Zine Camp came and went.

It was an intense and lovely experience to organise and host Zine Camp this year. So much energy was floating in the air, people creating zines on every table, talking and sharing, learning and expanding their circle of friends. Truly magic. It felt like Rotterdam was craving for something like this to happen.

More photos here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1584900601727512/

 Photo by Florian Cramer. 

Photo by Florian Cramer, on the left. 

Zine Camp 2015

Together with Tim Braakman and Amy Suo Wu from Studio Eyesberg, we've been busy organising the second edition of Zine Camp, on the 9th and 10th of May at WORM. 

More info here: http://zinecamp2015.hotglue.me/

Online sale of "SCALE:" prints

Check out DAMAGE website!
http://www.damageclothing.com/webshop/art

SCALE:

Last summer Anniek Tijmes and I came up with the idea of doing a series of illustrations about the topic of human vs. architecture scale in Rotterdam. This city has a peculiar way of dealing with it, to many architects it's specially attractive because this allows a sense of freedom and experimentation
while designing a building or an urban space.

Fast forward a few months, and we were having our opening at Damage Playground! It was an interesting evening rounded up by a debate with talkers Jason Hilgefort, Daphne Bakker and Marcos Rodríguez talking about their views and ideas of the topic we proposed. Floor Cornelisse moderated the talk.

The illustrations will be showing at Damage (Rotterdam) until mid March, so if you're in town, don't miss them!

Photo by Frank Hanswijk

Photo by Frank Hanswijk

Photo by Frank Hanswijk

Here is one of the illustrations I did. This one is the market square (when the market isn't on). 

It's called Binnenrotte. 

Project day at WDKA - zine workshop.

Due to the latest news in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo offices, this project day was organised. Different workshops were help to understand the power of images in the media, related to news. I was in charge of a zine workshop, the participants were free to chose the topic to illustrate. Most of them chose feminism. It was a fun day and we got a nice risographed zine by the end of it. 

Ending the year with a Pothead sale.

The last few months of 2014 I worked on a series of ceramic pieces called Potheads. After a bit of stress and uncertainty (glazing is a temperamental thing), I finally got the pieces ready to sell before Christmas. I was so happy to sell them all! 

Our new studio space, Indeks, is coming along nicely. We are now ready to start hosting events. More news soon!

Below are photos of my Potheads and the studio opening. It was a great end to 2014. 

Bring it on, 2015!

The whole Pothead family just hangin'.

Supportive friends. 

Sgrafitto and hanging vases.

I'm loving working with clay more and more.

I've been experimenting with some sgrafitto to get hairy textures. 

Sgrafitto samples, to see which one I like best. 

This was my favourite. 

Hanging vases.
I still have to decide what colour these are going to be.
I'm thinking something with speckles might be nice.

New studio, new adventures.

Together with Tim Braakman and Amy Suo Wu, we have found a new working space we are making look nice and cosy. We have two floors, one of them on street level. This will allow us to showcase our work and others. It will be an open space for different types of activities, we want to keep it open. We shall see what the future holds. I'm excited about this new phase!

Potato Pilots

The Potato Pilots project is finished and open for the public to go and see. 

Check my website to see all the photos: http://rachelsender.com/Potato-Pilots

Illustrations for Pineut liquors

Pineut is renewing their identity and they asked me to do this series of illustrations to implement in their new image. They sell all the ingredients (except the alcohol) for you to brew your own liquor. 

I recommend them, they're suprinsingly tasty with the added value of DIYing your own booze. 

Potato Pilots - collaboration with Henriette Waal.

I'm working with the artist and designer Henriette Waal on a super fun and interesting project, all about potato farms around Schiphol airport. It's turning out to be a big illustration project. More info on it soon. For now, a sneak peak of my illustrations. (Photo taken from my new studio!)

I love getting a peak into a specialised field. Now potatoes seem
a LOT more important to me.

Pot Heads put to use.

These Pot Heads I made some months ago are finally hosting plants. It’s harder than you’d think to find the perfect hair- plant.