Via the stimulating Material Matters podcast, we learned about Christien Meindertsma‘s work with wool. She is a Dutch artist/designer who explores creative applications with two local materials: wool and flax. Amazingly, using ‘waste’ wool from sheep raised in the city of Rotterdam, she manages to print three-dimensional forms using cutting-edge technology.
Currently, she has an exhibition, ‘Re-forming Waste,’ at the V&A in London, which runs through Saturday, the 19th of October, 2024.
For more information about her show and to watch a video of some of her fascinating projects, visit this page on the V&A’s website – https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/christien-meindertsma-re-forming-waste
Meindertsma’s website catalogues her many thought-provoking explorations of wool. One of her research projects, Fibre Market, used a Fibersort machine to scan 1000 wool sweaters. The machine revealed differences between the information indicated on the material tags and the actual fibre content. Not unsurprisingly, the actual wool content was less.
Visit her website to see more of her intriguing work – https://christienmeindertsma.com/
Lastly, here’s a link to the interview with her on the Material Matters Podcast – https://materialmatters.design/Christien-Meindertsma
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