Marjan Eggermont
Unmoored from her Dutch heritage and not fully docked into her adopted Canadian nationality, Marjan Eggermont found herself caught also between the worlds of science/engineering and the arts. After immigrating to Canada in 1986 she earned her B.A. in Military History at the University of Calgary (U of C) (1991), achieved her B.F.A. (1996) and M.F.A. (1998) in Printmaking. She also studied several months at the Royal College of Art in London (1998).
Eggermont joined the U of C’s Engineering faculty, but as an artist and instructor of drawing, printmaking, and visual fundamentals, she was less interested in her prints than in the metal plates she’d etched to make them. She therefore experimented with creating plates from ceramics, acrylic, concrete, and copper, and also etched on steel, embroidered and digitally printed onto canvas, and created monotypes with chine collé. She also created installations, one which found its home in the U of C’s Energy, Environmental, Experiential Learning Building. Some of her works metaphorically discuss the plight of Calgary’s homeless people; one such installation used 1296 toy cowboys, another used 1737 empty plywood shelves, and a third, called The Cave, created a virtual city occupied by 1737 ghost-like figures.
Eggermont has mounted many solo exhibitions in Calgary and Banff, and include The mystery and melancholy of the street II. She participated in Tokyo’s 2nd Canada & Japan Tama International Print Exhibition. Her commendations include placement on the Calgary Artwalk Society’s list of Calgary’s 20 most influential artists (2003), the Alan Blizzard Award for Collaborative Projects to Improve Student Learning (2004), and the “Printmaking at the Edge” profile of forty-five international artists by Richard Noyce (2006). She twice won the Independent Thought Award Technicians Annual Recognition Award (1995 and 1996).
Numerous private and public collections hold her work, including those of Sharjah University in the U.A.E. and the Dalarnas Museum in Sweden. Eggermont is undertaking a PhD in Computational Media Design as a fusion of art, design and computer science.
Eggermont joined the U of C’s Engineering faculty, but as an artist and instructor of drawing, printmaking, and visual fundamentals, she was less interested in her prints than in the metal plates she’d etched to make them. She therefore experimented with creating plates from ceramics, acrylic, concrete, and copper, and also etched on steel, embroidered and digitally printed onto canvas, and created monotypes with chine collé. She also created installations, one which found its home in the U of C’s Energy, Environmental, Experiential Learning Building. Some of her works metaphorically discuss the plight of Calgary’s homeless people; one such installation used 1296 toy cowboys, another used 1737 empty plywood shelves, and a third, called The Cave, created a virtual city occupied by 1737 ghost-like figures.
Eggermont has mounted many solo exhibitions in Calgary and Banff, and include The mystery and melancholy of the street II. She participated in Tokyo’s 2nd Canada & Japan Tama International Print Exhibition. Her commendations include placement on the Calgary Artwalk Society’s list of Calgary’s 20 most influential artists (2003), the Alan Blizzard Award for Collaborative Projects to Improve Student Learning (2004), and the “Printmaking at the Edge” profile of forty-five international artists by Richard Noyce (2006). She twice won the Independent Thought Award Technicians Annual Recognition Award (1995 and 1996).
Numerous private and public collections hold her work, including those of Sharjah University in the U.A.E. and the Dalarnas Museum in Sweden. Eggermont is undertaking a PhD in Computational Media Design as a fusion of art, design and computer science.