Conversion
‘Conversion’ is the solo exhibition that celebrates Fransje Gimbrère as the winner of Harrie Tillie Prize 2023, a 5-year milestone exhibition.
Fransje Gimbrère takes existing materials and techniques as the starting point for experimentation and research into new possibilities. The ‘Conversion’ exhibition shows how she manipulates crafts and assigns spurious material properties to materials, resulting in intriguing objects and applications.
Since graduating in 2017, Fransje Gimbrère has been conducting experimental and hands-on research into the possibilities and applications of existing textile materials, crafts and industrial production techniques. She manipulates the properties of materials, image and form. In this way, she influences the way we perceive matter and creates inspiring concepts and designs, both autonomously and for the industry.
Gimbrère specialises in discovering innovations. She creates crossovers between craft and industry and regularly collaborates with commissioning clients, industrial producers, educational institutions, and university research groups such as Soft Connection Lab and KASK Ghent, and organisations including the TextielLab at the TextielMuseum in Tilburg.
Gimbrère’s curiosity results in monumental spatial compositions and sense-stimulating objects with a recognisable visual language. In ‘Conversion’, she showcases her working methods and the intriguing works that result from it.
Harrie Tillie Prize
The aim of the Harrie Tillie Prize is to encourage the artistic development of talented designers. The award is therefore more in keeping with its namesake Harrie Tillie, curator of the Roermond museum between 1988 and 2001. As curator, he was committed to providing a platform for young, talented artists.
De jury of the Harrie Tillieprijs en Limburg Design Award 2023 consisted of:
Maarten Engelman – senior architect Engelman Architecten, chair
Jeroen Junte – design and architecture publicist
Chequita Nahar – designer, manager autonomous visual arts and design programmes, Maastricht Institute of Arts, Zuyd
Timo de Rijk – director Design Museum Den Bosch
Exhibition ‘Conversion’
Cuypershuis
Pierre Cuypersstraat 1, Roermond
Until 17 September, 2023
cuypershuisroermond.nl
Photogrpaphy: Hanna van Dun