Veronique Driedonks

Véronique Driedonks is a graphic artist who lives and works in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. She makes etchings, relief prints and drawings on paper and textile. After printing or drawing she adds another step to her creative process by cutting, weaving and folding the materials into three-dimensional reliefs and sculptures.

WOVEN
For her ‘Woven’ series Véronique uses only two zinc plates. They depict abstract ranges of linear waves and can be printed over and over again in different colors or tones. The Woven pieces are made of strips cut from these etchings. Spread across the tables of Véronique’s studio is a whole palette of strips. Choosing and weaving strip by strip, the images emerge. Since the original etchings were composed of bend lines, now hundreds of fragmented curves are rearranged in completely different ensembles.

PRINT & FOLD
Véronique’s fascination for spatial work originated at ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem, where she graduated in 2005 with large installations of all kinds of materials. Later the focus shifted to graphic art, that is traditionally two-dimensional. With her ‘Print & Fold’ series, Véronique Driedonks now escapes the flat surface by folding the paper into 3D creations. To give the foldings thei...

Master in Arts, College of Fine Arts Artez, Arnhem, 2005
Master in Arts, Radboud University Nijmegen, 1995