Petra Lunenburg ( 1974) born Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Graduating as fashion designer at ARTEZ Arnhem in 1996, she has
since been working as a graphic designer and illustrator for fashion labels, magazines as well as for her own brand IL’L.
Focusing on illustration over the last few years she has
developed as
a fine artist creating a highly feminine, free and suggestive style. Her
distinctive signature whose raw minimalistic abstraction creates a sense of ambiguity, influenced from both fashion and fine art history such as
René Bouché and Egon Schiele. She has explored her passion for nudes
in a variety of media incorporating marker,
ink, crayon and acrylic on
paper. Petra Lunenburg reveals a world of allure created by sensuous
and seductive portrayals of her subjects.
Recent studies in life figure drawing at NYC’s Art Students League
has led to the exhibition New York Creatures and the release of the
book Rope Girls with an ongoing development in application and experimentation resulting in Hazy Dolls; a show which took place
in NYC in 2011. Alongside her main practice she has an extensive catalogue of commissions from clients such as G-Star, Adidas, Nike,
Yarn Unit, ELLE, Red and Grazia in recent years.
Petra: ‘I am interested in capturing anything beyond the
physicality of my subjects.
Visualizing energetic rhythms of human figures, movements,
expressions and looks is what I am conveying, ideally fully guided by
my lines.’