Ninette van Kamp

Biography

Ninette van Kamp is an interdisciplinary and interactive designer from the Netherlands currently exploring the conflicting relationship between pain and beauty through the medium of textiles.

Ninette graduated from BDes Design Futures at Napier Univeristy, Edinburgh, in 2005 where she began exploring the interaction between objects (products) and their users specifically within the home environment. During her time on the MA Design for Textile Futures program, this has carried over to the body and the relationship between textiles and our skin.

Ninette is a dynamic designer specialising in print, digital print, stitch, and embroidery.

Final Project

Souffrez Pour Moi

Keywords

the body, pain, beauty, mark makings, skin imprinting

Research Question

Can we challenge the perception of textiles through exploring the notion of beauty and its conflicting relationship with pain?

Rational & Context

Throughout the ages, in the West, as well as in various other cultures around the world, women have always been encouraged to achieve an unrealistic state of 'ideal' beauty even in cases where it has been detrimental to their health. This is apparent in more extreme examples like the Victorian corset and Chinese foot binding. Women, it seems, are willing to suffer for the sake of beauty. Ninette is interested in conveying this relationship through textiles, looking at seams and mark makings on the body in particular.

Material/ Technology

print, embroidery, beading

Images

Links

under construction

Contact

email: ninettevankamp@yahoo.co.uk
UK mobile: 07795975362