Early Sculptural Forms

2023-2025

When Femke Hoyng had carefully explored the material clay and its spatial possibilities, the need returned to take the flat image as a starting point once again. Her photographs and the photo transfer technique began to determine the form of the sculpture.

Ceramic Objects

2020-2024

In 2020 Femke started to work with clay. The material offered many more surprising possibilities than plywood, paper photos and film/video techniques in which she had become deeply proficient. The spatiality and depth she had always researched was suddenly no longer a goal, but the starting point.

The photo-transfer technique, which allows firing photos onto clay at high temperatures, brings endless new possibilities and continues her ongoing research into combinations of material and narrative.

Theme - Art & Spirit

Since 2012

Belief gives meaning. In religion, people place their trust in shared stories, values and rituals that connect them to something greater than themselves. This conviction offers direction, comfort and confidence.

For an artist, belief works differently. It is trust in an idea and in the creative process. Through making, reflecting, doubting and beginning again, an artwork gradually proves its own value. Some ideas are abandoned, others grow stronger. An artist’s confidence comes partly from this inner conviction, but it is also shaped by the way others respond to the work.

Photographic objects

1995-2020

These 'photoboxes' stem from research into how people perceive depth. To explore this, Femke took photos containing as much depth as possible: foreground, background, and preferably as many layers in between as possible. The photos themselves have not been manipulated; the flat surface has merely been stretched into a spatial dimension. Femke places the relief in a (sometimes hinged) frame upon which she paints colourful patterns and symbols that enter into a dialogue with the culture of the country where the photo was taken.

Animationfilms & TV-series

1990-2015

Femke Hoyng's films and TV-series (more than 50) are primarily combinations of live-action film/video with hand-drawn animation. They were produced with art grants and support from broadcasting companies. All children's series were broadcast on television. Abstract, experimental animated films have been screened at many international film festivals.