artist + academic

Trained at Edinburgh College of Art, Inge set up her studio in 1998 and has worked as an artist ever since. Her work has included many public art commissions and exhibitions, for public and private institutions. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Liverpool, Ebeltoft Glas Museum, Mercator Museum, National Glass Centre… The trope of the map has become a recurring motif and ‘mapping’ has become the go-to methodology to explore notions of place and space, often using glass as a medium for site specific works.

She sums up her work and interests in four words: #place #making #glass and #maps.

Inge is currently Lecturer in Digital Media at Edinburgh Napier University, where she had been a Research Fellow on Creative Informatics from 2019 to 2023. Prior to this she was Senior Lecturer at the University of Sunderland ( 2006-2019), teaching both practical skills in glass making and professional practice and theory. An interest in ‘mapping in art’ prompted a theoretical investigation in how artists are charting climate change in the Anthropocene, the subject of PhD research project currently being undertaken at Northumbria University with financial support from the AHRC (2014-19). This theoretical focus has resulted in many lectures and papers and several book chapter and articles being published. You can find a flavour of that in the Academic Writing section.