Image credit: Dr Christopher Casteleyn and Dr Sofie Muylle; and Tineke Van der Eecken, Regeneration, 2021. Photography by Duncan Wright.
TINEKE VAN DER EECKEN: TRIBUTARIES
TOURING WITH ART ON THE MOVE 2024-25
Tributaries explores the fibres of flora, fauna, and human systems.
It includes jewellery, small fine metal sculptures, and objects formed by corrosion casting, a process by which resin is injected into animal organs and other biological systems to form moulds of internal spaces.
These objects are placed in dialogue with photographic images and poetry that document the thrum of life and death in environmental arterial systems, connecting root, river, skeleton, and vein. Tributaries is both a contemporary memento mori and a reminder of the constantly changing states of all organic matter, including our own bodies – a testament to the interconnection of human, animal and environment.
Image credit: 1. Dr Christopher Casteleyn and Dr Sofie Muylle; and Tineke Van der Eecken, Sheep snout, 2021 | 2. Dr Christopher Casteleyn and Dr Sofie Muylle; and Tineke Van der Eecken, Regeneration (detail), 2021 | 3. Dr Christopher Casteleyn and Dr Sofie Muylle; and Tineke Van der Eecken, The Disappearing, 2021 | 4. Tineke Van der Eecken, Baby wallaby, 2021. All photography by Duncan Wright.
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EXHIBITION DETAILS FOR VENUES
| ARTIST | Tineke Van der Eecken |
| MEDIA | Jewellery, sculpture, photography and text. Several sculptures are fragile and require careful handing |
| INSTALLATION | Between 6 – 8 cabinets with Perspex hoods (provided with exhibition), framed objects and photographic prints on aluminium. |
| MARKETING | Marketing Kit (includes e-invitation template, artwork for hard copy invitation, media release, promotional images, logos and acknowledgements) |
| INTERPRETATION MATERIALS | Program (available for free) Didactic panels |
| TOUR DURATION | Available March 2024 – September 2025 |
| COST SHARE | ART ON THE MOVE Members: $4,000 (inc. GST) Non Members: $4,500 (inc. GST) |
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Image credit: Tineke Van der Eecken. Photography by Nancye Miles-Tweedie
Tineke Van der Eecken is a Belgian-born, Australian artist whose practice explores narratives of place. From her geographical and biological roots in Belgium to her home in Western Australia on the rim of the vast Indian Ocean, the scope of her narrative takes in oceans, wetlands and ancient reefs, then delves deeply inward to the internal places of physical bodies. Her concepts are articulated through exceptionally crafted jewellery and sculptures, and objects that sit between these categories, as well as photography.
Tineke was introduced to corrosion casting as an Artist in Residence at SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia in 2012, and was recently awarded a Minderoo Foundation Artist Fund grant to experiment with the technique at the Minderoo Exmouth Research Laboratory. She has exhibited widely and is also a published author and the President of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Western Australia. Tributaries was originally presented at Mundaring Art Centre as part of the 2021 Indian Ocean Craft Triennial (IOTA).
TOUR ITINERARY
2024
March 22 – May 4
Carnarvon Library and Gallery
May 17 – June 20
Goldfields Art Centre
July 5 – August 28
Museum of the Great Southern
September 6 – October 12
Katanning Art Gallery
2025
May 23 – June 29
Saltwater Busselton
HOST THIS EXHIBITION AT YOUR VENUE
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This project has been made possible through the Regional Exhibition Touring Boost managed by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries, supported by Royalties for Regions and delivered by ART ON THE MOVE and the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
