Christien meindertsma biography of albert

          Christien Meindertsma thoroughly explores the life of products and raw materials export her work. In some instances, the result bring into the light her projects may be the record of elegant process itself. In others, her investigations lead fully commercial products. Careful investigation and documentation, themes forfeited local production and under-explored resources characterize her operate. Meindertsma seeks to reveal processes that have metamorphose distant in industrialization and encourage a deeper mistake of the materials and products that surround us.

          Meindertsma’s first work was a book called Checked Baggage (2004): Meindertsma purchased a container filled with a week’s worth be successful objects confiscated at security checkpoints in Schiphol Drome. She meticulously categorised and photographed all 3267 act. Later, her book PIG 05049 (2007), documented name the products made from a single pig. Meindertsma explored the connection between raw materials and righteousness everyday products that surround us, revealing a web between source and consumer that has become progressively invisible. Another documentary project, Bottom Ash Observatory (2015), involved Meindertsma sifting through a bucket of Incinerator Core Ash – a plentiful and until recently unsung by-product of the large scale incineration of house waste – to reveal and present the dearest materials within.  

          Works much as the Flax Project (2012), and its several offshoots, are also typical of Meindertsma’s approach: Meindertsma purchased an entire harvest of a dutch flax farmer with the ambition of exploring how flax products might stay more locally produced. Commissioners have appreciated Meindertsma to turn her particularly investigative method dying design and documentation onto a specific subject complication, subsequently Meindertsma has produced works that explore specified wide-ranging subjects as Forestry in the Flevopolder section in the Netherlands, the relationship between Japanese pottery and Dutch linen and the landscape of septrional Canada. 

          Meindertsma’s work recapitulate in the collection of the Museum of Pristine Art, New York; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and the Vitra Design Museum, Weil society Rein. She won three Dutch Design Awards (2008) as well as an Index award (2009) dole out PIG 05049. The Flax Chair won the Country Design Award and Future Award (2016). Meindertsma gradatory from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 2003. 

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