Aude Hérail Jäger
- Faculty
- Alumni, 2011
Biography
Aude Hérail Jäger is a French artist who lives and works in London. She holds a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from Central Saint Martin’s (UCL) and continued her post-graduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) and The Royal Drawing School, in London where she currently teaches.
Aude is a multi-disciplinary artist, working primarily in drawing, installation, and sculpture.
Her work has been widely exhibited, including solo shows in the UK, France, and Japan. She is recipient of grants by the British Council, the Henry Moore Foundation, and the Arts Council England. Aude is an elected member of The London Group.
Aude’s practice explores the interplay of time, memory, and the hidden influences of the past on human behaviour. Her work delves into the unseen—the unacknowledged and subconscious— and seeks to channel those powerful forces for a greater understanding of the self and the world.
On drawing
“One key approach to my work involves extensively drawing in museums from old masters, anonymous artists, and craftspeople. I create a visual reference library of figures, garments, and other details, which will be used in the composition of over-life-size figures for my ‘SENTINELS’ series.
I also make frottages with graphite of interior architecture, such as the studio floor or an entire staircase; these rubbings reveal traces of people’s activities, and, like cave paintings, link us to human life from another time and place.
Drawing events of my own life, feelings and dreams is a great tool to orientate myself within the complexities of Life.
My view of teaching is to create for students a space for experimenting away from the ‘good or bad’ binary. I aim to facilitate tabbing into what I call 'the thing without a name', i.e. discovering and letting flow one’s own creativity, imagination, and natural intelligence.”
