Jet Nuij

Jet Nuij (1959) lives and works in Simpelveld and has been active as a visual artist since 2012. Before that, she ran her own weaving studio for over 20 years, where she worked on hand-woven clothing collections and designed fabrics commissioned by various fashion agencies. Her collections were exhibited and sold in several national and international galleries.
She has taught as a textile workforms teacher at the Vrije Akademie Parkstad and Het Nieuwe Domijn in Sittard and developed textile workforms workshops for primary schools commissioned by Schunck in Heerlen.

About her work
Jet Nuij’s work includes installations with slide projections, two-dimensional works on paper and textiles and performances. It often forms snapshots within a long-term research project in which she examines, transforms and archives the vulnerability, loss and transience of memories. Starting point are often tangible carriers of the past such as photographs and videotapes, which she manipulates by destroying parts of the image. Stored memories become unrecognisable, what remains is an abstract trace a “map of memory”.
She also works with textiles, wood, concrete, old newspapers or water-soluble substances. She deforms, destroys and allows her work to slowly dissolve or disappear, with the material itself becoming part of the narrative.