As artist, researcher, teacher and designer working for @ Linen Beyond Fashion at Buijtenland van Rhoon.
I’m currently writing about my research about textile as an embodied, spacial, relational and structural language and studying the practice of Anni Albers, and more specifically her work and research period in South America, as well as her teaching at Black Mountain College. for Crossyart.
ICI: C.V
ICI: Porfolio
ICI: Weaving as a Performative Act: Maaike Gottschal’s Ola Linea (2020) and the Bauhaus Weaving Workshop (1919-1933) by Dr. Mirjam DECKERS.
The publication is about my book ‘Ola Linea, the Self Striping Stripe’:
Text by art historian Dr. Mirjam Deckers about the practice of Maaike Gottschal and the Kitty van der Mijll Dekker Heritage project: ICI
Kitty van der Mijll Dekker Heritage project: Link ICI
“I maintain a multidisciplinary textile practice, engaging with textile heritage from around the world. My mission is to create awareness about the extremely high potential that textiles can have in our culture. In the past, textiles were an important medium to communicate and transfer value, emotions and comfort.’ Manual technical reseach I did as part of my research on Textile as structural and embodied Language’; ICI
“My practice is driven by curiosity and rooted in radical experimentation. I need play, I need to be surprised, and I want to learn something new from every work I create. I do not impose my will on the material. I listen, and then I respond.
There are no direct stories or fixed themes attached to my work. Meaning transforms through the making process itself. Everything matters there: my studio, my materials, what I read, what I practise, older traditions and practices, and the work of others.”
My research is not the work itself. A work has a beginning and an end — just like life. I hope my works become time machines. They are made with a certain intention, yet can be engaged with in the present by others who bring their own intentions to them. And perhaps, once forgotten, they may be rediscovered again — inspiring new intentions through them.
Kitty van der Mijll Dekker Herritage Project: ICI
Linnen DOEK, Woven WEALTH (cleaning towel project): ICI
ICI: C.V
ICI: Porfolio
ICI: Article about my book ‘Ola Linea, the Self Striping Stripe’:
Weaving as a Performative Act: Maaike Gottschal’s Ola Linea (2020) and the
Bauhaus Weaving Workshop (1919-1933) by Dr. Mirjam DECKERS
Another long term research project is about cleaning towels. Link ICI
Maaike has a lifetime of hands-on textile experience. She researched all possible techniques and forms of expression of textiles worldwide. Textile is a language. You can express everything in it. After ten years of giving master classes, the focus is now on the creation of beautiful textiles and passing on knowledge while working with professionals in the art and design sector. An overview of technical homework and aesthetic skills acquired in the textile field can be found in ICI