#thirza schaap

[arinewman7]

After the summer, he left

Thirza Schaap

Acrylic on canvas, 2025

[sesiondemadrugada]

Thirza Schaap.

[thephotoregistry]

Thirza Schaap

[internationalemeteorologie]

Thirza Schaap

White king. 2019

Beehive. 2017

Japonais. 2018

Black friday. 2018

Cape doctor. 2019

Waterlilies too. 2018

Showtime. 2020

Vanda. 2020

from Plastic Ocean series

in Bildhalle

[oculablog]

Thirza Schaap showtime, 2020 Archival pigment print Courtesy Bildhalle.

[staged-photography]

Thirza Schaap

Plastic Ocean

Artist Statement:

“As a child, I would walk over beaches and through fields and forests to collect beautiful shells, shimmering stones, feathers and funnily shaped branches. Much later, after I had moved from Holland to South Africa, I found myself doing the same thing. Only to discover, that I started filling my pockets with trash instead of treasure. Plastic from the Ocean. Colourful and beautiful in its own tragic way. ‘Plastic Ocean’ is an art project, which I started to create awareness around pollution to try and prevent (or at least reduce) the use of plastic. In making artistic sculptures out of the objects I find, I try to evoke an emotional response from my audience by creating a contradiction. A clash between initial aesthetic attraction and after a second look: repulsion and the realisation of the tragedy trash causes.”

Thanks, Thirza, for submitting. Staged Photography likes your light, playful approach, and understated yet clever compositions through skillful use of color, collage, light and dimensionality.

[arinewman7]

Thirza Schaap

[howard-philips-wintermute]

Thirza Schaap