Throughout the 80's South Africa and its violent political situation provided the conceptual basis of her work. Collaboration, Suspension and other monumental works were exhibited in the U.S. including the State Museum of North Dakota, which owns a substantial body of work and published a full catalogue covering ten year’s work, in 1995.

Since 1994 Papageorge has worked in the Kalahari, Botswana, to produce the Gondwanaland Series, a land-art work based in the Sowa Salt Pan. The resulting drawings and mixed media canvases convey the beauty of endless horizons and the empty space of the Kalahari, In pursuit of the Great Rift Valley, she travelled north to Mount Kilimanjaro which she has climbed twice, making this great African mountain the subject of her next major project. Richly worked surfaces integrate remnant text with photography and the abiding symbols of the red and white chevron barrier tape, the circle and the ladder.

For her third exhibition at Art First she is working on the wild, dramatic Skeleton Coast of Namibia. This follows her exhibition at the Pretoria Art Museum, where a work was purchased this year. She is also represented in the collections of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, the State Museum of North Dakota and in numerous corporate collections including Anglo American Corporation, Standard Bank Gallery, and Goldman Sachs International.