Artist Statement
-Photography has a mnemonic function, where the final image prompts or brings into recall a shared connection, a memory, & a be/longing- tracing a lineage from the original experience & location.
The photograph becomes evidence, a memento, a version, and acts as a trigger to illuminate a journey & potential (silent) script.
I discover distinctive & shared traits of the photographers practice: observing, recording, & archiving souvenirs that render time, place, history, & desire.
Resided for the last number of years in London, Sydney and Tokyo working as a fine arts/design educator & photographer - focusing also on editorial writing for various international fashion, print and on-line publications, & working more recently on HD video installations & collaborations. Meighan has been a visiting Senior Tutor and Lecturer in Photography- teaching a wide range of subjects from fashion, portraiture to documentary at CoCA & previous to this was Photographic Lecturer & Course Coordinator at the School of Design, Victoria University. Her current research and art practice investigates the axis of the photographic portrait & the still moving image & she has exhibited strands of this work in New Zealand, USA, Australia, Europe & Japan. Now based in Auckland, Meighan is lecturing in photography, working on self-directed photographic/video projects & editorial & portrait commissions.
BDes (Hons).
MFA (1st Class Hons. Dist).
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