Gwendolyn Kassenaar

Gwendolyn Kassenaar is a Dutch visual artist & performer based in London. A graduate from Chelsea College of Art, she collaborates with dancers and musicians in her live-art performances and studio-based work. She improvises in the moment to express the intangible poetry of that ephemeral moment. She embraces experimentation in her quest to fuse visual art, rhythm, colour, sound and movement.

Synaesthesia makes Gwendolyn experience sound as shapes and colours in her mind’s eye, particularly relating to an instrument’s timbre or the music’s rhythm. They emerge, overlap and fade like a psychedelic animation.

Gwendolyn’s art is known for her bold, gestural strokes and vibrant use of colour. Recently it has been shown at Yehudi Menuhin Concert hall, Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club, Vortex Jazz club and in a solo exhibit in Shoreditch. It features on album covers and in private and corporate collections in the UK and abroad. An active participant in the London jazz scene, she is resident artist and curator at Freedom (Vortex Jazz Club, London), avant-garde Skronk and Melifera (HYG).

Recent work includes interdisciplinary performances at Cafe Oto, Iklectik and the Hundred Years Gallery. She created a live-painted mural in Shoreditch with dancer Petra Haller, commissioned by OTZ Gallery. She performed in a duet with internationally renowned Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang at SOAS, University of London. She co-founded the new Noisy Women series with Faradena Afifi and legendary Maggie Nicols. Their recent launch received critical acclaim in iconic magazine The Wire.

Visit https://www.instagram.com/gwendolynkassenaar/ to view latest performances and art.

Gear

Soft pastels (amplified!)

Acrylic paint

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