→ CV – Trudi Jaeger (Norwegian)
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Places, Landscapes, Environmental Issues and Literature
Trudi Jaeger was born in London and grew up in rural England. After her education at St. Martin’s School of Art and Goldsmiths College, London, she travelled to Norway on a scholarship and discovered Bergen. This city in the southern part of the west coast of Norway, has been her base ever since.
Jaeger works with painting, drawing, writing and installation. Places, landscapes, environmental issues and literature often inspire her work. She wanders and spends a great deal of time in different landscapes. Her paintings evolves from her experience of specific situations, places and people. Process is important. She is concerned with gestural, calligraphic and minimalist abstraction as a direct expression of a phenomenon.
I have noticed that Jaeger draws knowledge from many different sources: both art historical, literary and more fact-oriented.
— Christine Hansen,
Photographer and Art Historian
Texts
A collection of texts on the artistic practice of Trudi Jaeger
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Uncomposing Space
Trudi Jaeger and the Chronotope. The exploration of space is central to Jaeger’s practice as an artist.
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A Democratic Aristocracy
Trudi Jaeger’s artistic project has followed a steady but not unwavering course for over 15 years.
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Time to Face Place
Neither architectural discussions nor Trudi’s own work perceive space as being empty.
Jager’s artistic process always starts with an idea or a mood. This can be prompted by a landscape, but can also come from poetry, music or other sources.
— Dag Sveen, Art Historian
Journal
Notes on past and present projects by Trudi Jaeger
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Urban and Woodland Topographies
In the Autumn of 2021, Trudi Jaeger was on a three-month residency at Atelier Frits Thaulow, a part of Cité internationale des Arts Paris.
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Small House – A Place in Space
An examination of the potential of space, presence and of what is sufficient to fill a space.
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Sublime Seascapes
Illuminations Atlanterhavet is the title of Trudi Jaeger’s on-going project on vulnerable and threatened landscapes connected to the North Sea and facing the Atlantic Ocean.
The exploration of space is central to Jaeger’s practice as an artist; we see this in her drawings and paintings as well as in the way she displays and presents her work.
— Synnøve Vik, Art Historian
Selected Videos
Presentations and sound events from different exhibitions.
Quartus Illuminations. Atlas Littoralis.
Touching Down – Imaginations. Movements in Time and Space.
My paintings and drawings evolve slowly in relation to each other. Process is very important and allows space for doubt, for accumulation and concentration.
— Trudi Jaeger, Artist