Nathalie Vanheule's Friends

artist and curator of PONY ATTACK

Program / Degree: 2 x master in fine arts, option graphic design, experimental typogrophy and illustration and master in threedimensionaldesign, scenography

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Drawing, Installation, Painting, Performance, Sculpture

I am...: creating drawings, paintings, installations, sculptures
and performances. I always start from a theme that I
find in a drawing that I make...
I make a total installation of a space when I have an
exhibition, with objects, sculptures and drawings or
paintings that refer to eachother and build their own
story.

About my artwork: My theme is the appearance of bright and shiny things,
while they are actually bad and dark things, things
with a hidden story, message. I create a world in an
world you see at the first time. But it is a twisted,
strange world, with own meanings and values.
What you don't see is the most frightened, the most
anxious...
Its about inner human relations and how twisted they
can be.
I show a slice of the world we like to make
ourselves...
In my work you see light and happy colours. At the
first sight you see a nice and beautiful world, but
if you look some longer, you see there are strange
actions, things that happens in a hidden corner of the
smile.
My work is about how we fake beauty. How we try to
make ourselves better and brighter... how we keep up
appearances...
You see that in my sculptures, drawings and
performances or installations.
I always start from a theme and than I go further to
realise my thougths in images or actions.
The theme of fake
beauty or perfection is something that fascinates me and returns into all my work.

Artists I like: Anneke Eussen
Nathalie Djurberg
Nadia Naveau
Cindy Wright
Rachel Agnew
Frederik Heyman
...

Interests: art
movies
music
cooking, bake cakes
having fun with friends and do crazy and laugh a lot

At 8:26 on March 25, 2010, International contemporary Art fair said…: Hello dear ,
I invit you to partcipate in the International Art fair -Taza - Morocco 2010 (event non profit) , for free space gallery
http://www.fiact.c.la

At 16:49 on March 13, 2010, frelonvolubile said…: reality is such a thread... is it a dream? friendly

:p

At 15:33 on October 16, 2009, Christian Leduc said…: I'd really like to meet you but I'm in Canada so there some distance between us!!
If I go on your side of the ocean , I will let you know! And if you come this side, let me know!

At 8:23 on October 14, 2009, Cdt Jakoustourikazaraï trio said…: Woooo,

bien acid chez vous,
étrange mélange,
ouf, c'est du bien !

Bigre,
mais vous etes du genre
à remuer les gens avec des trucs carrément bons !

Imaginez ce que peut donner notre univers musical
(entre le free, le plastique et le volume)
avec la relation de votre prochain ouvrage ?

Que du bon, et du super bon,
chère belle,
j'en profite pour vous signaler,
(car votre énergie en fait foi)
qu'il vous ai possible de venir
singulierement exprimer votre créativité
d'un jet tout brut
à cette adresse:
http://www.artreview.com/group/hurrart

au plaisir, au succès

le Cdt

At 16:32 on October 5, 2009, Christian Leduc said…: Hey.
Thank you!
Love your work too!
Keep in touch!
Christian

At 14:22 on September 15, 2009, Jeroen said…: mijn tripske naar parijs was heerlijk,.....PF ligt bij Jérôme aldaar
(gallery was dicht) en hij gaat een goed woordtje voor me doen :-).
Het weer was heerlijk en wat een stad geweldig,....ben alleen mijn
oplader en mijn flitser voor mijn camera kwijtgeraaktgestolen en er pas in holland achter gekomen,...
is erg shit want aangifte kan ik dus niet doen in holland,....het was ook zo'n kort
vliegensvlug bezoek,...ben nog aan het kijken wat ik kan doen qua verzekering enzo. groet, Jeroen

At 12:24 on July 27, 2009, mike hinc said…: Thank you. I love my work too. What great taste you have!!
(I think we both see the skull beneath the skin and smell the poison on the rose petal). Please don't be a stranger.

At 22:10 on May 28, 2009, Jeroen said…: hee how are you doing, i planning to go with a bunch of friends to go to pukkelpop and Dour festival are U planning aswel to go to one or both festivals i think it would be nice to meet up and talk about art in a proper way.
I'm quite intergrated here with a sort off art commune with a artist in residence options aswel etc. so,maybe that would be intersested for you aswell.
let me know. cheers!!

At 13:45 on May 12, 2009, Brenden Jemison said…: I like your work, I also like to reveal or intimate that their may be something to reveal beneath the surface of the bright and shiny objects. The notion that every light cast a shadow and your familiarity with the shadow is probably a direct correlation to your connection with reality, whatever that is.