Christiaan Diedericks
BIO
Energetic, healthy,
professional and self-motivated practising contemporary artist, educator and
creative development specialist with proven facilitation skills and experience
in education, soft skills, technical skills and (project) management skills, as
well as extensive experience in the specific areas of new media, printmaking,
graphic design, creative process and also the design, implementation and
facilitation of curriculum programmes in-line with national qualification
Initiatives.
Inherent ability to
collaborate effectively within a team in order to realise organisational
objectives through transformational leadership. Motivator with well developed
communication and interpersonal skills and commitment to excellence in art
practice, research, education and conceptual development.
Christiaan
Diedericks
BSc, MA(Fine Arts)
(professional
artist, educator, creative process navigator)
BSc – 1986
BA(FA) cum laude –
1992
MA(FA) practical
distinction – 2000
2006 - Ampersand
Foundation Fellowship, New York City
2015 - Beijing
Biennale in China
2020 – FIRST PRIZE
for experimental printmaking, Miniprint Kazanlak, Bulgaria
2021
: Doctor Raya Mayo
AWARD, AU$8000, InkFest, 5th InkMasters Biennial 2021, Tanks Art Centre,
Cairns, Australia
: FIRST PRIZE, Mudi
in Arte 2021 Artist’s Prize, 1500 Euro - Diocesane Museum of Salerno,
Italy
: WINNER of the
award trophy for Printmaking at the International Spiritual Art Award 2021, USA
2022
: FINALIST, 5th
Printmaking Bienial, Cãcãc, Serbia
: CONSCIOUSNESS,
Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello with the ITSLQUID group, VENICE during the 59th Venice
Biennial, 2022, Italy
: SECOND PRIZE,
Diego Donati Prize, 7th Biennial of Contemporary Printmaking 2022, Perugia,
Italy
2023
: WINNER of an
International Digital Art Excellence Award, Online DIGITAL ART
COMPETITION, Bindaas Artist Group (BAG), India, 2023
: FINALIST - XVI
International Graphic Art Biennial DRY POINT, Uzice, Serbia, 2023
: HONORABLE MENTION
- Circle Arts Artist of the Year Contest, USA, 2023
: PRIZE-NOMINATED -
12th Kochi International Triennial of prints, Japan 2023
: GRAND PRIZE - 1st
International Biennale of Miniature Art Graphics and Drawings-Bitola-IBMB -
Bitola 2023
2024
: FINALIST -
International Print Triennial Krakow (MTG), Poland, 2024
: FINALIST - 2024
Taiwan International Print Biennial
: EXCELLENCE AWARD
(Medal) – Zeitgeist Art Foundation, Kolkata, India
: DISTINCTION -
Berrybox International Art Bienniale - Glass Drawers, Poland
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
In many ways I aim to rewrite history in my work and the dominant sense
of self-awareness that informs most Western art practices. I am trying to
present contemporary issues such as Difference as timeless, by
situating my vocabulary of images and themes in an organic flux of dreams,
history, politics, news, commercial detritus, and unvoiced feelings and forces
of biological nature/desire. Stylistically, my work is often influenced by mythology,
surrealism and magic realism. I aim to stay clear of any literal explanations
of my work and believe that no work of art or “visual text” is ever complete.
To me, the ongoing input by viewers and the debate between the viewer and the
artist, keep on adding new meaning to my initial concept and hence enrich my
work. Technically, I am currently investigating new technology to make work.
This includes Giclee (digital) printmaking, laser engraving and other
experimental ways of making prints. I am combining traditional printmaking
processes with new technical possibilities and in doing so, create hybrid
prints. Conceptually, I am still interested in issues of gender identity, world
politics, and various forms of inequality persisting in an outdated patriarchal
reality. Ideas about post-truth as a marker/mirror for contemporary society, as
especially fueled by social media, resonate very deeply with me.
Christiaan Diedericks
The re-enchantment of beauty II (Silent forests) (unframed), 2023
ZAR 7,950.00
Christiaan Diedericks
The re-enchantment of beauty V (On the back of my brother), 2023
ZAR 18,950.00
