Nickle@Noon – Eveline Kolijn: Fragility and Resilient Ecologies
Learn moreJoin Eveline Kolijn for a fascinating talk on how her art is positioned at “the intersection of art and science with a focus on (marine) biology, ecosystems, evolution and climate change.”
A skilled and imaginative printmaker with imagery often addressing the issue of coral reef decline, Eveline Kolijn (BFA '08, Print Media) excels at lino and woodcut to describe undersea life with detail, pattern and formal design. Having left Curaçao in 1978, she returned in 1995, to visit her parents, now retired on the island. Here she made the shocking discovery that the coral reef was in decline.“The sea urchins had disappeared, and the hallmark forests of elkhorn coral as well.” She notes that in the 30 years she has been returning, the coral reefs have continued to deteriorate.
Kolijn is self-educated in the discipline of marine biology. Her post-secondary education consists of an MA cultural anthropology from Leiden University (Netherlands) in 1986. Although making art has had a consistent presence in her life since childhood, her formal study began as a mature student at the Alberta College of Art & Design (Alberta University of the Arts) where in 2008 she earned a BFA including a Governor General’s Award for academic achievement.
Always free. Everyone welcome.
Eveline Kolijn, Virus Capsids, 2024.
