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Three Pieces Estelle Boelsma was born in 1971 in Hilversum, Holland. She is a visual artist, a poet, a photographer, a translator of English-language literary texts and a website designer. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem, Holland, from 1992 to 1998 and, after graduating, worked as an editor for the Academy of Fine Arts magazine in Arnhem. She began studying linguistics and philosophy at the University of Nijmegen in 1999 and is currently working on her Ph.D. During her career as an artist Estelle has exhibited at the following galleries: Hooghuis, Arnhem; P.A.R.K. Dtv4; Parapluifabriek; DZIGA; Kunstpaleis, Deventer - as well as at several film and video events at various galleries. She attended an international masterclass about European identity in Sinalunga, Italy, in 1996. Her work has also been exhibited online at www.addictlab.com and at www.blue-turns-grey.nl She has worked as an organiser and curator for art galleries and exhibition platforms such as Hooghuis, Arnhem; AVE.COM; and DZIGA. In 2000 she organised a film-based symposium in Arnhem on the work of the Russian film director Andrei Tarkovski. In the autumn of 2006 she created www.blue-turns-grey.nl , a quarterly online e-zine specialising in the work of visual artists, photographers, poets, novelists and essayists. Estelle has had her poetry published in several Dutch literary magazines: LAVA; De Revisor; RUIM; Op Ruwe Planken; Concept, de Brakke Hond and Parmentier. She is currently working on the Dutch translations of the poetry of Anne Sexton, David Berman and Robert Lowell |
