Kunstvrienden Catalog
As the conservation of the heritage of my great-grandfather Joe English and our family archive in general is one of the many aspects in my work, I’m part of an informal network of collectors, connaisseurs and experts in the field of Belgian painters from the 1830-ies to the 1950-ies, called Kunstvrienden (‘artfriends’). Back in april […]
Sketchnotes and drawings
While following the collective discussion on Social Security in the arts (in the framework of the “Fair Arts Almanac 2022” and “How to Live & Work Now” at Kaaitheater) I made some sketchnotes of the break-out sessions and sent them to SOTA. Little later they got back to me and asked if I could do […]
93ste IJzerbedevaart
Er zijn ongetwijfeld mensen die helemaal niet weten wat ik in’t dagelijks leven allemaal doe, laat staan dat ik bezig ben met zoiets archaïsch als een IJzerbedevaart. ’t is simpel: Het is mijn familiaal erfgoed, omdat ze mijn overgrootvader als eerste symbool van die ontvoogdingsstrijd hebben gekozen. Ik ben daardoor zo’n beetje een specialist in […]
Groen+ Tervuren
De presentatie van het nieuw mobiliteitsplan voor Tervuren door de schepen van mobiliteit. Camerawerk door Jan Locus, regie, montage en motion graphics door mezelf. The presentation of the new mobility scheme for the city of Tervuren, by the alderman. Camera by Jan Locus, direction, edit and motion graphics by myself.
Scaled Access
Amidst the corona lockdown period, the people from start-up company Scaled Access got in touch because they wanted to present their product through the LinkedIn platform. I already worked for them when it still was named ‘miaa guard’, but this time there was an extra challenge, given the impossibility to come together. Ater sending carefull […]
Expo: art to propaganda
Following my own expo Mystisch Land, Museum aan de IJzer set up an expo: “Joe English, from inspiring art to propaganda”. It shows the art of Joe English during WW1 and the evolution of that body of work towards the flemish nationalist propaganda of the interbellum. I designed the info-posters and helped Peter Verplancke, the […]
Henry English
The biography of my great-great-grandfather Henry English, born in Waterford, Ireland in 1853. Orphaned by the potato famine, he arrived in Bruges at the age of 10, where he got an education as a gold embroider and married Marie Dinnewet, his drawing teacher’s daughter. I made the layout and all graphical works for the 78-page […]