I am a painter and collage artist from Aotearoa/New Zealand, currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland. I graduated in 2010 from the University of Canterbury’s Ilam School of Fine Arts with a BFA majoring in painting, and I am currently working towards my Master of Visual Arts at AUT.
My practice spans oil painting, collage and installation. In my current research project, the scanner functions as an intermediary, connecting body and machine while simultaneously blurring their boundaries. It ruptures the discrete body into something more distributed, uncertain and more-than-human. Like our porous and leaky membranes, these distortions reduce the legibility of forms, pushing them towards abstraction, yet some indexical traces remain, providing a visual clue to the subject matter and resisting total dissolution.
I am represented by {Suite} Gallery, and Parnell Gallery.
Contact: megan.archer@pm.me