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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.
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