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Artist: Hennie Koffrie (Netherlands)
Hennie Koffrie
1946 born in ’s Hertogenbosch
The Netherlands
1974- 1979 Studied at The Gooische Academy of the Arts, Laren under Wim van Aken and Jos Linnenbank
Since 1975 Active in Dollmaking
Since 1982 Free Lance Artist Trade Mark Poppet Art
Since 1978 Exhibitions o.a. The Netherlands, Japan, U.S.A., Dubai , and all over Europe.
Since 1997 Member of Niada
Since 2006 Member of Dabida (Dutch and Belgian Artists}.
Several books about her work are published.
She works with paperclay and textile a real gift, because she likes to invent until the last moment. Hennie seals her pieces with an old recipe of gofun
All her work is one of a kind
Yoko Imai, curator of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo about Hennie’s work :
Work by Hennie Koffrie calls to mind human life, compelled to push on in full aware- ness of irrisisteble fate.
Their gaze follows up a movement that suggest a mechanical contrivance of some sort
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