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Mieke A. Oldenburg
Education Academy for Visual Arts, Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands
Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Artist in residence Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum, Heusden
1981 – 2007 Works both in The Netherlands and Mozambique
Works in clay and bronze
xhibitions among others in The Netherlands:
Singer Museum, Laren
Drents Museum, Assen
Galerie Lieve Hemel, Amsterdam
Galerie Aelbrecht, Rotterdam
Galerie Hüsstege, 's Hertogenbosch
Galerie Het Pakhuis, Groningen
Galerie Polder, Borne
Galerie de Fiets, Delft
Galerie Terra Cotta, Groningen
Galerie 'T', Middelburg
Galerie de Wittte Kamer, Delden
Galerie de Vis, Leeuwarden
Galerie Kunstwerk, Utrecht
Beelden aande Vecht, Maarssen
Sculpture Garden, De Stegge, Winterswijk
Interart Sculpture Garden, Heeswijk-Dinther
In Africa:
The Loop Galery, White River, South Africa
Centro Cultural Franco Mocambicano, Maputo
Núcleo de Arte, Maputo
Banco Comercial e Investimento Gallery, Maputo
Museu Nacional de Arte, MUSART, Maputo
Works acquired by the Museum of Drenthe, various companies and individual collectors.
Various (portrait) commissions for, among others, Van Lanschot Bank, Unilever, VSM Concern, architects and individual collectors. Portraits could be commissioned as well as business presents, grave monuments in both clay and bronze.
Publications:
The Contemporary Portrait in The Netherlands, Hans Redeker, ISBN 90-257 1999-6
Earthen Realities, Aspects of contemporary realistic ceramics in The Netherlands. Koen Nieuwendijk/Mieke G. Spruit Ledeboer, ISBN 90 70402017
The Ceramic Guide, NVK, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2007
Human Chemistry, Galerie Hüsstege, 1990
Homage to Erasmus, Galerie Aelbrecht, 1990
Africa
Shortly after her studies in Groningen, many exhibitions and commissions, and a job as an instructor at the School of Fine Arts in Assen, The Netherlands, she moved for the fist time to Mozambique in 1981. There her knowledge and experience with clay appeared to be useful for other purposes. In stead of making art, it became fired bricks and roof tiles and basic table ware. Hand build or made on a potters wheel. A little donkey for mixing the clay and everything fired in a huge kiln fuelled with wood or the shells of the cashew nut. This was the beginning of a long lasting affinity with the African continent. At the moment she spends most of her time in Mozambique.
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