Geraldine van Heemstra’s practice evolves around her collaboration with the raw elements of the land. By immersing herself in the landscape her work becomes a translation of this vital engagement. Through the elemental energy in her work she expresses the link between human and non-human interaction, reflecting and reinforcing the intangibility of wind and weather, questioning our position as the human subject in the artistic creation.
Van Heemstra studied at Utrecht University with an MA in History of Art in 1992, followed by a post-graduate degree in the Conservation of Easel Paintings at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, graduating in 1995. After a career in the conservation of paintings, she focused on her own art from 2004 and graduated from City & Guilds of London Artschool in 2019 (MA) and awarded the Norman Ackroyd prize for etching. She was shortlisted for the Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2019, nominated as a finalist for The Signature Art Prize 2020 and winner of the Intaglio Printmakers Prize at the WCPF 2021, and in 2024 she was given the Nancy Graham Memorial Book Award at the Royal Scottish Academy’s centenary exhibition of Visual Arts Scotland.
Geraldine van Heemstra’s practice evolves around her collaboration with the raw elements of the land. By immersing herself in the landscape her work becomes a translation of this vital engagement. Through the elemental energy in her work she expresses the link between human and non-human interaction, reflecting and reinforcing the intangibility of wind and weather, questioning our position as the human subject in the artistic creation.
Van Heemstra studied at Utrecht University with an MA in History of Art in 1992, followed by a post-graduate degree in the Conservation of Easel Paintings at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, graduating in 1995. After a career in the conservation of paintings, she focused on her own art from 2004 and graduated from City & Guilds of London Artschool in 2019 (MA) and awarded the Norman Ackroyd prize for etching. She was shortlisted for the Clifford Chance Postgraduate Printmaking in London 2019, nominated as a finalist for The Signature Art Prize 2020 and winner of the Intaglio Printmakers Prize at the WCPF 2021, and in 2024 she was given the Nancy Graham Memorial Book Award at the Royal Scottish Academy’s centenary exhibition of Visual Arts Scotland.
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