Drager Meurtant

Drager Meurtant (1951) decided to also be an artist (autodidact) in later life. Creations include poems, sculptures-assemblages-collages-paintings-graphics. Assemblages and collages are a central medium: both man-made material as well as that supplied by nature (wood, stone) are used in my artworks, including discarded and found objects, with an eye for surreal meaning. Looking at structures, compositions, during the process of creation, I follow the appearence that gradually surfaces, while not keeping to a simple suit of illusions.
The place of humans in society, in our world, increasingly is examined and translated into art.
Many artists inspire, such as David Smith, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Joan Miro, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.

Member of the International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists, European Sculpture Network.
Supporter of Fossil free.

academia: DVM, PhD, senior researcher, specialist.
In art: looking, reading, visiting museums.
Active creation started 2012, with courses in graphics at academic centre Kunstenhuis, since 2016.
In life: Mountain-walking.

Selection of Exhibitions
August-September 2014, Drager Meurtant & Jeanine Keuchenius, “Ik zal 's Kijken” (I will have a look), Gallery The DepARTment, Schagen, Netherlands,
June 2016: Drager Meurtant, Jeanine Keuchenius, Annechien Weijer, “Door elkaar” (Through one another), MLB-gallery, Amsterdam,
Nov 2016-Jan 2017: Group Exhibition, DaDa Centennial "Day of the Death", Ontological Museum, Santa Fé, New Mexico, US
March 2017: Group Exposition Collage, C-lab-West, Amsterdam.
June 16 - September 9, 2018. Drager Meurtant & Petra Senn, "Now, the new form of the past", Kunstwerk! Liemers Museum, NL.
July 16 - August 4, 2019, Petra Senn (D), Jeanine Keuchenius (NL) and Drager Meurtant (NL) Exhibition "Anders" in old Synagogue Buren (NL),
May 27 – June 18, 2023, “Binnen of Buiten – Grenzen en Begrenzingen” / (With)in or (With)out – Borders and Boundaries, 18 artists (curated DM) in Art Room De Melkfabriek, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL
Sept 1, 2023 – Jan 28, 2024. “Op De Vlucht / On The Run”, 35 artists, exhibition curated by Ellen Klijzing at NDSM-Fuse, Amsterdam, NL
November 10 - December 1, celebration of 100th year of the society promoting art and culture for and by blind artists. S.M.A.K. in Ghent, Belgium. With George Kabel: t...