Meghan Clarke

geluid - schrijven - textiel - conceptueel - DIY

Meghan Clarke is a Scottish artist based in Rotterdam (NL). She works between textiles, text, sound and performance. Her work is concerned with collecting, occupying and rearranging time. Engaging in slow and meticulous processes of undoing and reordering she creates intricate tapestries from found and foraged materials - textiles, text, a cardboard box, a fragment of sound. Her repetitive processes are a subtle act of defiance, a form of non-productive productivity that elongates the in-between moments, creating time for lingering and uncertainty. Her current research explores the connections between rhythm, repetition and textile work. Meghan received a BA Textile Design from the Glasgow School of Art. In 2020 she graduated from MA Contextual Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, where she received the Gijs Bakker award for her graduation project This Work of Body / This Body of Work. She is a textile instructor at WdKA, hosts a monthly radio show with Ceola Tunstall Behrens on RadioWORM, and is a host at Shimmer in Rotterdam Zuid.

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    • Kintai Arts

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 22-04-2024 t/m 05-05-2024
    • Locatie: Kintai Arts, Kintai
    • A two week residency during which I will develop a new performance work - Between Was And Am. The performance will layer together the rhythm of textile work with field recordings, piano compositions and poetry into a sonic landscape that allows us to temporarily occupy a form of 'home' that no longer exists.

    Sunday Mornings With...

    Project

    • 17-03-2024 t/m 28-07-2024
    • In samenwerking met: Shimmer
    • Locatie: Shimmer, Rotterdam
    • Plaited through Shimmer's exhibitions in 2024 are events curated by artist Meghan Clarke as part of our Sunday Morning with… event program. With participation from Ceola Tunstall-Behrens, Feminist Handwerk Party, Bronwen Jones and Dasha Golova.
    • https://shimmershimmer.org/sunday-mornings-with-ceola-tunstall-behrens/

    Reading Room Rotterdam x De Ijskast

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 03-09-2023 t/m 03-09-2023
    • Locatie: Rotterdam,
    • A nomadic exhibition initiated by Reading Room Rotterdam and De Ijskast. I contributed three small hanging sculptures assembled from a collection of found materials, gathered from the thrum of daily life. They are part of a larger composition of work that is trawling for landscapes of lost words and seeking to release them.

    The Shape of Labour

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 09-12-2022 t/m 26-02-2023
    • In samenwerking met: Kunstloc Brabant
    • Locatie: LocHal, Tilburg
    • A group exhibition together with Bruno Baietto, Shun Chih Chang, Chongjin Chen, Qiaochu Guo & Jing He. In the context of this group exhibition responding to the theme of labour, I presented This Work of Body / This Body of Work along with a new tapestry Money Strings. During the opening I performed A Dialogue of Knots - a spoken word narrative that details the transformation of a discarded curtain into over 100,000 knots.

    I Don't Perform for Time, Time Performs for Me

    Overig

    • 05-03-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Ceola Tunstall-Behrens
    • Locatie: WORM, Rotterdam
    • Sounding fascinations and research from their artistic practices, I Don't Perform For Time, Time Performs For Me, is a monthly show with Meghan & Ceola, two artists with an attention to time.
    • https://radio.worm.org/

    De Snoepwinkel

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 22-10-2022 t/m 30-10-2022
    • Locatie: Plan-B, Eindhoven
    • De Snoepwinkel is a candy shop of design critiques: visitors are invited to smell, lick, suck, shew, munch and enjoy the surges of dopamine as the critiques swim through their digestive tracts and seep into their subconsciousness. For this group exhibition I created 'A Container Thinged and a Thing Contained' - ten sweets individually wrapped within handmade netted bags. Visitors were invited to exchange something from their pocket for a piece of the work.

    Staging Stasis x WORM x Lente Kabinet

    Performance

    • 12-05-2022 t/m 12-05-2022
    • In samenwerking met: WORM; Lente Kabinet
    • Locatie: WORM, Rotterdam
    • Staging Stasis was a radio residency established by Radio Stasis, culminating in an evening of live performances and a radio broadcast at WORM. During this event I performed a collaborative work with Kirsten Spruit that was developed during our residency together. Inspired by A Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin, the sound of my stitching was collected in a digital bag (audio sampler) and slowly released by Kirsten back to the audience.
    • https://on.soundcloud.com/3ap7w

    Big Hoop

    Performance

    • 04-12-2021 t/m 04-12-2021
    • Locatie: Rotterdam,
    • Created in collaboration with Flora Lechner. By taking the embroidery hoop and its contents as the starting point, and blowing them up to a monumental scale, the tools and labor of this traditionally timid and hidden activity become unashamedly visible. The work was presented in the streets of Rotterdam, in a performance that was part parade and part protest.
    • https://vimeo.com/689646767

    Staging Stasis - Radio Residency

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 25-10-2021 t/m 31-01-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Radio Stasis
    • Locatie: , Rotterdam
    • Collaborative residency with Kirsten Spruit. Staging Stasis was a residency program established by Radio Stasis, an experimental radio collective that operated between April 2021 - December 2022. Working through the medium of radio, the residency offered creatives based in Rotterdam the possibility to experiment and collaborate, while growing their local networks and engaging with the art community in The Netherlands.

    In Reverie

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 16-10-2021 t/m 24-10-2021
    • Locatie: Plan-B, Eindhoven
    • Group exhibition together with Flora Lechner, Teresa Fernandez-Pello and Delphine Lejeune. Within the context of this group exhibition, Flora Lechner and I presented our collaborative work 'Big Hoop'.

    Moving in Stasis

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 01-03-2021 t/m 11-04-2021
    • In samenwerking met: Design Academy Eindhoven
    • Locatie: Gallery 3 By You at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
    • An unfolding exhibition of 60 Design Academy Eindhoven graduating students. In response to the news that the exhibition could not open due to COVID-19 restrictions, the site was transformed into a set for the production of new work that could be shared via an online public program.

    Ask Your Hands

    Performance

    • 19-10-2020 t/m 19-10-2020
    • Locatie: Campinaterrein, Eindhoven
    • A performance in collaboration with Helen Milne. A red and white gingham textile sampler acts as the mediator for a dialogue between the performers as they consider the histories, values ​​and knowledges held in cloth.
    • https://vimeo.com/539570372

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • Makersloket - Droom en Daad

    • 2020
      Prijs

    • Gijs Bakker Award for This Work of Body / This Body of Work

    • 2020
      Prijs

    • Janome Fine Art Textile Award - Shortlist for This Work of Body / This Body of Work

    • 2021
      Publicatie

    • 'An Exhausting Pursuit of Exhaustion' in The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design

    • 2021
    • Essay
    • Valiz - Ed. Louise Schouwenberg and Michael Kaethler
      Publicatie

    • 'forward.rewind.stop' in Perspectives from C

    • 2019
    • Poem
    • Design Academy Eindhoven - Ed. Laura Herman
      Publicatie

    • 'An Exhausting Pursuit of Exhaustion' in APRIA Journal

    • 2023
    • Essay
    • APRIA: ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts - Ed. Hanka van der Voet