Online / Talk / Weaving
Maaike Gottschal will give an Artist Talk about her work, her textile studio Textielfabrique, her research on textile techniques and cultures worldwide and her life as textile artist and pioneer.
Maaike Gottschal is a multidisciplinary (textile) artist from the Netherlands.
Through her work, Maaike aims to advocate for beauty and poetry in her textiles; beauty has a transformative power of imagination that makes our relationship with textiles personal, powerful and meaningful'
Here appreciation for textiles was passed down through her family. She grew up in a textile family that learned her weaving, spinning, bobbin lace making, embroidery, sewing, and explore many other techniques from an early age. Maaike studied design, art history, jewellery, and visual arts and is working across disciplines and their intersections.
Over the past fifteen years, she studied a wide range of textile techniques with seven teachers around the world, as part of a self-designed program called Textile as Language. Since 2020, she has been creating textiles using locally grown flax. Textile techniques and textile cultures are central to her work and knowledge. Anyone can spin, weave, and create beautiful, meaningful cloth. Her textiles are not technically perfect—rather, they are woven to highlight the human aspect of nowadays art.
Maaike teaches textile masterclasses since 2013 at her company Textielfabrique.