This workshop will be followed by a bookbinding workshop on 23 May, where you can use your dyed fabric to make a book cover.

About Nina van Hartskamp

Nina van Hartskamp (1990) is a multidisciplinary artist and plant dyer based in the Netherlands. Her work revolves around the entangled relationship between humanity and the natural environment, driven by a fundamental question: "How can humanity thrive in harmony with the Earth?" Drawing from her educational background in conceptual art from the Rietveld Academy, theater studies in Belgium and her extensive travels, Nina merges her deep admiration for the natural world, with storytelling and textile arts, often combining organic materials, natural processes, and other-then-human-entities like plants and microbes with personal human narratives. She is currently working on a new project where she explores the connection between the handling of native and exotic plants and our relationship to national identity.

Nina and her Natural Dye Practice

Since 2014, Nina has been involved with the traditional craft of natural dyes. In her year-long apprenticeship by meeting textile dyer and environmental activist Kate Fletcher in Tasmania, Australia, she gained extensive hands-on experience in printing and dyeing textiles with plants. In the many years that followed, Nina has cultivated a wealth of expertise and facilitated numerous workshops in dyeing and printing with plants all over the world. Nina utilises the potential of plant dyes to foster sustainable awareness, personal development, and cultivate connections with local environments and communities, whether in urban, rural, or natural surroundings.