Wouter van Kelle

For the art exhibition Sima: Wintering together, Wouter is showcasing his drawing Danse des Étourneaux:

Danse des Étourneaux, 2022

ink on 300g paper.

Danse des Étourneaux (in english, Dance of starlings) is a visual translation of vivid memories he has of a natural phenomena that happens every winter in Van Kelle’s maternal country of the Netherlands. Roughly from September until as late as March giant flocks of starling congregate in the hundreds of thousands to perform a spectacle known as murmuration. These small birds present a seemingly choreographed dance of pulling and pushing, which Van Kelle is researching in his own visual ways.

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Wouter van Kelle (1992) graduated in 2016 from the Willem de Kooningacademy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands majoring in Fine Arts & Design in Education. Having done his exchange (2015) in Fine Art at the UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia, Wouter went on to build his career as a visual artist with a focus on the relationship we have with our environment using different mediums.