Mieke is a Canadian and Dutch Fine Art Photographer, living in London. Her work challenges our ambivalence to the natural world around us. She strips down the unnecessary and focuses on simple lines and moments of movement or stillness in nature. Scale, distance and form are often ambiguous. She hopes to make you linger a bit longer and look at the forms, shapes and textures of nature.
Her practice is inspired by the Abstract Impressionists’ abandonment of traditional ideas of composition and by the17th century Dutch Master Painters’ use of light, composition and colour to direct the eye of the viewer. She experiments with modern techniques to achieve these effects in a digital image. Her work moves between fact and fiction and constantly challenges the boundaries of photography and art.
Mieke’s images are held in private collections and have been exhibited internationally, including two submissions in the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019. Mieke has won multiple major photography awards, amongst others: BBA Photography Prize Berlin, Longlist 2024; Sony World Photography Award, Winner Object category 2023; FotoFestival Lenzburg ‘RE:SOURCES’, Winner 2022; Open Image Barcelona Winner 2021; Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2020; British Photography Awards ‘Contours’, Winner 2019 and Chromatic International Photography and British Photography Awards in 2019.
“Mieke is an award-winning photographer whose work is a love letter to light” Art Rendezvous
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