Larisa Sjoerds is an artist, art teacher, educational
designer and museum guide. As an artist her favorite medium is ink, she creates
intriguing, large format (1x2m) sepia drawings of abstracted human figures on
paper. Her latest series of drawings are derived of patterns in the human
brain damaged by dementia.
About her art she states; ‘Our emotions and instincts can
be very disturbing and intriguing. They influence and even possess our lives.
Somewhere deep within our body and cells a variety of processes take place.
Whether it is an ovulation, the spring of sexual thoughts or the welling hop of
a violent reaction. It are these hidden processes, thoughts, emotions and
instincts that I want to visualize. Development of this imagination is as organic and intuitive as the (dis)functioning of our body.”
In her freelance work for art museums she is passionate
about interactive tour guiding techniques, especially facilitating dialogues
around the art of observing. As an art teacher she enjoys stimulating creative
processes and developing visual literacy. Her most recent projects are an
educational program for secondary school students about facts and fiction
around value and appreciation of art, a self-guided drawing book for an art
museum and training Visible Thinking Routines in the museum to teachers of
Hogeschool Rotterdam and museum guides in several (art) museums.
