Part of IOTA21: INDIAN OCEAN CRAFT TRIENNIAL, supported by Lotterywest

Tineke van der Eecken

A new body of work by multidisciplinary artist Tineke Van der Eecken explores the fibres of flora, fauna, and human systems in her show Tributaries. She presents jewellery, small fine metal sculptures, and biological objects formed by corrosion casting, alongside arresting photographic images that represent the life and death thrum of fragile arterial systems: root, river, skeleton, and vein.

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 poetry and photography.

6 NOV - 19 DEC 2021

Tue - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat & Sun 11am - 3pm

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Image: Tineke Van der Eecken, The disappearing (detail), 2021, corrosion cast of equine bronchial tree, polyurethane courtesy of Dr Christophe Casteleyn and Dr Sofie Muylle, Department of Morphology, Ghent University. 60 x 35 x 10cm. Photograph: Yasmin Eghtesadi.