JELLE VAN DEN BERG

There is a lightness to Jelle van den Berg’s work. His performances, paintings, watercolours and ceramics appear to be controlled by space. Cyclical and reflexive, he seems to return to ideas over time, as if in a constant conversation with the near and the far.

YOU WERE BORN IN THE NETHERLANDS. WHEN DID

you move to Australia?

I was here in 1982 visiting family and that is when I met Debra Dawes. We spent six months in the Netherlands and came back here because she was studying at Sydney College of the Arts. In that period we started a small gallery called