Bert Vangerven

Bert Vangerven creates metal sculpture, assemblage and mixed-media work using plaster, glass, metal, wood and found materials.

I have been involved with art for a long time. I enjoy assemblage and mixed media, which I use in both sculpture and painting. My favourite materials are plaster, glass, metal and wood. I combine them with all kinds of found and discarded materials. Whatever I encounter along the way may end up in my studio, where sooner or later it is given a second life.

I am always looking for new materials and techniques through which to express myself. Art is my world and a major part of my life.

It has become my second language. I work my feelings, emotions, desires, dreams and experiences into my paintings and sculptures. I hope the works create some response in people and touch them in one way or another.

Training

• Academy of Temse: glass art
• CVO Lokeren: welding
• Academy of Ghent: sculpture and mixed media
• Walter De Buck: two years of stone carving
• Holstraat, Ghent: gas fusion welding
• Sint-Lucas, Ghent: drawing and painting

Solo exhibitions

• Huyze Saeftinghe, Onder de toren, Lissewege, 7 July 2017 to end of June 2020
• Open Gardens, Laarne, courtyard exhibition with Bert and William Roobrouck, 24-25 June 2017
• Art Route, Kortemark, May and June 2017
• Heusden Sculpture Garden, 2012
• Heusden Sculpture Garden, 2007