The studio’s work demonstrates Lola’s unique combination of creative and technical skills, along with her passion for invention, collaboration and problem solving.
Lola's creative process involves a dialogue between precision and intuition, the digital and the handmade. She integrates engineering principles and computational design with the tactile slowness of traditional craftsmanship. Through this intersection, she aims to design and make objects and mechanisms that exhibit surprising motion and transformation – pieces that move, change or invite interaction with the viewer. Her practice spans intimate, body-worn pieces to larger sculptural works and installations.
From an early age Sydney-born Lola has been enthusiastic about art making. (Read about 9-year old Lola’s Daisy Chain project HERE.) That passion to make also led her to study engineering at the University of Melbourne after being inspired by some kinetic art installations at the 2011 Sydney Biennale. She subsequently earned a Masters Degree in Science, Majoring in Precision and Microsystems Engineering from Delft University of Technology.
After graduating from TU Delft in 2018, Lola interned as a Design Engineer at Studio Roosegaarde in Rotterdam, and from 2019 until early 2024 worked full time as an R&D mechanical engineer and ultimately the Research & Development manager at Delft-based Flexous, a company specialising in flexible mechanism technology and silicon micro-fabrication.
In parallel to her work as an artist and mechanical engineer, Lola has been designing and making custom jewellery for a variety of clients located around the world, while at the same time undertaking studies in goldsmithing at Vakschool Schoonhoven in the Netherlands.
STUDIO LOLA is based in Rotterdam where Lola lives with her partner Gijs.