Jordy van den Nieuwendijk: Future Picture

3-hour workshop – Future ✸ Picture with Jordy van den Nieuwendijk
Monday 8th November 18:00-21:00 GMT

About Workshop

The workshop will have an emphasis on drawing.

In this workshop, you will play with the idea that instead of getting inspired by Art History, we try and get inspired by Art Future. What will our own work, or any work, look like ten years, hundred years, or even a thousand years from now? We try and make a timeline of personal favourite works of our own, or of art history, and try and extend this timeline by hundreds of years. It’s all speculation and imagination.

What participants could take from this, that it maybe creates a focus of where, as an artist or maker, you see yourself going, and instead of focussing on what has been made in the past, focus on what has not yet been made in the future.

The outcome will be a format of a timeline of drawings. There will be a puzzle solvable via google, wiki arts and wikipedia research.

All levels and backgrounds are welcome.

About Workshop Host: 

Jordy van den Nieuwendijk (b. 1985) is a Dutch artist currently living and working in Melbourne. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague mid 2011, where he held a funeral and memorial service for his then alter-ego ‘Superoboturbo’.

Through painting, Jordy explores fundamental objects of everyday life. Working with primary colour palettes and simplified shape structures, he has a talent for examining subject matter in series that innovate inside carefully controlled boundaries. While freeing himself from the choice between abstract or figurative image forms, he creates a field of tension reinforced by the timeless character of his work. His tendency towards this style of painting could be described as new purism. He has had solo exhibitions in Amsterdam (De Voorkamer), Rotterdam (Kunsthal), Düsseldorf (Ninasagt), London (Public Gallery) and New York (Moiety).

As a commercial illustrator, he has worked on projects for numerous clients such as Apple, American Express, Dropbox, Hermés, Jacquemus, The New York Times, Rimowa, Vogue and WeTransfer. Always injecting elements of fun and playfulness into his editorial work, he maintains a truly unique and discernible approach.

Jordy’s work walks a charming and endearing line between the mature and naive. Often (if not always) it conveys an underlying optimism which is assuredly refreshing in our contemporary culture. Jordy is represented by agents Monsieur l'Agent (Paris) and Big Active (London).

You can see more of Jordy's work here.