Everaet Mieke
Born 1963 in Asse , Belgium
studies
National Higher Institute for Art, Antwerp. ‘86 – ‘88 Royal Academy of Fine Art and Design, Antwerp ‘81 – ‘85 Ceramic Department led by Achiel Pauwels and Hugo Rabaey
exhibitions
From 1987 onwards Mieke Everaet exhibited her objects in many galleries and museums in different countries : Belgium - The Netherlands - Germany - France - Great Britain -
Finland - Greece - Italy - Japan - Korea - China.
works in museums and public collections
Ceramic Museum Nyon
Royal Gallery for Art and History Brussels Municipal Art Museum Kortrijk
Design Museum Gent
Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart Dr. Hans Thiemann Hamburg
Keramion Frechen
Museum Saga
Collection Leen Quist, Frans Koster for Boymans Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam Collection Hans Fuchs
Museum for Ceramic “Sèvres”
Museum Icheon WOCEF
awards
Switzerland Belgium
Germany Japan
The Netherlands France
Korea
‘86 Prize “Jugend Gestaltet” München; Germany
‘86 Prize for Arts and Crafts Vizo; Belgium
‘87 Prize “Pittsburg” Triennial of small ceramics Zagreb; Croatië
‘89 Honorable Mention Mino; Japan
‘92 Prize “Pro Novio Duno”, Triennial of Porcelain Nyon; Switzerland
‘95 Member of the International Academy for ceramic, Genève; Switzerland
‘96 Prize “Gestalteten Handwerk”, Bayerischen Staatsregierung,
München;Germany
‘97 Bandol; France
‘97 Golden Medal given by the President of the republic Faënza; Italy ‘O2 Selection for Vallauris; France
‘O3 Honorable Mention in the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale; Korea ‘04 Icons of Design in Flanders; Belgium
statement
Mieke Everaet creates porcelain objects with a most universal and extremely sculptural form –the bowl- a conical form with a raised edge. A structure comes into being by means of lit- tle coloured porcelain strips, which form a rhythmical, dynamic entity, ”such as the notes of a contemporary piece of music”. They do not beautify the form, but become the structure in itself, a structure that also can be detected in a tactile way. The bowl-shaped objects are not glazed, but rubbed down and polished up, as a result of which they capture and absorb the light through the thin but hard parchment skin. This turns them into frighteningly fragile and translucent porcelain objects. Thus they are really brought to life, almost trembling on their unsteady base.
Initially, Mieke Everaet built up her objects from remarkably brightly-coloured fragments of mosaic. Later she started to experiment with more lyrical, sensitive compositions with gentle pastel shades. The bowls are more varied in profile and size. By fusing two bowls, the object becomes lobate. In her last work the modest beauty of sober colours in shades of white, grey and beige in combination with repetitive fragments of strips is very noticeable. The oval open forms are almost minimal and reduced to the essence in itself.
