Inge Doesburg
I hold a Diploma in Fine Arts with Honours and a major in printmaking (1993) from the Dunedin School of Art Otago, Otago Polytechnic. At 6 Castle Street, Dunedin, I co-founded in 1995 what would become the Inge Doesburg Gallery and Studio and later, in 2019, RDS Gallery.
I taught Printmaking in the Fine and Visual Arts Foundation Course at King’s High School 1996 – 2012 and gave numerous workshops in the South Island. I was a part-time lecturer in printmaking at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, from 2004-2006 and gave Printmaking evening classes there 2012-2015. I resumed teaching evening classes at the Dunedin School of Art, now Te Pūkenga, in 2021.
I took part in a number of publications of limited-edition books published by University of Otago (Otekau) Press.
I have had numerous solo shows and exhibited widely since 1991, including some of the main centres in NZ and public galleries, such as the Eastern Southland Art Gallery, Gore, and the Millennium Gallery, Blenheim. I have also contributed works to many group shows nationwide, as well as overseas in Japan, China, Australia and Germany. Currently I am a participant in an international printmaking touring exhibition “Thinking of Place III”.
In recent years, I have moved into mixed media works and painting, finding my inspiration in the natural environment of New Zealand.
My work is distributed both nationally and internationally, and is represented at:
The Artist Room Gallery, Dunedin
OCTA gallery, Old Cromwell Town
Susan Badcock Gallery, Geraldine
Waiheke Community Gallery, Waiheke Island
AWARDS
1993 1st prize Anderson Lloyd’s Printmaking competition
1998 Merit Award, Painting, Cleveland Art Awards
1998 Merit Award, Printmaking, Cleveland Art Awards
1999 3rd prize, Hope and Son Art Awards
2000 2nd prize Cleveland Art Awards: Painting/Works on Paper
2001 2nd prize Cleveland Art Awards: Painting/Works on Paper and People’s Choice award
2002 Merit Award, Mainland Art
2002 3rd prize Cleveland Art Awards: Painting/Works on Paper
2007 Finalist in Macalister Art Award, Anderson Park Invercargill
2015 3rd prize Edinburgh Art Awards
2016 Finalist in Molly Morpeth Canaday Awards, Whakatane
PUBLICATIONS
Craft Arts International 54, 2002, page 105, Rakiura-Stewart Island, by Dr Cassandra Fusco (essay about a group show of artists who visited Stewart Island)
Otago Daily Times, 20.7.06, Impressions, ‘Doesburg spreads her Wings’, by Richard Dingwall (review)
New Zealand Listener August 19-25 2006, page 48, ‘Weathering’ by David Eggleton (review of four Dunedin artists)
Otago Daily Times, 24.8.06, ‘Impressions, ‘Traditional print methods not without snarks’, by Charmian Smith (article about the printer in residence in the bibliography room at the University of Otago Library, printing the Hunting of the Snark images)
‘Somes Island Exhibition Catalogue’ 2013
‘45o South Exhibition Catalogue’ 2016
‘The Speaking Earth’, brochure accompanying exhibition at RDS Gallery, written by Bridie Lonie, 2019
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