Description
About the artwork: Dancing Square Sculpture (in a series of 2) Natural stone, spray painted metal strip.
Measurements: 50 x 20 x 60 cm
About the artist:
Marijke de Goey, Born 1947, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Both her work range and media are wide, it includes bridges, trains, squares, poetry and jewelry.
She studied at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam between 1974-79. Since this time she has worked on locations world around on large scale sculpture projects within, and around architecture; with sculpture in a gallery setting and on a smaller scale with her innovative jewelry. In 1985 she received the Art Award of the City of Gouda and in 1986 she was the recipient of the Francoise van den Bosch Award, Boijmans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam. In 2001 she was honoured with the Royal Degree Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion and in 2002 1st Art Price at 13th Biennale Poland. She gives lectures, seminars and workshops in different universities in Holland and abroad, e.g. in Tel Aviv, Moscow, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Graz, Munich, Copenhagen and Auckland.
