Laurette de Jager holds a MA in Visual Arts (Unisa) (Cum Laude), ND in Jewellery Design & Manufacture (CPUT) and an NHD In Jewellery Design and Manufacture (CPUT). Laurette is currently working toward her PhD in Art through Unisa. She lives, works and lectures in the Northern suburbs of Cape Town. Laurette has participated in numerous group exhibitions; her work is represented in private collections in South Africa and abroad.

Her MVA exhibition, Poetry of Decay was exhibited at the art. B gallery (March 2019) and at Youngblood Africa (October 2019). A selection of work from her Ephemeral Nature body of work were exhibited at the Turbine Art Fair in 2021. Laurette made her curatorial debut with the exhibition and accompanying webinar titled Apart / A Part exhibited at art.b in November 2020 and has since curated Violent Femmes June 2021 and The Secret History in November 2021 . Laurette's first Solo for non-academic purposes, Ephemera , opened at Rust en Vrede Gallery in February 2023. She was selected as one of Art.co.za’s Ten Artists to Watch in 2023, has participate in The Art Bank of South Africa's PESP3 and 4 Programmes and is currently mentoring selected artists in the PESP5 programme. 

The Ephemeral Nature of Things, exhibited at art.B in April 2025, was the first of a series of exhibitions for her PhD in art and deals with climate grief and solastalgia experienced by women artists working in the mediums of painting and photomontage.

Laurette describes the objective of her work as: finding new ways to exist in a dying world.