Celine van den Boorn

Celine van den Boorn examines the complex relationship between man and nature. In Van den Boorn’s work the natural world is carefully organised and mapped, every bird in the sky, every shell on the beach. On close examination the order of nature reveals the friction in the encouner with the order of man.

In her recent work Van den Boorn creates new versions of photographed landscapes by painting away the people that were present. By doing this, the focus shifts from the people to the landscape itself, and a tension occurs between the apparent untouched nature and the still visible traces of human presence. By erasing people from existing landschapes new images are created that suggest a more ideal world, still caused by human intervention.

Celine has been working with drawing, painting, photography and mixed media. Selected recent exhibitions include: 2011 ‘The Location of culture’, Pulchri Studio, The Hague (group); 2011 Webster Art Gallery, Leiden (solo); 2010 Sanquin: Gallery Joghem, Amsterdam (solo); 2010 Galerie Artipoli, Noorden (group); 2010 De Vishal, Haarlem (solo); 2009 CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam (group).

Her work has been included in several public and private collections and has been nominated for the Talens-Pulchri Award, the Jacob Hartog Award and the Piet Bakker Prize. Alongside her artistic work Celine teaches at the Utrecht School of Arts.