HANDIEDAN - Hanneke Treffers
Hanneke Treffers (1981) was born in the Netherlands. She studied photographic design at the Academy of Arts and Design St. Joost in the Netherlands. Along the way, she developed her skills and since 2002 she works under the name HANDIEDAN as a Amsterdam based self-employed artist, (web)designer, illustrator, flash animator and photographer.
Working as an artist HANDIEDAN creates mixed media pin-up artworks, black-and-white photo montages and fine line drawings on old sheet music.
It is a cut and paste mixture of patiently composed collages on paper and photo montages all washed together with the computer in an aesthetically pleasant and intuitive playful way. HANDIEDAN uses classic pin-ups and other elements like old sheet music, Chinese papers and stamps, old money, elegant curls, old wood, rusty metal and other old stuff she gathers on the street, flea markets or finds in old boxes on the attic. To combine the old images with her hand-dawn little girly doodles and scratches she distorts the carefully placed elements and makes the design lively, like in nature and the beauty and the discarder, objects and people, structure and balance, and happenings by purpose.
HANDIEDAN’s work has been shown in shows worldwide, including the solo show at Phoneboothgallery.com December 2008, the recent group exhibition with Bright Young Things Gallery in the Posthoorn Church in Amsterdam, ‘Paper Pushers’ at Gallery 1988 in San Francisco, the solo show at M’atuvu at Josworld in Brussels and joined the Cut&Paste Competition in London as one of the 8 final contestants.
As a designer, art director and illustrator HANDIEDAN works for different companies and joined projects such as Subtle Disruption, NY, Modfilms, Australia, P.O.V. Interactive, San Francisco, Integrity Fashions, California, Shirtflag, Shanghai, Dushi, Netherlands.
Her work also appears in magazines, books and websites such as IDEAFried’s 'The Keywords on Visual Arts in Netherlands', Victionary’s “Musikraphics and ‘Fashion Wonderland’, Photoshop Creative, IDN Magazine, Fefè Magazine, Proteus Magazine, Carpaltunnel Magazine, Wonderland Magazine and Juxtapoz Art & Cultural Magazine. |