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.

2021

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 FebruaryTaigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Art Gallery, Lochmaddy, North Uist, Outer Hebrides.

2016                           

FLY, 3 - 27 DecemberVisual 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.