Anse Heestermans
textile design
Technique is where it all begins. The boundaries never make me feel limited, but rather free. I get this enthusiasm, and it carries me away. Combined with a strong mind, it will make me strive to be inventive and patient. Imagination will spread and take over. A design process arises through actions of doing, thinking and feeling in material, technique and colour. And in the end a new textile comes to life, as in a never-ending performance.
I'm Anse and I have a passion for textile, creating, drawing and teaching. Welcome to my website!
Education
2015 – 2018
School of Arts, KASK Ghent - specific teachers education in visual arts
2015 – 2017
School of Arts, KASK Ghent - master in textile design
July 2014
Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lódz, Poland - International Summer courses: Textile print techniques
2012 – 2015
School of Arts, KASK Ghent - bachelor in textile design
Experience
January 2022 - June 2023
Meester-leerlingtraject industrial knitting machines at Breimuseum (STeM) Sint-Niklaas
July 2018
Zomeracademie participation in Destelheide, Dworp - atelier Textile and Theatercostume led by Anita Evenepoel
October 2017
Selected for Week van het Ontwerpen, Kortrijk - exhibition
March - October 2017
Exhibition Plain/Purl at Designmuseum, Ghent
June 2017
Graduation exhibition
December 2016
Masterclass with Alfredo Häberli at School of Arts, KASK Ghent - MVSC 02 (Maarten Van Severen Chair 02)
June - September 2015
Internship at Casalis, Kortrijk