Eva Dijkstra

Bio

Eva Dijkstra is co-founder and creative director at design studio ‘Design by Toko’. Clients include: The White Rabbit Gallery, The Australian Institute of Architects, Architecture Institute Rotterdam and The Danish Agency for Culture. Eva co-curated and designed the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy in 2012, and in 2016 her work was honoured with a coveted membership at the Alliance Graphique International in Switzerland, whose memberships are on invite only, and currently counts only a few hundred leading designers, artists and creatives worldwide. It was her work as a graphic designer which initiated Eva’s work as an artist. Most notably the annual report for the City of The Hague in 2004 where she turned graphs into works of abstract geometric art. It was this commission which brought her under the spell of numbers and data, and continues to inform her art practice today.

Artist Statement

Eva Dijkstra’s work draws on the language of minimalism and hard-edge abstraction. Straddling the junction between painting and sculpture, and art and design. Presenting itself as non-objective, it is after closer investigation, the work’s true meaning reveals itself. Each of the works finds its origins in data, such as the World Happiness Index, and global temperature rise. Eva meticulously dissects and translates these numbers into precisely crafted diagrams. After this initial process the work seemingly ‘develops itself’ into bold and colourful compositions. Both exact and abstract. Eva primarily works with shaped canvasses and composite wall objects, which is part of her ongoing quest to marry the 2-D with the 3-Dimensional. Hidden shapes underneath the canvas hinting on both the underlying diagrams and obscured meaning underpinning each work.