Maya Frodeman Gallery is pleased to present Essentially Unbound, a solo exhibtion with Dutch artist Marianne Kemp on view at the gallery's downtown location from September 13th through November 3rd, 2024. An artist reception will be held Friday, September 20th from 5 to 7pm. All are welcome to attend. Kemp will be in attendance.
Marianne Kemp was born in Woerden, and began sewing at the age of 13. Kemp’s early interest in textiles led her to study art at The Royal Academy of Art and Design in The Hague before moving to London to pursue her Master of Arts from the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Upon completion of her Master’s, Kemp decided to stay in London and started working from Cockpit Arts Studios in Central London. In 2003 she returned to the Netherlands. In her studio she works with four different looms, each capable of different weaving possibilities. Kemp’s work has been exhibited in the United States, the United Kingdom, and across Europe, as well as in Seoul, South Korea. Her work has appeared in numerous publications in her native Netherlands and abroad, including magazines World of Interiors and Metiér, and books Transmaterial by Blaine Brownell and Contemporary Textiles by Drusilla Cole. Kemp lives and works in Zutphen, the Netherlands.
