Thermoplastic, latex, nylon, glasspearls
Innocence
Pearls and sterling silver
Steel
Lace, tulle, pearls, 18 carat gold gilded silver
Sterling silver, thermoplastic, textile, metal, PLA
Leather, metal, thermoplastic
Hide in Lace
2026
Thrianta
Antique lace, wood and waxed linnen thread.
75 x 60
‘Hide in Lace’ explores what happens when two opposites come together. I transform fragile lace, long associated with femininity, intimacy and innocence, into animal hides. For the works, I reuse old veils, nightgowns, doilies and bridal fabrics, materials carrying their own histories. In contrast, the stretched hide evokes ideas of power, masculinity, tension and violence. Bringing these images together, I explore where strength begins and vulnerability ends.
Starting from this visual fascination, I began looking at the symbolic language surrounding animals and the ways they are used to describe women and their bodies. By translating these animal metaphors into material, I try to reimagine these associations.
I stretch the lace tightly across wooden frames, pushing the material to its limits. As the lace resists, a hidden strength becomes visible. The tension gives the material a bodily feel, almost skin-like.
Havana
Antique lace, wood and waxed linnen thread.
75 x 60
The hides in Thrianta and Havana have the shape of a flayed rabbit, a figure that evokes both innocence and associations with fertility and sexuality. This contradiction mirrors the way femininity is often constructed and projected. By translating the rabbit hide into lace, a material equally bound to ideas of purity, intimacy and desire, these tensions take on a physical form. In this work, I want to quite literally take this projection of femininity apart, turn it inside out and stretch it to its limits, to challenge the way it has been shaped and held in place.
Publication ‘Bread & Bones‘
Self published
2026
Bread & Bones moves between body and earth, nourishment and decay. It traces the gestures of women’s hands: kneading dough, mending bones, grinding grain, where care and ritual meet. Bread is shaped for offerings, celebrations, and rites of passage, while bones are burned, buried and adorned on the body. Both mark thresholds between the sacred and the everyday. Bones are broken in gestures of good luck and fortune, as bread is broken in sharing and quiet sanctity. Discovering these hidden intersections, what first appears as a strange combination, reveals an ancient intimacy between sustenance and structure, touch and transformation.
Helsinki Central Library Oodi
Helsinki Central Library Oodi
Theater Performance – RAUW
PC Art Paviljoen, Amsterdam, 2025
Wearable art pieces
Pearl, garnet, sterling silver, thermoplastic
Pearl, garnet, thermoplastic
Boetsters – Duo exhibition with Luna Deckers
Kunstruimte H47, Leeuwarden 2024
Net(werk) explores the history of the boetsters, women who repaired fishing nets together within coastal communities in the Netherlands. Drawing from 20th century archival photographs, regional costumes, inherited materials and family memories, Alma Teer connects their overlooked labour to the present.
Using traditional netting and textile techniques, she creates fishing nets, lace bonnets, objects and installations. Cotton fishing twine inherited from her grandmother and gemstones from a family necklace become materials through which personal and collective histories intertwine.
The fishing net becomes both material and metaphor: a structure that connects, holds and supports, but can also entangle and confine. Through collaboration with her mother and the study of archival images, Teer traces the transmission of textile knowledge between generations, while bringing the anonymous women who maintained these traditions back into view.
Bamboo, lace, linnen, metal
Bamboo, linnen, satin, metal
Bamboo, lace, tule, metal
Bamboo, lace, satin, tule, metal
‘Mijn Vissersmeisje’
O, hoor de golfjes kabb’len
Tegen slagzijde aan
Zo gaat ook door jouw babb’len
Vol gloed mijn harte slaan!
Stuur naar de oever henen,
Zit naast mij in het zand,
Dan zing ‘k als een Sirene
Voor jou alleen aan ’t strand!
Mijn vissersmeisje
Kom waag het reisje
Zing van mijn wijsje
Het blij refrein
Het vissersleven
Kan vreugde geven
Wendt dan de steven
’t Zal heerlijk zijn!
Dutch designers Yearbook, 2022
Published By nai010
Thesis: ‘ A Vestigial Re-velation’, 2022
Group exhibition ‘Cruising, discomfort as a tool to depatriarchise design‘, Huidenclub,(Rotterdam), 2022
‘The Best Jewellery A Woman Can Wear Is Her Smile’
Thermoplastic, latex, nylon, glasspearls
Innocence
Pearls and sterling silver
Steel
Lace, tulle, pearls, 18 carat gold gilded silver
Sterling silver, thermoplastic, textile, metal, PLA
Leather, metal, thermoplastic
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Graduation Show, 2022
The Best Jewellery A Woman Can Wear Is Her Smile
Smiling is one of the most common social reflexes of our time, a communication tool for expressing happiness. But a complexity of emotions lies behind this friendly gesture.
My family of ‘smile devices’ questions the influence of history, society, social media and sexuality on the social behaviour of smiling. By forcing the wearer to smile I want to create awareness about those habits of our bodies that go unnoticed in daily life.
By exploring femininity through form and material, I want to connect generations of women sharing the same universal experience of being perceived by the ‘male gaze’. Reclaiming the power over our bodies, our behaviour and our sensuality without being judged.
Men passing by telling unknown women to smile. Contributing to centuries of expectations imposed upon the female body. These pieces tell the real stories that can be found behind a seemingly simple smile.
2021
Life is Heart I & II
“Life is Heart” is a captivating dance performance by Alma Teer and Nina Teer. This collaborative project between two sisters; an artist and a professional dance performer, delves into the intricate relationship between the mind and the body’s organs. Highlighting the often alienating disconnection humans experience with their own physical body.
The harsh rhythm creates a tangible experience, a synthetical heartbeat beating far away in your chest. Its aim to express the gap between internal physiological processes and conscious awareness through inviting the audience to explore the profound connections within their own bodies.
2021
Jan Hanlo Essayprijs
Alma’s initial inspiration derived form a paper plane that in its innocence and fragility contrasts sharply with the noisy airplanes described by Jan Hanlo in his poem ‘Never Quiet Again’. To transform this concept into a trophy, Alma recalled her first memory of a ceremony, namely the awarding of her swimming diploma.
The trophy is a hand-calligraphed certificate that was first signed by the jury’s chair and the prize winner, then folded into a paper plane and handed over to the prize winner by air. The awarding explored both the trophy as an object and the moment when someone is honored as a winner.
2021
RIETVELD – HUYGENS EXCHANGE.
‘What has Huygens ever done for us?”
Inspired by small scented bags filled with herbs and spices called ‘sweet bags’ from the 16th century, Alma imagines an archeological find from the covid pandemic.
