Grazing Choreographies – Drawing Centre Diepenheim Netherlands

Grazing Choreographies (grazing patterns of dairy cows) at Drawing Centre Diepenheim,  April until June 2024. Water color pencil and sprayed water on Hahnemühle 300 gr water color paper.

125 cm x ± 155 cm (hxw)


The audio files on this page are in Dutch. In these audio files, we talk about the  drawing. In time, there will be a transcription and a translation available
See also our blog on our residency in Diepenheim.

Artistic Motivation 

Our work focuses on movement and landscape and how mobility shapes the landscape. Just over twenty years ago, this began with innovative artistic experiments with location technology (particularly GPS) as a means of recording movement. This often resulted in digital prints or animations of traveled routes. We saw this as a ‘photography of movement’. Within this experimental practice, we have looked for opportunities to use technology as a tool to provide a representation of the landscape as it emerges from movement. Our most recent move has been to create drawings that, while stemming entirely from those experiments with technology, are completely free of the technology itself in their execution.
With Grazing Choreographies, we now draw directly, trusting our human powers of observation, the movements we would have previously captured with GPS.

Graaschoreografieën Markelo Heilersig Diepenheim Grazing Choreograpies

Press – Mister Motley

Artikel Linda Keja in Mr. Motley over Berichten uit het Platte vlak in Kunstenlab

Linde Keja on our exhibition in Kunstenlab

Press

Graaschoreografieën in Nieuwe Oogst

Pieter Stokkermans on grazing as art

Press

Artikel Linda Keja in Mr. Motley over Berichten uit het Platte vlak in Kunstenlab

Noa Zuidervaart visits our studio in Drawing Centre Diepenheim

Credits

Team Drawing Centre Diepenheim, farmers Meutstege, Heilersig, Wissink, Heutinck and Ten Heggeler.

Financial support