On Valentine’s Day the Terra Delft staff & friends created a sandsculpture at the Dutch seafront to support their Chinese friends in their struggle against the corona-virus. Chinese national newspaper picked up this chesture and announced it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_SPFh3u7mM
Article written by Mechtild Paauwe for the November edition of Clay Ceramics Magazine 2019 Aboriginal art is known for its dots. Nowadays, China is working to put the patterns of the Majiayao culture on the map. If you look at the modern lines on this pottery, you don’t expect it to be 5000 years old!…
Simone Haak is back in Sanbao-Jingdezhen. Together with the artists Wilma Bosland (NL), Heide Nonnenmacher (D), Demi Tokutake (J) and assisted by Sierra Looijkens (NL) they go for a adventurous artist-in-residence project in the porcelain capital of China. Wellcome dinner at Sanbao restaurant
“Beauty overcomes differences. Sharing fosters growth.” The name ZhenXi in Chinese means ‘act with love, devote your heart to something’. It is clear from the work in this exhibition that the two artists, Li Zhen and Xi Meng – the Chinese name of Simone Haak – are infused with this sentiment. Simone, who together with…
Today, 14 September 2016, Simone Haak, owner of Terra Delft Gallery, is leaving to China with five artists of the Gallery. After a visit to Shanghai, where of course the ceramic department of the Shanghai Museum is visited they travel further to Jingdezhen, twinned city of Delft. In the international ceramic institute Sanbao-Jingdezhen, they can…
On the wall of the Stanislas College in Delft a hugh mural is accomplished by Wenna from Beijing. During her artist-in-residence stay in Delft, in 2015, Wenna was invited to realize a large wall painting in Delft. A wall of the Stanislascollege was decorated, in cooperation with students and neighbours. The colourfull painting tells a…
A comprehensive article was published in the Craft Arts Magazine #86 2012 written by Colin Martin about the artist-in-residence project by Terra last summer in the Ceramic Art Institute Sanbao, Jingdezhen. During 6 weeks 5 artists from Terra Delft Gallery worked there daar in cooporation with Chinese artists to accomplish a collection to be shown…