Miriam Van Zelst

I was born in the South of Holland(Brabant) where I followed the Art Academy in Tilburg. At present living and working as an artist in Amsterdam. I am a serial artist: During a certain period I am caught up in a special theme. I make a group of objects, close to each other in ambiance and material. (like the drapery fiberwood amongst others). There is a period of attendance, bloom and decay. In the decay faze my interest shifts gradually to a new theme, a different material. This all within an over arching way of thinking.
As I am moving forward in a stream of awareness, by-products are seceded all the time; by-products in the appearance of art; by-products that make statements about this brutal life, which is above all very strange. Statements in the matter, memories from special moments, in order to forget nothing and to capture them forever. Like an ever growing metaphysical library kept by industrious monks. In addition to that, to reveal the worlds that the mind’s eye has seen in the dreamtime. The inner part of the mind. Imagine, all those hidden worlds we all carry inside of us, it nears infinity. To this purpose I made a series of short movies that can be watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCKDRw0KBj2t...

2006 dtp-cusus bij het NT1.
1984 Cursus meubelmaken te Tilburg
1979-1984 Academie voor Beeldende Vorming te Tilburg
1972-1978 Gymnasium Alpha aan het St. Janslyceum te Den Bosch

Sinds 1985 werkzaam als zelfstandig beeldend kunstenaar te Amsterdam

2015- 2021 small artmovies on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCKDRw0KBj2twf6rIZAOMQw
2015 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen” houten assemblages met geborduurd gedicht
2014 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen” stripverhaal gedicht geschilderd en geborduurd object
2013 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen” machine assemblages met codes
2012 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen” kleine assemblages met rokken en namen
2011 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen” Huisje ten Halve (landkaarten met vlaggen
2010 Vitrine-expositie bij Franjo Studio met vijftien assemblages met eigennamen
2010 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen” Gedicht met 22 paneeltjes i.s.m KM april
2010 Vitrine-expositie bij Puntspatie. Gedicht met achterliggende schildering maart april
2009 Vitrine-expositie bij raamgalerie van Kleef. Gedicht met drie beelden augustus september
2009 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen”Gedicht met 27 bruine beeldjes i.s.m. KM april
2008 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen” 9 schilderijen i.s.m. Kees Maas april
2007 Vitrine-expositie “Achter de Ramen” Groep Aardewerk i.s.m. Kees Maas
2006 Vitrine-expositie bij fa. Transfer in Vught, "vrouw met kat I en II" en "de jager". 11-2 t&m 31-5
2005-2006 Vitrine-...