Maureen De Jager
Associate Professor
Fine Art
Rhodes University
South Africa
Biography
Maureen de Jager has exhibited both locally and internationally. She has held four solo exhibitions at the National Festival of the Arts, including In Sepia (Main Festival Programme, 2008) and Maria’s Story (Main Festival Programme, 2012). In 2010 she was a finalist in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial Exhibition and Award. She works across media, often utilising materials and/or found objects which have rich metaphorical associations in regards to her thematic interests in family history, trauma, memory and melancholic loss. These include steel and rust, which she uses to invoke the deterioration of memory over time. Her art-making is supplemented by an interest in art history and theory. She has authored a number of conference papers and journal articles.
Research Interest
Printmedia
Publications
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Maureen de Jager (2009) A far from passive record Anton van Wouw The smaller works, A.E. Duffey : book review. Historia 54: 350-351.
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Maureen de Jager (2008) Tracing and erasure in Kathryn Smiths Psychogeographies : the washing away of wrongs : research. De arte 43: 33-51.
