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	Curriculum Vitae
2007	Production of the movie "Een beeld van Ramses Shaffy en Jeroen Spijker" Production of CD-rom "32 nudes" In this period Jeroen creates several pasteldrawings Study trip to Florence and Paris portrait bust Ramses Shaffy
2006	Small study young Rembrandt in bronze is auctioned for 20.000 Euro Jeroen shows bronze sculptures in Ward Nasse Gallery, Soho, New York City in autumn. Jeroen Spijker makes the bronze statue of the young Rembrandt (Stichting Rembrandt Gala).
2005	Formation Exotic Aesthetic Movement, with the painter Gijs Donker (former member After Nature Movement); Jeroen works in chateau Boirs, Bassange, Belgium.
2004	Study trip to Milan/ portrait bust of HRH Prince Bernard made/ study trip to Rome / National Museum of Holland (Rijksmuseum) attempts to purchase the portrait bust of Pim Fortuyn.
2003 - 2005	UNESCO Ambassador (United Nations) curator collection UNESCO Centrum Nederland
2002 - 2003	Portrait bust of Marten Toonder made/ Study trip to Madrid.
2001 - 2003	Teacher Crafts/ Cultural and Artistic training/ Expressive training at the Amsterdam Lyceum (high school).
2001	Portrait bust of professor Pim Fortuyn made in a TV programme in the course of five broadcasts. Teacher Crafts/ Cultural and Artistic training/ Expressive training at the Bonaventura College in Leiden. Study trip to the South of France. Teacher of model claying at Ars Aemula Naturae in Leiden
1998 - 2000	Policy advisor/ Curator of the artists guild Ars Aemula Naturae in Leiden. Actual size busts as well as several small human figures are created in personal atelier.
1997	Graduated with a degree in Art History from the University of Leiden.
1996  - 1998	Hewing in granite and Belgian bluestone.
1995 - 2000	Founder and owner of Mercurius Leiden; a pool of art dealers, galleries and artists on the Internet.
1995	Honourable mention and cash prize for design competition of the Cleveringaplaats commissioned by the University of Leiden.
1994	Second study trip to Florence
1993	First commission of a sculptor in stone. Theoretical training in the area of sculpture in a seminar given by Dr. Louk Tilanus (University of Leiden). Study trip to Florence.
1991	Passed foundation courses at the University of Leiden. Busts done in bronze and terra cotta. Female figures are also a theme. Contacts laid with other sculptors in Leiden.
1990  - 1991	Student of sculptor Beatus Nijs in Hilversum. Models made from examples and drawings made of nudes. First modelled portraits are made in this period.
1988	VWO- diploma Alberdink Thijm College in Hilversum Started studying Art History at the University of Leiden.
1985	Took clay modelling lessons in Soest

	Expositions:
2007	Gallery Ward Nasse, New York City (Soho) Galerie Piculiar, Leiden Studio 2000, Blaricum Estate Olmenhorst, Lisserbroek
2006	Gallery Ward Nasse, New York City (Soho) PAN Amsterdam kunstbeurs Studio 2000, Blaricum Galerie Piculiar, Leiden Nederlands Strip Museum Groningen
2005	Expositie Regthuys, Nieuwkoop/ exposition bust of Marten Toonder at the publishing-firm De bezige Bij, Amsterdam
2004	Studio Arcese in Leiden Teachers’ exhibition Ars Aemula Naturae in Leiden
2003	Seven group exhibition in Atelier Jacques Turk in Leiden Presentation at Van der Bijl in Leiden Open atelier route, atelier exhibition
2002 - 2004	Gallery Art Deco in Leiden Gallery Janknecht in Laren (together with Kees Verkade and Arthur Spronken) Teachers’ exhibition artists guild Ars Aemula Naturae in Leiden
2000 - 2004	Art Gallery Paul Verbeeck in Antwerp (one of the leading galleries in Antwerp - art magazine Tableau spring 2004-)
2000	Gallery Cantera on the Oudegracht in Utrecht Trebosch van Lelyveld in the Nieuwe Spiegelstraat in Amsterdam
1999 - 2000	Portrait store Haarlem
1999	Galerie Anna Paulownahuis te Soest
1999	Kunstsite Mercurius Leiden
1998	Group exhibition Sidac gallery
1997	Art site Mercurius Leiden

Jeroen Spijker’s work can be found in various collections in the Netherlands and abroad.

Musée Rodin Paris

Artistic development:

Jeroen Spijker clayed a lot as a child. During the senior years of high school his interest for sculpting became stronger with Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa being a favourite of his. He was quite interested in figurative sculpting. During art classes a certain talent for sculpting could be seen. After high school he studied Art History at the University of Leiden. However, the urge to make sculptures himself became stronger and he decided to take lessons from the figurative sculptor Beatus Nijs. Nijs, 82 years old at that time, could rely on a lifetime of experience and command of classic sculpting techniques. (he worked with the famous architect Duiker and made sculptures for hospital "Zonnestraal", a very famous Dutch monument of architecture). The knowledge gained during these lessons was applied in the period that followed. Portrait busts became a particularly loved subject. The rendering of grace, character and inner contemplation are recurring aspects in Spijker's work.

Museum of Modern Art New York

Note: Jeroen Spijker lives in a house at the "Nieuwe Rijn", the river in the center of Leiden, in wich a bookstore was situated in the 17th century.
Rembrandt van Rijn must have visited this bookstore at his time. His spirit inspires Jeroen Spijker.





'A sculpture must be a haven, you should be able to have an enjoyable relationship with it.'

Exotic Aesthetic Movement

Manifesto

• In our work we emphasize on the beauty of exotic subjects



• Because of the many exotic genes in our society, beautiful hybrides arise. We focus on them in our art
  
  
• Aesthetics in art are a basic right of existance for art it selves. Artistic aesthetics give joy, surprise and leads away from the daily life.
  
  
• By putting emphasis on the exotic we will appriciate our own world in the west more. We will see the beauty of it even better.
  
  
• Aesthetics are something else than superficiality in our work.
  
  

Jeroen Spijker / Gijs Donker