RICHARD MEAGHAN
1970
Born Liverpool
Lives & works in Liverpool
BA Staffordshire University
MA Liverpool School of Art
Richard Meaghan’s recent paintings are derived from his interest in ideas of globalisation, a process by which the people of the world are united into a single society and function together.
The individuals within the paintings play some small part in this wider sexual and religious, economic and technological, socio-cultural and political narrative, the unwitting germs in a much larger global disease.
Richard has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and his recent shows include a number of curatorial collaborations with other artists, writers and curators.
These collaborations have resulted in new work involving new media and film. This has developed alongside his normal concerns and ideas of painting and installation.
Lives & works in Liverpool
BA Staffordshire University
MA Liverpool School of Art
Richard Meaghan’s recent paintings are derived from his interest in ideas of globalisation, a process by which the people of the world are united into a single society and function together.
The individuals within the paintings play some small part in this wider sexual and religious, economic and technological, socio-cultural and political narrative, the unwitting germs in a much larger global disease.
Richard has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and his recent shows include a number of curatorial collaborations with other artists, writers and curators.
These collaborations have resulted in new work involving new media and film. This has developed alongside his normal concerns and ideas of painting and installation.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Zeitgeist Acolyte (details to be announced)
2008
No Current Bun; View 2 gallery, Liverpool
2004
Sleeper; Kirkby gallery, Liverpool
Canopy; Cornerstone gallery, Hope University, Liverpool
2002
Inside-out, Outside-in, The View 2 gallery, Liverpool
2001
Return from Nago, Harris Museum and Art gallery, Preston
Arco, Atkinson Art gallery, Southport
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
In the beginning was the deed (details to be announced)
The Origin of the Species (details to be announced)
2009
Getting Off at Edge Hill, In conjunction with METAL, Edge Hill Station, Liverpool
Summertime, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
Liverpool Art Prize, Novas CUC, Liverpool
The Lure & The Seducer, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen
One can often be thwarted by some antidisestablishmentarianism, Gallery Primo Alonso, London (artist & curator)
2008
Liverpool International Artists, Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool Biennial
Are we still here? Richard Meaghan & Rene Holm, bn24 art gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Grand Opening, Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark
Post It, Another Roadside Attraction, London
Kapellmeister pulls a doozy; Seven Seven Contemporary art, London (artist & curator)
The News of the Day, Galleri Slugen, Denmark
2007
I'll be Your Mirror; Gallery Primo Alonso, London (artist & curator)
2006
Exposed; Manchester Square, London (curated by Stephen Snoddy)
Jerusalem; Dean Clough galleries, Halifax (artist & curator)
I'll be Your Mirror; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (artist & curator)
2005
Changing 8; Cornestone gallery, Hope University, Liverpool
Inaugural exhibition; Polished T, Liverpool
Le Petit Paysage; Comme Ca, Manchester (artist & curator)
2004
Le Petit Paysage; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (artist & curator)
Houldsworth, London
2003
Art 2003, Catto Contemporary, British Design Centre, London
Stasis and Flux, Pilgrim gallery, London (Two-man show)
2002
A Figurative Tradition, University of Glamorgan, Wales
Shopping, Debenhams Windows, Manchester (in conjunction with Tate Liverpool)
What’s in a paper bag, Liverpool Biennial, Blundell Street gallery, Liverpool
The New Urbanites, Catto Contemporary, London
2001
Stephen Lacey gallery, London
Sefton Open, Atkinson Art gallery, Southport (1st Prizewinner)
2000
City Line, The View 2 gallery, Liverpool (Two-man show)
Urban Seen, The View 2 gallery, Liverpool (Two-man show)l
1999
Continuing, The View gallery, Liverpool; Dean Clough galleries, Halifax; Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport; Oriel Canfas, Cardiff (artist & curator)
1998
Jerwood Drawing Prize, C&G College of Art; University of Humberside; Kunstlerwerkstaff Banhoff Westend, Berlin
1997
Jerwood Drawing Prize, C&G College of Art; University of Humberside; University of Lincolnshire
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Galleri Slugen, Exhibition catalogue
Grand Opening, Galerie Wolfsen, Exhibition catalogue
2007
Manby,Jo; I'll be your Mirror; Contemporary, Issue 90
2006
Hedges, Susan; I’ll be your mirror; Metro; Sep 22nd
2003
Dowd, Anna; Richard Meaghan-Interview; Liverpool student magazine; issue 4
Palmer, Stephen; Stasis and Flux; a-n magazine, May
McNulty, Mark; Richard Meaghan- Studio; Facto magazine; issue 09
2002
The New Urbanites; Exhibition catalogue
McIntyre-Brown, Arabella; Liverpool, the first 1000 years; Garlic press
2001
Gallery Explorer; Cameo Media, Amsterdam (TV)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Atkinson Art gallery, Southport
JD Weatherspoon
Liverpool Women’s Hospital
Royal Liverpool Hospital
Beetham Organisation Ltd