Sjors Driessen
(1996, Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands)
BIOGRAPHY
As a visual artist, Sjors finds it important to send signals in his sculptural work by surprising viewers or evoking curiosity. Critically, he looks at society and its developments. Themes such as crime, climate and overpopulation is what interests him.
The combinations of the different objects tell the story. These sculptures are reflections of today’s or yesterday’s world. Through distortion, he creates these images of hope or despair.
But also the freedom of abstract work is where he feels at home. To not always have to find or want to say something himself. Inspirations from geology and microorganisms is where he discovers his fantasy world.
Indeed, his paintings originate from feeling which thus seems to be almost a counter-reaction to his suggestive sculptures. A search followed for finding his right medium to start painting on canvas. Eventually this turned out to be a branch of his own medium, namely glaze and as “canvas” a ceramic tile. Starting from scratch, he develops his own recipes for making the “paint” he paints with. The amount of possibilities in color and texture but also the unpredictability of the high temperatures of the kiln makes each work unique. Because he himself fully directs this entire process, control over composition is possible, but it remains continually innovative and a voyage of discovery. Both the suggestive sculptures and abstract works contain many layers. Both in concept and story but also in detail and glaze.
Sjors Driessen
(1996, Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands)
BIOGRAPHY
As a visual artist, Sjors finds it important to send signals in his sculptural work by surprising viewers or evoking curiosity. Critically, he looks at society and its developments. Themes such as crime, climate and overpopulation is what interests him.
The combinations of the different objects tell the story. These sculptures are reflections of today’s or yesterday’s world. Through distortion, he creates these images of hope or despair.
But also the freedom of abstract work is where he feels at home. To not always have to find or want to say something himself. Inspirations from geology and microorganisms is where he discovers his fantasy world.
Indeed, his paintings originate from feeling which thus seems to be almost a counter-reaction to his suggestive sculptures. A search followed for finding his right medium to start painting on canvas. Eventually this turned out to be a branch of his own medium, namely glaze and as “canvas” a ceramic tile. Starting from scratch, he develops his own recipes for making the “paint” he paints with. The amount of possibilities in color and texture but also the unpredictability of the high temperatures of the kiln makes each work unique. Because he himself fully directs this entire process, control over composition is possible, but it remains continually innovative and a voyage of discovery. Both the suggestive sculptures and abstract works contain many layers. Both in concept and story but also in detail and glaze.