Antje E Rook
textile work, mixed media, embroidery
Antje always was fascinated by artistic expression and started with stone carving in 1990, which she carried on with since 2010. Having moved from Germany to the UK in 2006, Portland was the perfect place to improve her stone carving skills. Around 2010 she changed to textile work. Inspired by the beauty of her environment and her fascination with colours and textures of different fabrics, she taught herself sewing and embroidery and produced her first textile work, a series of imaginative women. These were inspired by her feminist view on the world, which still reflects in her work. Antje uses a multitude of techniques, applique, fabric manipulation, free motion embroidery, sculptural embroidery, doll making, hand embroidery, printing, dyeing and painting on textiles. She is interested in exploring life's circumstances and challenges through art, preferable in longer projects. He previous work includes - the home project, the exploration of what home means for different people, based on her own experiences and in collaboration with other artists. - the virus project, a long term work about dealing with the covid pandemic, based on her and her husbands experience of being vulnerable persons and shielding for almost 2 years. - various works about domestic violence and sexual abuse - works about migration, refugees and finding a new place - work about women's issues she believe that making art has the following purposes : having a voice and express yourself, be political, create beauty and heal.
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- Website: antjerook.com