Biography of Xandra Donders

Xandra Donders lives and works in a beautiful monumental building in the heart of the city of Groningen. She studied respectively at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and Minerva Art Academy in Groningen, where she works as a teacher for a long time. In the summer of 2003 Xandra Donders stayed in the Spanish Callosa d'en Saria. This residence was her offered by Fundacion Cultural ' constructions '. She took her moved into a Studio House high on a hill in the old city centre, a maze of narrow streets. It was a House with barred Windows what her a ' locked '. Everywhere were to hear footsteps. But outside she saw only the past sliding shadows of the people. The streets, abandoned and overheated by the soaring Sun. That desolation, the heat and the beyond sliding shades inspired her. But also the sharp, ever-changing shadows on uneven pavement. All in all it was a process of retrenchment and enrichment. The work of Xandra Donders is now in the collections of the Groninger Museum and the Henriëtte Polak Museum in Zutphen. Also companies like Gasunie and steel bankers bought work by her. And, of course, is to find her work at various kunstuitlenen in Netherlands.