by | Mar 7, 2023 | backstage
experience Backstage tour If you are looking for a different and intimate experience with a local artist, you should visit Evelien Sipkes in Bandabou! She produces ceramics, jewelry, wearable art, objects from mixed media. In her private backstage tour you will visit...
by Kuki+Ko | Apr 28, 2026 | news
Born in Amsterdam in 1955, Evelien Sipkes spent part of her childhood in Curaçao and returned to the island in 1996, where she has continued to live and work. Her artistic practice spans ceramics, contemporary jewellery, wearable art, and mixed media, and is marked by...
by | Mar 5, 2023 | stories
story Spines In May 2018 I fell on my back. Initially I thought I would be ok after 10 minutes, after a few days, after 3 weeks… but it took more than a year to be able to function kind of normal again. In the meantime, I couldn’t resist being in the studio now and...
by | Nov 2, 2022 | cooking
cooking Dishes I cook all dishes from scratch, using fresh local produce wherever...
by | Feb 27, 2023 | stories
story Maintaining my old house One day, and I still don’t know what made me do this, I began making tiny ceramic pieces smaller than a square cm each – hundreds of them. After firing them 2 or 3 times with glaze, and some with gold luster, I just left them on my...
by | Jun 21, 2022 | stories
story Corona lockdown Isn’t it weird what the lockdowns and all the corona rules did with us?I don’t think my experience was very different from all the other people around the world who had to deal with this, and still I felt quite alone with all these emotions. The...
by | Feb 12, 2023 | stories
story Ingredients of Curaçao I was asked to make dinner tableware for a couple who spent some time on Curacao. They wanted to bring something home from the island, and gave me ‘carte blanche’ to add ingredients from Curacao nature and society. One of the ingredients...
by | Feb 23, 2022 | stories
story The Narcissist The narcissist: a person with two faces.Left the nice one, the helpful one, the charmer. Light colours, golden yarn and strass.Carved wood and bamboo, a decorated frame. Right the unreliable one, the one without empathy, the egoist. Dark colours,...
by | Feb 20, 2023 | stories
story Amulets Every place has its own spiritual habits and symbols. And it’s not always clear whether they are about superstition or traditional healing methods, still in use, handed down the generations. I’ve chosen some of these local phenomena and interpreted them...
by | Jul 30, 2020 | stories
story Dealing with emotional pain Feeling emotional abandoned by your parents is painful. Somehow you have to find a way to get over that, how to turn the pain into gain. PagaraNecklace – earthenware nails, gold leaf, iron wire, linen – ?? – 2013...
