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Richard Meaghan- Contemporary Artist
Profile Information
- Website
- http://www.richardmeaghan.com
- Relationship status
- married
- Member type
- Artist, Curator
- I am...
- Richard Meaghan was born in 1973 and trained at Staffordshire University where he studied Painting and Fine Art.
On graduating, Meaghan was awarded a travel grant to study Renaissance Art in Italy. The resulting work was awarded first prize in the Sefton Open, followed shortly with his first solo Public exhibition at the Atkinson Art gallery, Southport.
Meaghan was recently chosen as one of three emerging artists to exhibit alongside Turner art Prize winners Chris Ofili and Keith Tyson in ‘Exposed- Art and Culture in England’s North West’. He has future exhibitions planned for Liverpool, London, Copenhagen, Denmark and Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.
Recently Meaghan has concentrated on curatorial collaborations. With Manchester based artist David Hancock: Le Petit Paysage (Liverpool Biennial 2004), Jerusalem (Dean Clough Galleries 2006), I’ll be Your Mirror (Gallery Primo Alonso, London 2007). With Liverpool based artist Andrew Foulds: Kapellmeister pulls a doozy (London and Berlin 2008/9), One can often be thwarted by some antidisestablishmentarianism (Gallery Primo Alonso, London 2008/9). And with Danish artist Rene Holm at galerie bn24, Hamburg, Germany (Are we still here?), galleri Slugen and galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (2008).
Forthcoming exhibitions
2009
In the beginning was the deed (details to be announced)
Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen 2009
(Artists: Rene Holm, Richard Meaghan, Gordon Cheung, Julian Lee, Andrew Denzler, David Hancock)
One can often be thwarted by some antidisestablishmentarian ism; gallery Primo Alonso, London
(Artists-Richard Meaghan, Andrew Foulds, Emma Talbot, Louise Thomas, The Singh Twins, Rene Holm, Brendan Lyons, Boo Saville, Jaap de Vries, Paul Rooney)
Curated by Richard Meaghan & Andrew Foulds
2008
Kapellmeister pulls a doozy; Seven Seven Contemporary Art and Berlin (details to be announced)
(Artists- Richard Meaghan, Andrew Foulds, Jaap de Vries, John Stark, Zavier Ellis, Andy Denzler, David Hancock, Rui Matsunaga, Rene Holm, The Singh Twins, Julian Lee)
Curated by Richard Meaghan & Andrew Foulds
No Current Bun; View 2 Gallery, Liverpool (solo)
Art Copenhagen
Liverpool International Artists, Novas Gallery, Liverpool Biennial
Are we still here?; galarie bn24, Hamburg, Germany
(Richard Meaghan & Rene Holm)
Group Show; galerie Slugen, Esbjerg, Denmark
Grand Opening; galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
Post It, Another Roadside Attraction, London
Recent exhibitions
2007
I’ll be your mirror; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool & Gallery Primo Alonso, London
(Artists- Marit Andreassen, Jemima & Dolly Brown, Gordon Cheung, Juno Doran, Leo Fitzmaurice, David Hancock, Owen Leong, Andy Magee, Rui Matsunaga, Stuart Semple, Hannah Wooll, Dawn Woolley, Isabel Young, Richard Meaghan.)
Curated by Richard Meaghan & David Hancock
2006
Exposed- Art & Culture from England’s Northwest; Manchester Square, London
(Artists- Chris Ofili, Keith Tyson, Richard Meaghan, Kevin Cummins, Peter Saville, Rachel Goodyear, The Singh Twins, Neville Gabie, Ian Rawlinson, Leo Fitzmaurice.)
Curated by Stephen Snoddy
Jerusalem; Dean Clough galleries, Halifax
(Artists- Gordon Cheung, David Hancock, Richard Meaghan, Beth Harland, Roderick Harris, Reece Jones, Peter Lamb, Rui Matsunaga, Tamsin Morse, Simon Woolham.)
Curated by Richard Meaghan & David Hancock
- About my artwork
- Richard Meaghan’s paintings are a multi-layered experience that oscillate between extremes. They are invented and are an amalgamation of a number of differing experiences that revolve around memory, making use of allegorical and pictorial inventions and references from contemporary art and art history. Meaghan's narrations are not linear, but rather associative and analytical, so that the works function like short stories, in which the plot is compressed into single images. However, the fragments have to be pieced together and thus can seemingly fall somewhere between dream and reality. The resulting paintings appear as visions of somewhere familiar yet strange, uncanny shimmerings based on careful study of our world that in turn suggests another.
"I’m interested in the whole history of painting as a kind of dictionary of ideals that needs to be ransacked as completely as possible. A need for all the possible characteristics of painting, from the retarded to the sophisticated, to be simultaneously represented, as though the whole past lives of the medium were flashing before our eyes." (nigel cooke)
- Artists I like
- Lots and lots but contemporary artists at the mo have to be Neo Rauch, Matthias Weischer and Daniel Richter with a bit of Nigel Cooke thrown in on top of Chris Ofili and Mamma Andersson. Oh Henning Kles, Dexter Dalwood, Tal R, Thomas Demand and Arturo Di Stefano and Peter Doig. I also love and keep refering back to Giotto, Botticelli, Piera de la Francesca, Goya, Millais, Manet, Gauguin, Matisse, Munch, Bonnard, Lanyon, Heron, Hockney, Michael Andrews and Alex Katz.
- Interests
- art, books and footy (Liverpool)
- The centre of the artworld is
- New York, London, Berlin, my studio
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I was wondering if you could give me some advise. I want produce a few larger paintings along similar lines to some of the drawings you commented on last year (the car drawing & the one that has the figure(s) in the urban landscape)
However I couldnt work out a way of getting started with them. To cut a long story short I have just finished a small study. Its called "Study (Hiding in Wide Open Spaces) the Imagery is unremarkable but I have pushed colour, form and resolution just one step further (I hope). Could you possibly take a look at it to see if I treat more sprawling compositions in this manor, I might find a way of opening up my work. As usual I would greatly appreciate your feedback, if you have time!
Nice one
Ian
Sadly I don't do bluetooth.
Good luck.
MIKE
Yeah I really enjoyed the show and was nice to meet you too. Cool profile! Would be great to see your other pieces in real life to get a feeling of their scale... What is the story behing the religious scene? Is it autobiographical as well? (I spotted the glasses)
Petra
Oddly enough, coffee has the same effect on me!
how are you? are you in holiday?....
I hope to hear soon
all the best Ale
thank you very much
all the best
Ale
how are you? I m going to basel, and you...will be fantastic if we meet....
all the best
Ale
I see you are doing a group show with Boo. One of my favorites is his burned-out campfire.
Any progress on the other show?
Best Benny
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