Leon Kingma
Fashion Design BA
HKU Utrecht School Of The Arts
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles: Fashion/Interiors / Textiles - Concept
My location: Arnhem, Netherlands
Leon Kingma
First Name: Leon
Last Name: Kingma
University / College: HKU Utrecht School Of The Arts
Course / Program: Fashion Design BA
Graduates: 2025
Specialisms: Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Textiles: Fashion/Interiors / Textiles - Concept
My Location: Arnhem, Netherlands
About
Hi, my name is Leon Kingma: designer, creative researcher and textile artist. My work distinguishes from others by using my own developed knotting-technique, which is the foundation of my artisanal handmade textile art-pieces. With my keen eye for detail and a fondness for shapes, color and material, I'll use my hands and senses to make new work by intuition and experiment.
Chasing time, changing tides, changing times
This hand-knotted textile installation critically reflects on the time we live in right now. In this period of trouble we need to find the resilience in ourselves to cope with the future. In this installation, I use a metaphor to reflect on the resilience of us humans: the resilience we find in nature. A volcanic eruption causes destruction to the natural environment, but it will also lead to a more fertile soil, which in the end will cause new life. In this installation the key element is the friction between destruction and new life. This friction is made visible, in an abstract manner, by letting life (colorful materials and textile waterfalls) arise from the destructed holes.
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