ABOUT

Nora Hendriks is a textile artist, who uses weaving as a medium for her sculptures and installations. Her work is about how natural movements, such as wind, water, erosion and plant growth, shape their environment and interact with man-made structures. She aims to make these movements visible on a small scale, carried by the fibers that the weavings consist of. By working with the forces of weather and water, her artistic practice reflects on where she stand as a maker in a world increasingly defined by human destruction and pollution.

Weaving as a technique makes it possible for her to show the interaction between the material and the ecosystem it is surrounded by. The transparency that is inherent to weaving she amplifies by using contrasting materials that have their unique behaviour when intertwined. The openness of the woven fabric makes the changes from erosion or growth visible. There is a continuous tension between her hands being actively guiding the process and the threads taking over leaving her to follow their desire for movement. The unpredictability of the environment amplifies this effect and forces her to let go their control over the process.

In addition to weaving, she uses writing as a parallel study of the behaviour of threads. Writing and weaving share a similar cadence: not only physically in the construction of a text or fabric, but also in the unique forms that words or threads create when interconnected. The craft of bookdesign and -binding is another medium she finds suitable for visually and textually representing the complex relationship between man-made materials, environmental degradation, and the uncontrollable forces of nature.

Agenda

September 18 - October 12 2025.
Groepsexhibition Into the water at Treehouse NDSM, exhibiting weavings exposed to Amsterdam city water and a video with humans performing as the common city resident: coots.
June 6 - August 31 2025.
One of 50 works of the Kunstroute on the WG Terrain Amsterdam. ‘Waterdocument’.
More info about the route and other works here.
25th September 2023.

For the occasion of Woodcraft And Textile Future Fest 2023, presentation of graduation work at the Verbeke Foundation.
4-9th September 2023.

Organised by Soft Connection Lab, joining as a applicant the summerschool Urban Foraging/Creatieve woekerpraktijken. Exploring the fibres in the urban area of the city of Ghent and learning obsolete techniques on how to process the fibres.

More info here
3 July 2023.

Selection of 25 masterstudents graduating from Belgian art academies.
Full article.
Published in Metopolis M
Issue no 4 aug - sep 2023
inkomen & eindexamens.
Article written by An-Katrien Callebaut.
Published in print. More info
28 June - 2 July 2023.

KASK Graduation show on Bijloke campus, Ghent.
23 July - 25 July 2023.

Group expo masters Textile Design and Autonomous Design in the Designmuseum, Ghent.
October 2022 - March 2023.

Weaving design and production for the solo exhibition of Brussels based artist Anne Marie Maes at the Kunsthalle in Mulhouse, France.
Weaving performance on the vernissage.
See more about the expo here >>
July 2022- January 2023.

Graphic design and production of a publication for Brussels based artist Anne Marie Maes. The book A Bee is a Bee is a Bee, is a visual interpretation and collection of her works about bees. Among them is a performance in the Palais the Tokyo in Paris, of which the materiality and behavior of the bees have been integrated in the book.
View the publication here >>
August, September 2021.

Group residency and expo with fine artists Thomas Koevoets, Paul Nieboer, Bas Kaufman, Martha Thissen, H.U.T., Manon de Baecke and designer Kellie Lippens.
August 2020.

Flag design residency for Minus One, Ghent.