For this week, I have chosen to research the Dutch artist, Marjolein Burbank. Marjolein’s work moves between textile art and collage art using various materials that can be stitched through. Burbank takes old portraits and paintings and extends the image in an innovative way that deals with issues such as feminism, gender, discrimination, and much more. She would find inspiration from the world around her as well as from her experiences having lived in 26 different countries. Burbank started as a quilter and would make traditional-style quilts as presents for her mom and dad who would ask for only handmade gifts for their birthdays. At the time of her living in Asia, being a traditional quilter no longer satisfied her creative mind as the art there stimulated her to make her own art. She became interested in modern art and began to develop her own style of making fabric art. Marjolein’s big textile portraits took part in exhibitions in Bolivia, Austria, and Thailand.
drawing into space 