Introduction to Carina Claassens

Carina Claassens was born and raised in South Africa, where she grew up on a wild life nature reserve. From 2000 to 2002 she has studied:Fine and Applied Art at the Tshwane University in Pretoria, Bachelor Degree.

After finishing her studies she moved to Mozambique, Maputo...Until she moved The Netherlands (April 2005) where she has been working and living for the past 4 and a half years.

Her main subject had to do with celebrating Female Forms in all its aspects, with figurative artworks in ceramics, paintings, drawings and etchings.

Lately she has experimented more with Mix Media, Multi Media installations.

It has moved and grown to the Memory Series, where she documents her own memories.

So as not to forget them, she uses rope to tie them down…to keep the memories from fluttering away into oblivion.

Obsessively tying down her fears, secrets, lost moments, so that she may not forget: Who she is.

As I quote: “Yesterday made me”.

She gets her inspiration from events that happened with women
in her circle of friends and in her family.

Her artworks have been exhibited at several well-known institutions.