Trained as a printmaker, Eggermont is interested in materials and transformative processes. Early on she found that she was more interested in the metal plates from which her etching were made than the resulting prints. This has led her to investigate other materials including steel, copper, concrete, acrylic and ceramics. Through the course of her career, she has dealt with issues of identity. No longer feeling entirely Dutch nor Canadian, as artist in the engineering world and a scientific mind in the arts, she grapples with her sense of place and through her work, attempts to create a world onto herself. One-Way Ticket refers to Eggermont’s emigration to Canada, the one-point perspective predominant in Dutch landscape painting, and her experience at the University of Calgary, which has been a “one-way ticket to a different phase of life.”
One-Way Ticket is jointly financed by the U of C Alumni Association, The Students Union and the graduating class of 2010 as the first ever legacy gift to the campus.