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Forthcoming exhibitions
2009 Kapellmeister pulls a doozy; Danielle Arnaud, London
(Artists- Richard Meaghan, Andrew Foulds, Tamsin Morse, John Stark, Zavier Ellis, Andy Denzler, David Hancock, Rui Matsunaga, Rene Holm, The Singh Twins, Julian Lee)
Curated by Richard Meaghan & Andrew Foulds
2008 One can often be thwarted by some antidisestablishmentarianism; Venue tba, London
(Artists-Richard Meaghan, Andrew Foulds, Emma Talbot, Louise Thomas, The Singh Twins, Brendan Lyons, Boo Saville, Jaap de Vries)
Curated by Richard Meaghan & Andrew Foulds
No Current Bun; View 2 Gallery, Liverpool (solo)
Richard Meaghan & Rene Holm; galarie bn24, Hamburg, Germany
Group Show; galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
Selected 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)
Selected 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)
Biography
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 has had a number of exhibitions both locally and nationally, particularly in London with Catto Contemporary, Houldsworth and gallery Primo Alonso. He was also chosen as one of three emerging artists to exhibit alongside artist’s such as 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 Copenhagen, Denmark, Hamburg and Berlin, Germany and New York.
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 (Danielle Arnaud, London 2009), One can often be thwarted by some antidisestablishmentarianism (Gallery Primo Alonso, London 2008). And with Danish artist Rene Holm at galerie db24, Hamburg, Germany and galerie Wolfsen, Copenhagen, Denmark (both 2008).
Throughout his practice, Meaghan has been a lecturer in Painting at St. Helen’s College, where he will become Module leader in Painting on their new degree course in September 2008.
Richard Meaghan lives and works in Liverpool.
Statement
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.
(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)
Biography
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 has had a number of exhibitions both locally and nationally, particularly in London with Catto Contemporary, Houldsworth and gallery Primo Alonso. He was also chosen as one of three emerging artists to exhibit alongside artist’s such as 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 Copenhagen, Denmark, Hamburg and Berlin, Germany and New York.
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 (Danielle Arnaud, London 2009), One can often be thwarted by some antidisestablishmentarianism (Gallery Primo Alonso, London 2008). And with Danish artist Rene Holm at galerie db24, Hamburg, Germany and galerie Wolfsen, Copenhagen, Denmark (both 2008).
Throughout his practice, Meaghan has been a lecturer in Painting at St. Helen’s College, where he will become Module leader in Painting on their new degree course in September 2008.
Richard Meaghan lives and works in Liverpool.
Statement
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.
In the painting “Despite many crises & unforeseen disasters we were often bored,” its like meeting your favourite Grandma with her home made cookies and chocolate biscuits but you are scared of the kiss goodbye with her hairy chin and the scent of lavender. It’s like a fairytale gone wrong or a modern day sommerfrische, a term used in the 19th Century to refer to an extended sojourn in a rural environment. These breaks were often undertaken by members of the aristocracy to their country estates and can be seen as the precursor to the present day summer holiday. I wanted the gorge to dissect the painting so it seemed to divide the old lady from the safe haven of her holiday home with only the ladder and slippery path to guide her back. You’re left feeling on the edge, you want to pull, what seems like a curtain from Ikea on the left hand side over and shut out this world, or maybe the woman wants to shut the viewer out from her island refuge, a painting about escape.
The same is true of the painting “Tick Tock, Tick Tock nothing ever stops the clock” there is again a separation, this time between the two little green men and their Mother Ship. We are left asking questions of what it is we are looking at. Are they the everyday goings on in a world that surely can’t be the world we reside in, scenes that could never exist? Or is this the vision of some artistic prophet and our apocalyptic future and the end of the world? A painting analogous to man’s ever increasing demands for technology and maybe the continual push towards our own destruction.
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.
Richard Meaghan
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