Education
2011-2016 BA with First-class Honours in Fine Art, The University of Highlands and Islands, Moray College, Elgin.
1996-1998 Social Anthropology MSc, The University of Edinburgh.
1988-1992 History of Art/English MA Honours, The University of Aberdeen.
Exhibitions, Residencies and Features
Forthcoming 2025:
Royal Observatory Edinburgh - Artist in Residence ‘Metaphysical Cosmologies’, January & March.
Cornell University, USA & University of California, Berkeley, USA - ‘Meg Rodger: Featured Artist’: Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism .
2024
Royal Scottish Academy - Digital Residency ‘Metaphysical Cosmologies’ with UistFilm / Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, June 2024-December 2025.
2023
Bendani, L. & Paslier, P. ‘Meg Rodger: Wind Drawings’, Tracing the Line - The Art of Drawing Machines and Pen Plotters. Berlin: Vetro Editions.
Fresh: Art Fair - THROWN at Ascot Racecourse, 22nd-24th September.
Trace, (group exhibition), THROWN at OmVed Gardens, Highgate, London, 19 May - 4 June.
‘Meg Rodger, Environmental Artists - Thoughts on a Dwelling Perspective’ Where the Leaves Fall Issue 14 - May 2023
2022
Materiality: a state of being, (group exhibition), Kindred House, Margate, England, 16 - 26 June.
Auður the Deep Minded, (solo exhibition), Osterøy Museum, Hordaland, Bergen, Norway. 15 June - 15 August.
Searching Erskine: On Art Ancestry and Place - (Artists: Arun Sood, Rosie Blake, Emile Kees and Meg Rodger) 5 March - 21 May, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
TOAST SS21 Collection: Rhythm Spring Issue - ‘Lines of Beauty’, Meg Rodger: Featured Artist.
2020
Auður the Deep Minded, (solo exhibition), October - November, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
Osterøy Museum, Artist in Residence, 24 February - 16 March, Hordaland, Bergen, Norway.
2019
Island Going Artist Residency (St Kilda), June - An Lanntair & Ocean Guides (crew)
The World of Interiors, March Issue 2019. ‘In her element’, Meg Rodger: Featured artist,
Icelandic Textiles Centre - Artist in Residence, 11-28 February, Blönduós, Iceland.
Mansefield Park Gallery (current), Hyndland Road, Glasgow.
2018
North Lands Creative: Winter Open 2018, Lybster, Caithness.
LIFE AT THE EDGES, 22 June - 30 September, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin.
Sea to Sea, 8 May - 16 June, EDAN, Durham.
Affordable Art Fair, 9-13 May, Hampstead, London.
Carina Haslam Gallery, Great Missenden, Bucks.
2017
Murmur, 5 August - 10 September - An Talla Solais, Ullapool.
RSA Open Exhibition, 22 July - 1 October, The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh.
Oirthir - the edge of the land, April - May - An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
Elemental, 14 January - 25 February - Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
2016
FLY, 3 - 27 December - Visual Arts Scotland, RSA, Edinburgh.
Shortlisted for Visual Arts Scotland's Graduate Showcase, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
2015
Vibrant Matter - Focal Exhibition, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
Appointments
2013-15 Chair, Board of Trustees, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
Career
2010-present Visual Artist & Sole Trader– The Birlinn Yarn Company
2004-2010 Arts Development Officer, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Outer Hebrides.
2004 Marketing Development Officer, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.
1999-2003 National Co-ordinator, Initiative at the Edge, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Inverness.
1994-1999 PA to Director & International Research/Project Co-ordinator, The FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
1992-93 Free-lance English Teacher, Buenos Aires & Ranch Hand, La Higuera Estancia, Corrientes, Argentina.
1987-1988 English Teacher, Institut Seni Indonesia (Fine Arts Institute of Indonesian), Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia.