Bio
“Harmen Liemburg (1966) originally trained as a cartographer. In search of a way to increase his opportunities for expression in the graphic field, Liemburg eventually enrolled at Amsterdam’s Gerrit Rietveld Academy. He became part of a new generation of designers, one closely connected to the world of visual arts, museums and education. In many ways, Liemburg is an artist in the traditional sense. Obsessed with screen printing, he uses the medium to create a variety of unexpected results.”
Edo Smitshuijzen
Profile
Photography Isabella Rosendaal.
Hello, my name is Harmen Liemburg. I’m an artist/graphic designer/screenprinter, working for both clients and on self initiated projects.
Theofanie mural painting
Theofanie Up and Out, a mural by artist Gijs Frieling & team, Schunck Heerlen, Augustus 18 2020 – July 6, 2021.
Making a mural in one week’s time at the ‘Glaspaleis‘ (Glass Palace) in Heerlen, NL. A true troupe artistique consisting of members of Gijs Frieling’s son Daan’s band the Koalaz, two other children Eva and Job, plus a couple of others including me. Most of us never touched a brush before in our lives, so paiting on walls was a bit exiting, to put it mildly…
Home Field Framed
Home Field (2012) very nicely framed in white by Gerco de Ruijter, who I recently traded work with.
HNI webcover
Every week, Het Nieuwe Instituut invites a designer to create a cover for the website in response to the question: What’s occupying you now?
Light In Black Out
Workshop at Gezeever Open Zeefdruk Werkplaats in Antwerp, March 4 & 5, 2020. Theme: working with greytones made from layering black, white and silver inks on white, black and grey paper.
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Modest Master
2019
A0 = 84 x 120 cm
2 colour screenprint (black, metallic gold) on 120 g/m2 Natronkraft paper
20 signed and numbered prints out of 30 total
HL at Kees Maas zeefdruk
Made for the Modest Master’s Mesmerizing Screenprint Shop event, November 2, 2019,
Interview met Kees Maas
Vouwvel door Meeuwsontwerpt met interview Kees Maas als uitnodiging voor tentoonstelling/ mini symposium op 2 november 2019
De betoverende zeefdrukwerkplaats van de bescheiden meester.
Interview met meester zeefdrukker Kees Maas/ Interview with master screenprinter Kees Maas (text in Dutch).
The Modest Master’s Mesmerizing Screen Print Shop
Stills from a movie by Meeuwsontwerpt showing Interbellum Grafiek editions screenprinted by Kees Maas with a large variety of artists.
Exhibition & presentations From 2 to 17 November at Nautilus Expobar, Zeeburgereiland, Amsterdam. Co-curated together with Richard Niessen for the Palace of Typographic Masonry, celebrating the work of master screenprinter Kees Maas.
Tracing Boards Treasury
Installation view. Photography Andre Witkam.
Project for Richard Niessen’s Palace of Typographic Masonry, Department of Symbol