After graduating from the Rietveld Art Academy, Mo Verlaan (1963) started out in experimental theatre, creating sets on location as well as performing. Her love for travelling and cooking made Mo found the company De Drie Gezusters catering to (inter)national...
Read MoreAfter graduating from the Rietveld Art Academy, Mo Verlaan (1963) started out in experimental theatre, creating sets on location as well as performing. Her love for travelling and cooking made Mo found the company De Drie Gezusters catering to (inter)national filmcrews from a converted truck.
A growing passion for photography made her enter the Photo Academy. Later she studied for a year at Atelier Smedsby and attended masterclasses in analog photography with Dirk Braeckman, Anders Petersen and Machiel Botman.
She also studied handmade bookbinding and Toyobo printmaking which resulted in Book of Light, handmade book objects printed on Japanese washi paper.
Mo was invited for a SWATCH Residency in 2022, during the residency she developed the serie Book of Light. Very recently she artist in resident at Chateau du Fresne in France, where she created Blank, an artist book.
Mo and her wife Nita Voorham had been working on a joint art book As The Magic Hour Shifts. Together with Nita, they were selected as an artist couple to create a large photographic installation at the Convitto Palmieri in Lecce. Parts of the old convent are being turned into a permanent Museum of Contemporary Art The Living Archives, curated by Alec von Bargen.
Unfortunately Nita has passed away in November 2022 and Mo will continue these projects on her own.
Mo was Winner 2nd Prize Single Image Analog/Fine Art with 'Portrait of My Love Nita Curled Up_Chine Colle Washi Paper', at IPA and TIFA 2023.
She was the Overall Winner Single Image with self-portraits from Book of Light at the 19th JM Cameron Award in 2022.
The series Undercurrent was Winner of The Photo Award at The Mt. Rokko Int. Photography Festival 2019 in Kobe.
She was Finalist at the Hariban Award in 2016.
