About Lenie Voortman
Until 2021, my work included free work as well as applied art. Everything I made, came forth from of an ongoing journey of discovery into surprising combinations of techniques and materials. I worked with paper and natural fabrics, but also with metals, ceramics and a variety of synthetic materials. I keep discovering new possibilities which I apply in my own way. For example, I rediscovered photography as a creative medium in 2021.
For many years, I followed courses ranging from hatmaking to gold- and silversmithing and everything in between. The step towards free work flowed from the design of unique, individually designed, personal accessories for clients of my former image consultancy. I started the consultancy after a career as a medical care counsellor and educator.
Lenie Voortman works and lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Exhibitions and publications
2024 World Photography Day 2024, two photo’s from the series ‘Broken Dreams’ in digibook ‘Catalogus van de fotografie’
2024 Picto Poroso, photo series in Pf Fotografie Magazine, April 2024
2024 With other eyes, Galerie Goudsberg / Museum Lunteren, Lunteren, the Netherlands
2023 Series of five photo’s for postcards issued by Zin in Utrecht
2023 Publication abstract photo in In Beeld, quarterly magazine Fotobond, nr. 114
2023 From Analogue to Smart-o-logue, exhibition Smartphone Group Fotobond, ZIMIHC, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2023 Publicatie abstracte foto in In Beeld, kwartaalmagazine Fotobond, nr. 113
2023 World Photography Day 2023, abstract photo in digibook
2022 Origins and Destinations, Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Capellades, Spain
2021 Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale, Fengxian Museum, Shanghai, China
2021 Origins and Destinations, The Paper Academy, Gillelleje, Denmark
2020 Re-Start, Studi-O, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2020 Aufbruch ins Ungewisse, Kunstschaffen in Zeiten von Corona, Goetheanum, Dornach, Switserland
2020 CODA Challenge Quarantainesieraden, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
2020 Handmade in Europe, Handwerkskammer, Hannover, Germany
2019 Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale, Fengxian Museum
2019 Cosa mi metto in testa?, Associazione Arcadia, Rocca di Sala Baganza, Parma, Italy
2019 Flower Art Museum, Aalsmeer
2018 Watch, Walk and Wonder, Galerie Paper Art & Design, Den Haag
2018 Virtual Shoe Museum, www.virtualshoemuseum.com
2018 Papier – unARTig, Papierscheune, Homburg am Main, Germany
2018 Papier-Kunst, Handwerkskammer, Hannover, Germany
2017 Art from our own province, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
2017 Nature | Impression, Paper Biennale, Bar Sheva, Israel
2017 Summer in the City, Handwerkskammer, Hannover, Germany
2016 A Feast on Paper Art, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, China
2015 Paper Exhibition, Galerie De Pomp, Warmond, The Netherlands
2014 Paper Hats, Westfries Museum, Hoorn, The Netherlands
2013 Ka-Art 2013, Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands