Inge Doesburg holds a Diploma in Fine Arts with Honours and a major in printmaking (1993) from Otago Polytechnic. At 6 Castle Street, Dunedin, she co-founded in 1995 what would become the Inge Doesburg Gallery and Studio and later, in 2019, RDS Gallery.

She taught Printmaking in the Fine and Visual Arts Foundation Course at King’s High School and gave numerous workshops in the South Island. She was a part-time lecturer in printmaking at the Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, and gave Printmaking evening classes. She currently teaches evening classes at the Dunedin School of Art.

Inge took part in several publications of limited-edition books published by University of Otago Press.

She has had numerous solo shows and exhibited widely since 1991 throughout New Zealand. Including galleries such as the Eastern Southland Art Gallery, Gore, and the Millennium Gallery, Blenheim and Forrester Gallery, Oamaru. She has also contributed works to many group shows nationwide, as well as overseas in Japan, China, Australia and Germany. Currently she is a participant in an international printmaking touring exhibition “Thinking of Place III”.

In recent years, she has moved into mixed media works and painting, finding her inspiration in the natural environment of New Zealand. David Eggleton, New Zealand’s Poet Laureate 2019-2021, describes her art in the following terms: ‘Doesburg delivers images of the land that look as if they've been scratched on pitted rock, then given patinas of orange lichen and silvery muttonbird fat. Tree bark, eel skin and fish skin spring to mind as you gaze at her print textures . . . [T]he wild weather she depicts harks back to 19th century German Romantic landscapes. Sploshes of white or grey-blue are left to drip and animate surfaces, evoking fast-travelling fog, mist and cloud that dapples and darkens the light. In the end all is atmosphere: squalls process across louring bluffs and headlands and hill crowns in a lashing, ecstatic frenzy.’

Her work is distributed both nationally and internationally, and is represented at: The Artist Room Gallery, Dunedin; OCTA gallery, Old Cromwell Town.

Course outline

The course will be woodblock printing using A5 sized plates, black and white and colour, possibly with monotype printing combined. We’ll also look at printing without a press.