Kellie Lippens (°1998 BE) investigates the boundary between control and serendipity, daring to leave the safe road is a challenge within her artistic work. During the work process she always looks with new, different eyes, which creates a personal experience that she sees as a journey of discovery and dialogue between herself and her work.

The focus on materiality is strong, she also uses natural clay that she digs up herself, along with self-blown glass and found materials. By letting go of the pursuit of perfection, she gives coincidence a chance, it challenges both herself and the viewer to engage in a different way of thinking, acting and reacting. She is fascinated by the complexity and certain simplicity of nature.

Kellie's work is essentially a multidisciplinary endeavor that presents a series of material and visual aporias, these paradoxes permit the coexistence of frailty and resistance, rest and tension, geometric order and random chaos.




EXHIBITIONS

29/11 - 8/12 2019 Exhibition with Bloe van Eeckhout, Evie Ellen Lippens and Paulien Wellens, Galerie d'Anières Genève (Switzerland)

2019 Participation in the exhibition Not Found in the Museum Maagdenhuis Antwerpen (Belgium)

2019 Graduation show , LUCA School of Arts Ghent

21/6 - 20/10 2019 Participation in the exhibition Bloedtest., the Museum Dr. Guislain Ghent (Belgium)

2019 Group exhibition Vrij___Spel, LUCA School Of Arts Ghent (Belgium)

2018 Duo exhibition with Svelte Thys, De Mitte LUCA School Of Arts Ghent (Belgium)

2018 Group exhibition S.H.O.T.S, LUCA School Of Arts Ghent (Belgium)

2018 Permacultuurfestival en ecodag, culture en nature event, Het Voedselbos Nokere (Belgium)

2018 Out of The Studio #3 experimental group exhibition, SANTO Ghent (Belgium)

2017 Walk with us… collaboration with Evie Ellen Lippens exhibition, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Ghent (Belgium)

2017 Group exhibition In graden celsius gekneed, LUCA School of Arts Ghent (Belgium)


PROJECTS

2018 IDEM 22, International Design Education Meeting, The Island of Rügen (Germany)

2018 Ceramics designer for the film A sombra do desejo (The shadow of desire) directed by Evie Ellen Lippens and Lore Mechelaere (Belgium)

2018 Voyeurism mixed media installation/performance
collaboration with Aurélie Adriaen, Liselot De Canck, Nathan Devuyst, Sophie Bergé, Zeno Spyropoulos (Belgium)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2019 Anne Ausloos's assistant during her residence in The CID, Centre for innovation and design at Grand-Hornu (Belgium)

2019 Robin Vermeersch's assistant during his residence in the EKWC, The Netherlands

2018-2019 assistant of the performance duo Robbert&Frank Frank&Robbert


PUBLICATIONS

2018 Picture of the week, LUCA School Of Arts Ghent

2018 Participant of the sticker book visual arts

 

EDUCATION

Current master in fine arts with specialism in ceramics and glass, LUCA School Of Arts Ghent (Belgium)

6/9 - 20/9 2019 After Summer School, production: CAMPO, NTGent, KASK, LUCA & RITCS (Belgium)

2016 - 2019 Bachelor in Fine Arts with specialism in ceramics and glass, LUCA School Of Arts Ghent (Belgium)

2018 Digital workspace workshop, Fablab EKWC (The Netherlands)

2012-2016 Fine Arts, Kunsthumaniora Sint-Lucas Ghent (Belgium)