Fenestra Ateliers

Profile of Fenestra Ateliers

Business Name

Fenestra Ateliers

Location

Belgium

Services

Product Design

Website

http://www.fenestra-ateliers.biz

[L-R] Jan-Willem van Zijst, Angela van der Burght, Sunny van Zijst

In 1985 Angela van der Burght took over the studio of her father, the glass artist Andre van der Burght.  In 1994, having completed her training at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunst in Tilburg, Sunny van Zijst joined Fenestra Ateliers. Her special interest in theatrical design provides the driving force behind her work in developing dramatic design in glass.  As well as contributing to the collective work of the studio, she has also worked on her own glass collection.  Death and reliquaries form the subject and theme of her work, so that, in the protection which it gives to its contents, the "casket" becomes the object which gives autonomous meaning to the whole.

Angela provides the concepts and ideas and Jan-Willem executes the work involved.

Coming originally from a background in industrial design, they have a particular interest in the process of creative design, the application of flat glass in architecture and interior design, and the blown-glass objects which have become such a feature of the modern habitat.

Jan-Willem van Zijst

• Born 24.3.1945, Zeist, Netherlands
• Training: Academie voor Industriele Vormgeving, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Academie voor Schonen Kunsten, Hasselt, Belgium
• Trained as a stained-glass artist in the studio of Andre van der Burght, Achel, Belgium
• Activities: teaching and lecturing in colleges, glass academies, master classes and workshops all over the world

Angela van der Burght

• Born 14.3.1949, The Hague, Netherlands
• Training: Academie voor Industriele Vormgeving, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Kunst Gewerbe Schule, Zurich, Switzerland
• Activities: previously engaged in teaching art in various colleges in the Netherlands; now works as curator and organizer of various exhibitions, catalogues and conferences in Benelux and abroad.
  Prepares lectures and papers for conferences all over the world and is general editor www.glassfriends.org, for the Dutch Society of Friends of Modern Glass www.glas2006.nl, and general editor of This Side Up!, a world wide glass art magazine www.this-side-up-magazine.com, and curator Sculpture Biennale Kijkduin 2007.

Sunny van Zijst

• Born 30.5.1973, Neerpelt, Belgium
• Training: Academie voor Beeldende Kunst, Tilburg, Theatre Department
• Design work; read for a master's degree in theatrical design in Utrecht and Prague.
  Flat glass master classes in 1994 in Maastricht, Netherlands and in 1995 in Alden Biesen, Bilzen, Belgium; assisted at the flat glass master class held in 1996 in Kleinlutzel, CH
• Activities: in addition to various exhibitions of glass design and theatrical design, active in a number of organizations involved with the theatre, musical drama and jazz music.
• Third partner and glass designer with Fenestra Ateliers CV. She opened a new gallery this year 'Het Magazijn voor Kunstartikelen' - www.kunstartikelen.com