Biography: Joke Schole makes creations in which she challenges the viewer to start a conversation. Using beautiful textiles, paint, porcelain and integrated elements, her work brings out something unexpected. She inexhaustibly keeps looking for new techniques to show new combinations of materials.Through careful selection from all the different possibilities - including type, form, materials and the finishing touch - She endows symbolism, chemistry and harmony on her work. Through play she comes to make creations with a soul, were the focus does not lie on perfection, but on irregularity and decision making. She strives to stimulate everyone's fantasy and through surprises to trigger the imagination. Joke Schole graduated in 1985 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy of Art. During her study she worked at Ulf Moritz Design and followed Masterclasses with Junichi Araï.?In her early work, always on and with textile, she already showed traditional and non-traditional techniques. She experimented with several dyes and paint on different material which resulted in innovative textile designs and structures.?The tension in the combination of color, design and material caused her to work for several manufacturers like Boussac, Texunion, Mettler France, Jenast, and also for fashion designers like Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Daniel Hechter and Cacharell.?She continued her work as an interior designer with manufacturers like?Macy' s N.Y., Judscott, Ploegstoffen, and she made several collections for Li Edelkoort. Her textiles where used in forcastings by the Dutch Fashion Institute, Trend Union and in several publications. With this work she had a solo exhibition at the Dutch Textile Museum. Together with the Innovation Center Amsterdam she made a research with mineral textile recipes for industrial and environmental purposes.?Her interest for minerals came after having worked with indigo and other natural methods. She created big wallhangings which represented origin creatures made with rust. Joke Schole received prices like the First Price of the Best Collection Interior Design at the Premier Vision-Paris 1987,the Outstanding Price at the Komatsu Municipal Honjin Memorial Museum- Japan with the Laquer Contest 1995,and the Dutch Cultural Ministry supported Joke Schole with two post-graduate scholarships. For six years she worked for the Academie Voque- Amsterdam teaching Interior & Fashion print Design.?Further more her textiles and designs were used in the redecoration of the prestigious hotel New York-Rotterdam, in the set dressing and costumes of some Dutch feature-films. Since 2000 Joke Schole designs collections like costume made bags, special personal presents, jewelry, illustrations , print designs and paintings. She makes autonomous art work with several materials like porcelain and paint. Jewelry might be integrated in her art work, or you can find small series, or single pieces. Work was exhibited in the V&A London at Collect, and is shown at several galleries. Her work is collected by several collectors and bought by museums. Since 2008 Joke is involved with Community art projects.