Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / JUNE 2022<br />
Antje von Stemm<br />
Germany<br />
www.vonstemm.com<br />
About<br />
Hello, my name is Antje von Stemm. I am a childrenbook<br />
artist based in Hamburg, Germany. I hold a diploma in design<br />
and illustration (Department of Design / HAW Hamburg) and<br />
additionally trained as a paper engineer in Santa Fe, USA.<br />
For my projects I often combine different artfields:<br />
I am switching between writing, drawing, painting,<br />
paperengineering, tinkering, photographing, filming and<br />
performing. Especially the areas where different art fields<br />
meet and intersect hold a great attraction for me.<br />
Meanwhile my experiments resulted in a bunch of creative<br />
craft books, pop-up books and video tutorials, mostly for<br />
children. I also teach and inspire: I hold creative workshops<br />
for children and adults in schools, libraries and at festivals.<br />
Some of my book projects have won some nice awards,<br />
including the German Youth Literature Award and the LUCHS.<br />
I work with ten other creative humans in the Freudenhammer<br />
studios, Hamburg.<br />
Diving into forest microcosm<br />
I tried to use my time in ARTELES as loosely and playfully as<br />
possible and not to take on too much pressure. I started with<br />
a “seeing-and-collecting” phase: for a few days I wandered<br />
in the woods around the ARTELES houses and collected<br />
pencil drawings of natural structures on small blank cards -<br />
buds, leaves, moss, stones, branches. Then I selected two of<br />
these cards at a time and combined the structures in colored<br />
pencil drawings. The result - without my having intended<br />
to do so beforehand - was a series of fantastic natural<br />
creatures. In the next phase I transferred the ideas of these<br />
drawings into small 3D figures - five small nature creatures<br />
were created from wire, colored paper and adhesive tape.<br />
With these little wild beasts under my arm, I then wandered<br />
back into the forests, looked for good, magical places and<br />
then photographed the creatures there. While wandering<br />
for hours around with these little figures, stories and scenes<br />
arose in my head, which I am now writing down piece by<br />
piece - I’m curious what will become of it!<br />
You can find out more about me and my work on my website<br />
WWW.VONSTEMM.COM or my Instagram channel @<br />
antjevonstemm