“My work is about essences: about quiddity- the whatness of things- and what it does to us.”

Eelko Moorer is an artist-designer who creates objects at the intersection of personal experience, making processes, and meaning. His work explores how material, action, and form communicate with one another- between maker, material, and world.

Moorer works from a material poetics: for him, design is not only function or expression, but also a language that evokes sensory knowledge. His objects function as physical touch points: they bring the personal and the universal together and invite a direct, tactile experience. Central to this is Aisthesis, the first contact: sensation before story.

By transforming familiar imagery, techniques, and materials—without fixing meaning- he questions the particularity of things and the stories we attach to objects. His work creates space for autonomous interpretation: meaning remains fluid and is continually remade through looking.

Moorer works with great attention to detail and craftsmanship. He chooses materials such as rubber, wood, metal, and leather not only for their properties, but also for their emotional and cultural charge. In an immersive, improvisational process, materials act as collaborators, resulting in objects that hold attention, feel intimate, and alive.

Represented by Gallery Fumi, London