Visual artist Babette Wagenvoort (MA RCA) is best known for her red drawings from the series ‘Life According To A Rectilinear Personality‘, which she publishes on her website. Her work generally deals with the relationships a human-being might have with his/her direct surroundings. Most works start with personal notes and end – after research, rationalisation and concentration – as drawings/writings that try to depict the human condition in a poetic and sometimes uncomfortable way. Her drawings can be found as commissioned public art works and animations, as wallpaper, but also as wall drawings, animations and installations within more regular exhibition spaces. As an illustrator she has worked for several publications like VPRO Gids, De Volkskrant, Vrij Nederland, Opzij and Hollands Maandblad in The Netherlands and the BBC, Le Gun and Dazed & Confused in the UK. She teaches drawing at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and is curator of ‘Volkskrant Oog‘, an online platform for artists of the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. She also runs the ‘Haagse Dames’ – a group of female contemporary artists & designers from Den Haag who get together every month to discuss their work.
A new book with Babette’s drawings called ‘Mood Swing – An Alphabet of Moods’ will come out in August 2009.
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Work Experience
Volkskrant Oog
Haagse dames
Waar ben je nou stom beest? No. 53, 2007, 50 x 50 cm
Detail 'Zoenbehang' Wallpaper for www.maxalot.com , 2008
Three 'Storycubes' to go with eBook 'The Octuplet: Story of Our Lives', Diffusion Books, 2009
Illustration for VPRO Gids, 2008
Detail pilot project 'Mood Swing' for www.hetnieuwehuren.com , 2009
Detail pilot project 'Mood Swing' for www.hetnieuwehuren.com , 2009
Still from animation 'Ik ben rustig lief en goed ' for www.volkskrant.nl/oog, 2007
Poster design for fictitious hardrock band 'ö', Schoon of Schijn, 2008
Rectilinear Personality, 2007
Rectilinear Personality, 2005
Rectilinear Personality, 2009
Rectilinear Personality, 2003
Rectilinear Personality, 2008
Detail of 'Rectilinear Stories', installation with wall drawing & stories at Tag, Den Haag, 2005
Wal map of 'Lijna's World', part of a travelling school project for Kunstgebouw, Zuid-Holland
Illustration for VPRO Gids, 2008
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