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Mia van der Burg’s practice unfolds in multi-year periods, each devoted to a specific theme and material language. Earlier series drew on fragments from antiquity and, later, nature transformed through photography. Her recent focus on the polder reflects an interest in humanity’s reshaping of land. In Old Gold (2024), inspired by a trip to Ireland and the ban on peat extraction, van der Burg reimagines peat—once the island’s “old gold”—as a symbol of memory, transformation, and endurance.
Machteld van Joolingen, a Rotterdam-based artist and jewelry maker, trained as a goldsmith and graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Her practice explores the intersection of art and jewelry, drawing on folklore, folk art, and traditional costume. Since 2005, she has transformed fleeting news images into enduring forms, using motifs of leaves, tiles, and flowers to merge ornament with current events. Her works—brooches, necklaces, and tile tableaux—reflect on the boundary between private and public life.
Together, their works reveal a shared sensitivity to transformation—of space, material, and meaning—rooted in observation and quiet reflection.
