Marieke Pauwels is Master of Visual Arts and currently MAD-faculty Head of Department of Ceramics. She recently started a research project at MAD-faculty & UHasselt. Since 1989 Pauwels has exhibited at home and abroad, testing the conventions of her medium with performance art and winning a number of coveted international awards. A welcome guest speaker on the role and the future of Ceramics in Contemporary Art, she has lectured in Austria, China, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK. Residencies in Japan, the Netherlands and China continue to inspire her work. Pauwels has worked for two decades as a teacher in art education. A number of articles on her work have been published.                                                                

 

As she digs, revealing that which remains invisible to the average eye, Marieke Pauwels recycles and defunctionalises her shapes, then goes on to cosset, preserve and protect them. In her work she reinterprets folk cultures and traditions in a contemporary light, questioning the integrity of creation. The transposition that emerges, preserves the vulnerability of what has been lost – the fragility of objects, of techniques but above all of ideas. Investigation of the image runs parallel with the relationship between that which is depicted and its essence.

Portfolio on request.