I am an Artist, Designer, Author and Mentor based in Vienna, Austria.
Over my career to date I’ve been fortunate to work with brands like Alessi, Absolut Vodka, Alfa Romeo, Lebook, Wallpaper City Guide, Rudulf Budja, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, Porsche,… I have had my art published in Illustration Now (Taschen Verlag), Dezeen, Wallpaper Magazine and many others.
The intersection between real life and voyeurism via social media, creating an avatar or “fictitious” persona, illustration, art and design is my home. I also specialize in WRITING (free flow), JOURNALING, PATTERNS/ORNAMENTS, INTERIOR DESIGN and ILLUSTRATION.
A multi-technique artist, I hand make and print almost every surface: from porcelain to printed textiles, printed leather and wallpapers. My techniques range from hand-printed and hand-illustrated with china ink, marker pen or biro pen, to digital prints on leather and furniture…. Working from my UNIQUE life-experience which includes being coaches by world-class athletes, I play with provocation and agitation techniques, especially focussing on adding my talent to the finishings of luxury cars and objects, planners, as well as emails and digital media…
My style is spontaneous and simple. I usually work first by hand: illustrations which are then vectorised, and later transformed into silkscreen, or digital prints, social media content, etc. I do not prepare anything in advance, my work is fuelled by “stream of consciousness” and I call myself an „uncontrollable missile“ as to the outcome of the work.
Two of my themes are „sexuality“ and „(wo)man-machine”.
Initially my art was a playful exploration of the image of the woman - or more precisely housewife and mother - simultaneously sexualised and abused.
My designs and emails/written words were a real-time documentation of the destruction of expectations, roll and gender positions.
My pornamental experiments embrace illusions of sexuality, eroticism, humour, word play/emails/self exploration as a way to break out but also as an eternal imprisonment.
The pornament and WORD is used as a controversial means to hide but also to subverge from power structures.
Embedded in an artistic and social media context my life-long exploration has won general interest in the last years.
Tracey Emin, Parastou Frouhar, Shirin Neshat, Sarah Morris, Sakshi Gupta. Raqib Shaw, Hema Upadhyay, Philip Taaffe and other artists can be named as similar.
The difference between those artists and myself is that I code my art as real life and in this way bring my art back into the context from which it’s trying to escape.
The material of this artistic non-adaptation is from the privacy of my home to the public in real time but also using ways to confuse about the realness of this endeavour.
Since Corona I have developed social media skills and have been absorbed by journaling.
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My work has three pillars:
a) Pornaments and patterns
b) Social media growth and making money online
c) Journaling and courses about art and planners.
In more recent years I explored the power of social media and explored how to leverage Instagram to make my art more well-known to a wider public.
This experience helped me meet “clients” from Bangladesh (who became team members), London (who became good friends), the US and many more countries.
My social media account grew from 0 to 40k followers in as little as 8 months. However I was not satisfied and decided to close the account.
Recently I bought several houses which I am renovating to showcase the nature of my interior design and ornaments as a showroom.
Finally I made a Porsche Cayenne 2003 with my patterns.