointing and shooting (but with special attention to framing and point of view), I show the poetry, humour, surrealism and absurdity of life as I see it, hopefully leaving lots of room for your own imagination.
Right now I am working on my city garden.
I also draw, paint and make music.
Work
• Atelier Open (from 2011): visual artist, graphic designer, co-curator
• The Oneminutes (from 2007): video artist, workshop leader, coordinator, curator
• Z! Amsterdam Magazine for the Homeless (from 2007): photographer, video artist, writer
• Photographer for Y&R milan (2011), WWF print campaign that ended up as a finalist at the New York Festivals and was featured in Lüzer's Int'l ARCHIVE Vol.5-2011
• Independent fine artist (from 2007): photography, video, poetry, painting
• Free lance workshop leader (from 2009)
• Free lance graphic designer (from 1999)
• ROC van Amsterdam (from 1988 until 2007), Dutch as a Second Language: teacher, mentor, assessor
Education
• Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam (graduated 1999): Graphic Design and New Media
• SVA (School of Visual Arts) New York City 1997-1998: Computer Arts, Web design, Digital Video, Digital Audio, Computer Illustration (Photoshop, Illustrator, 3d), Animation
• University of Amsterdam 1981 - 1988: First degree teacher, Majored in Dutch Modern Literature, Minored in Italian Language and Literature, Film Studies, Dutch as a Second Language
• Murmellius Gymnasium, Alkmaar 1975 - 1981
For Sale
Some of my work is available on print, books, postcards, dvd's, t-shirts and more. Have a look around here. If there is anything else you'd like to order, you can always contact me through mjaquet@xs4all.nl.
www.maartjejaquet.nl
found art • video art • exhibitions • workshops • graphic design • for sale • other stuff
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Contacts (227)
Groups (50)
- The secret art of Graffiti Removal 3,243 photos, 650 members
- Beautiful is Boring 96,949 photos, 4,644 members
- waterdrops 104,447 photos, 23,692 members
- Strange Meetings/Encuentros Curiosos 2,111 photos, 109 members
- Green Smile Club 11,961 photos, 1,625 members
- Vang een beeld 727 photos, 139 members
- not all there 265 photos, 181 members
- Parallel realities 1,074 photos, 50 members
- C U L T U U R P A R T I J 103 photos, 28 members
- A comme....., B....... 1,063 photos, 120 members
- BEELDENSTORM 210 photos, 32 members
- Beeldenpark Friesland 285 photos, 3 members
- The New Accidentally Erotic 390 photos, 135 members
- Switch Face (Hidden Faces All Around Us) 1,629 photos, 400 members
- Looks Like a Map 208 photos, 29 members
- MIRE magazine 19,355 photos, 993 members
- Unintended Art! 687 photos, 48 members
- que lindo lixo 736 photos, 55 members
- bitches brew 144,146 photos, 2,745 members
- incidental painting 1,829 photos, 118 members
- found cubism 166 photos, 29 members
- cursorpin 11 photos, 30 members
- Literary Reference in Pictures: post one, comment one (or two!) 30,559 photos, 1,986 members
- Urbanjunglism - Urban jungle minimalism 4,084 photos, 634 members
- ✂ poésie trouvée ✂ 3,546 photos, 249 members
- Stadsarchief Amsterdam 14,289 photos, 177 members
- denoting absence 3,921 photos, 191 members
- one minute zen 132 photos, 19 members
- festival of brown 3,220 photos, 153 members
- poezie verbeeld 657 photos, 51 members
- La fille du père Noël (Post one Award all) 1,539 photos, 43 members
- blissful nothingness 4,802 photos, 158 members
- glue glyphs 425 photos, 57 members
- GROUND RULES 1,310 photos, 97 members
- Media Me Video 87 photos, 87 members
- Found Paintings 4,209 photos, 193 members
- The Pool of Garbage 389 photos, 95 members
- Kijk een kunst! 682 photos, 37 members
- ... mitades / meitats / halves 716 photos, 115 members
- places revisited 1,560 photos, 94 members
- Real Life Commenting 158 photos, 19 members
- Dropped Stuff 2,896 photos, 226 members
- Pavement Patterns Museum 1,997 photos, 132 members
- visual echo (comment with images, not words) 14,726 photos, 1,520 members
- i shoot windows 3,755 photos, 216 members
- naturally occurring collages 186 photos, 26 members
- Two Weeks Notice 5 photos, 200 members
- I Hold in my Hand 693 photos, 75 members
- Natureville 420 photos, 19 members
- International Society for Wondrous & Ecstatic Realness on Video 875 photos, 182 members
Galleries (16)
- (fe)male 2 2 photos
- the woods 3 7 photos
- the moon 7 photos
- the woods 2 18 photos
- stairways to heaven 16 photos
Testimonials (3)
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GALERIEopWEG says:
"Maartje heeft andere ogen.
Haar kaders zijn grenzenloos."10th February, 2009
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kees en keetje says:
"she is very dear to me too, as she promised me some pictures and she actually had them developed and delivered on my doormat in a beautiful decorated envelope.
on top of that i enjoy her photographs enormously especially as she sees things in other things, things most people do not see. so she really is a "good-looker"."16th August, 2008
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maha. says:
"she's a dear for me
the first contact was she
the first comments written by her
she has such an interesting imagination
that is always for my help :)
she has such unbelieveble attention
always different than others in her shot
she creates things from nothing
Good luck and God bless you"17th October, 2007
- Name:
- Maartje Jaquet
- Joined:
- June 2007
- Hometown:
- Egmond aan Zee
- Currently:
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- I am:
- Female and Taken
- Occupation:
- artist
- Website:
- maartje jaquet