Danielle Spoelman

Drawing is for me like storytelling in images.We are all struggling to find meaning in our lifes and I like to investigate how we do that. A central theme in my work is being 'comfortably numb', pleasantly numb. How do you live your life? Open, touchable, vulnerable, on the border of the unpleasant or quiet, easy and comfortable but withdrawn and hidden? Caring and contact versus carelessness and loneliness. Comfort versus pain. Living versus sleeping. What is "real" and how much life can we bear?
I love drawing while it is a non-pretentious media. It gives me the possibility to experiment with a lot of materials and mix them together, like pencils, gouache, inks, markers etc. My work is colorfull, a bit fairytale-like but mostly with a bit darker twist in it.
Lately I discovered Acrylic-Gouache. It had the touch and feel of matte and opaque from gouache but when it is dry it is waterproof and that allows me to work in multiple bright layers. I'm really in love with this paint!

All my paintings and drawing will be shipped unframed because of shipping cost. (Even if you see them framed in pictures of them in exhibitions!) If you like a painting/drawing framed please contact me.

2010 Bachelor of fine Art, AKI ARTEZ Enschede, The Netherlands
2002-2004 Vrije Academie, Delft

2023

Waldschmerz en ander leed, Möllerwerf Hengelo

2022
ZT-collectief, groepsexpositie.
Groepsexpositie project helmen vol Verhalen, pilot in Arnhem, Memorymuseum Nijverdal, daarna landelijk.
Artbrutbienale met het All-in samenwerkingsproject met client Avelijn
Juli: Waldschemerz Duo expositie met Viktoria Gudnadottir bij CW 12, Zwolle.
Oktober: Tekenproject met de Stadsharmonie Enschede: solo-expositie plus concert in Robson-Vierkwart, Enschede.

2021

Balans, multi-solo Kunsthal hof 88, Almelo
Hier-Daar-Viceversa plus multisolo in Farb Borken (D)
Kunstroute Allee Rentree Enschede
Artists of the world, groepsexpo van Andre Smits, Concordia Enschede
2020

Samen, groepsexpo, Concordia Enschede
Dust to dust, Schrikkelexpositie Enschede
All-In, samenwerking met client Aveleijn, groepsexpo


2019
March 9 to April 29, 2019 Here / There / Viceversa, Kloster Gravenhorst Hörstel (D), Tandem-EU project with Wiebke Bartsch
8 March to 13 April: VMailArt project, Stork Pavilion, Hengelo
28 March to 9 May: Other Places (with Annelien Dam and Judith Schepers), Vrijhof, Enschede
May 19: Nurture, Kunstroute Losser
8.9 and 10 June: Lab of Secrets (with Judith Schepers), KunstenLandschap, Lonneker.
November- December 2019 Solo Exhibition Bornse...