Nan Mulder

Friday 25th April 2008

The exhibition Double Vision is now over. This exhibition had been three years in the making, ever since Nan Mulder and Gea Karhof travelled to Nepal in 2004, where they met the printmakers Ragini Upadhyay and Seema Sharma Shah and decided to exhibit together. In November 2007 the exhibition opened in the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh where it was a huge success with many visitors and sales. Duncan MacMillan in the Scotsman chose it as ‘the Critics Choice’, and it featured in the Radio Cafe on Radio Scotland. A beautiful catalogue was produced, thanks to the sponsors, the Royal Netherlands Embassy in London and Morton Fraser Solicitors.

The next stop of the prints was in January 2008 in Kunstcentrum Haarlem in the Netherlands, a wonderful large exhibition space. Many family and friends travelled from far to attend the opening. The exhibition was reviewed by Martha Dirkmaat-Planting, who wrote long and well researched articles with photos in the Haarlems Dagblad and the Noord Hollandse Courant.

The last, and final stop of the exhibition was in the Siddhartha Gallery in Kathmandu. The exhibition was opened by Mr Hans Heijdra, the Honorary Consul of the Netherlands in Nepal. The Dutch Consulate also sponsored the opening, which was very well attended. There was a huge amount of publicity: 7 newspaper articles, three television programmes, a radio interview and two articles in magazines (one of which is still to come). Nan and Gea had travelled to Nepal and were overwhelmed by the hospitality of friends and people connected to the art world of the country. They also gave two workshops to the students in printmaking at the Shri Jana Art College and Tribhuvan University.

At the end of their stay they received the WAGON Award. The text on the award read:

“We truly appreciate your dedication and visit to Women Artists’ Group of Nepal, and hope you recognize, as we do, the valuable role you play in building brighter futures for Artists’ of our generation. Thank you for your continuing support. It is through the positive efforts of people like you that we can Change a Lifetime in the field of creative art.’

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Monday 5^th November 2007

BBC Radio Scotland, Tuesday 6 November 2007

The Radio Cafe will feature an interview with Nan Mulder about the exhbition 'Double Vision'. You can listen to this between 6 November and 13 November on:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/programmes/cafe&

Tuesday 25th September 2007

Double Vision

The website has been updated to show the new work Nan Mulder will be showing at the forthcoming exhibitions in Scotland, The Netherlands, and Nepal.  A fully illustrated catalogue will be published, featuring work and illustrations of the four artists involved (See 'Small group exhibitions').  New work can be seen under 'Oil Painting', 'Mezzotints 2001 - 2007', and the catologue introduction can be read in 'Selected Bibliography'.  The dates and websites for the exhibitions are:

10-28 November 2007
Open Eye Gallery
Edinburgh, Scotland
www.openeyegallery.co.uk

26 January-22 February 2008
Kunstcentrum Haarlem
Haarlem, the Netherlands
www.kunstcentrum-haarlem.nl

2-15 March 2008
Siddhartha Art Gallery
Kathmandu, Nepal
www.siddharthaartgallery.com

Monday 17^th September 2007

Barnardo calendar

Nan Mulder is one of the twelve artists selected for the 2008 calender published by Barnardo. The painting 'Place of Sanctuary' has been chosen for the month of August. The twelve selected paintings will be auctioned in Edinburgh on 22 October, to help raise funds for the Barnardo projects in the Lothians.

tuesday 24^th april 2007

upcoming exhibitions

In 2004 Nan Mulder travelled from Scotland to the Netherlands, where she met up with the artist Gea Karhof. Together they flew to Nepal. Because of the political situation in Nepal at that time there were often strikes and travel was difficult. The two artists spent longer in Kathmandu then planned, visited exhibitions and met two Nepalese printmakers Ragini Upadhuay and Seema Shah. The artists felt a connection and sense of recognition, even though their prints had different starting points. The Nepalese artists reacted in their work to their own culture as insiders, deeply familiar with the imagery of Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism, which is very alive in Kathmandu. Gea Karhof and Nan Mulder observed this fascinating world through European eyes, as outsiders, and in their subsequent work often mixed these images with those of their own culture; a reflection of the multi-cultural open society, which is Europe. 

All artists are successful printmakers in their own countries and the idea was born to bring the work of these four international printmakers together. It was felt that this would make a stimulating, exciting and fascinating show. It would offer the public a chance to compare how artists look at Asia from  both sides. A ‘double vision’ so to speak. And the exhibition should travel and follow the route of the artists.  That idea will now become a reality and the following exhibitions are planned:

Open Eye Gallery – Edinburgh

10 November – 28 November  2007

Kunst Centrum – Haarlem

February 2008

Siddhartha Gallery – Kathmandu

2 March – 16 March 2008

The exhibition in Edinburgh is sponsored by Morton Fraser Solicitors and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.