Finding Beauty – Four New Exhibitions At The Forrester Gallery
Published on 08 April 2024
Finding beauty in cloudscapes, architecture, human nature and the landscapes that surround us, the Forrester Gallery is thrilled to welcome four new exhibitions.
In their first exhibition with the Forrester Gallery, printmaker, painter and photographer Inge Doesburg explores the natural world with photographer and partner Marc Doesburg. In Yesterdays’ Journeys they navigate the past and present, finding beauty in the everyday.
Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, Inge Doesburg studied advertising and dressmaking before immigrating to New Zealand in 1988. In 1995 she co-founded the Inge Doesburg Gallery in Dunedin, which evolved into RDS Gallery in 2019. Finding inspiration in the great outdoors, clouds and atmosphere are a recurring theme in all her artistic forms.
David Eggleton, New Zealand’s Poet Laureate 2019-2021, describes Inge’s art: “[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.” (‘Weathering,’ New Zealand Listener, 19-25 August 2006, p. 48).
Marc Doesburg was born and lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin. A photographer since his teen years, Marc’s black and white images are an exposition of his view of the world, carefully composed in an attempt to create order in line, tone and visual rhythm. This exhibition brings together a selection of photographs of places Marc has lived in and visited in his lifetime, spanning a period of almost 50 years.
Around the corner in the Side Gallery, Ōamaru visual and digital artist Maggie Covell explores mental health, trauma, reproductive rights and body autonomy through her interactive art installation Good as Gold. Informed by personal stories from women across New Zealand and Australia, Good as Gold invites you to view, to discuss, and to connect through engaging in a meaning-making experience.
Based in Port Chalmers Dunedin, artist and musician Robert Scott is inspired by Otago landscapes. In his upstairs exhibition Recover the Land, Robert draws from memories, observations and imagined scenes to depict landforms – as they were, as they are, and as they once again could be.
Guest curated by members of the community, our upstairs Community Gallery exhibition Under Pressure features artworks with nga rākau | trees from the permanent collection of the Forrester Gallery. With our environment facing ever-increasing challenges, we asked people in our community who are taking action to choose an artwork that resonated with them. A wonderlab interactive exhibition great for kids and adults alike, come along to appreciate the beauty and grandeur of trees.
All four exhibitions open on the 13th of April.
There is an opening at the Forrester Gallery on Friday 12th April 5.30pm for the artists and their supporters.
Free entry.
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