Meghan Price
Artist Statement
Figuring relationships between human time and geological time is the ongoing focus of my work in sculpture, print and video. This is motivated by the potential a deep time perspective has to destabilize everyday experience, to put certainties into question and to incite productive wonder.
I use an evolving language of material and process which steadily reflects the indexical quality of geology and I closely consider the temporal specificities of how I work and what I work with. The timescale of my body is recorded in the accrual of pattern produced through handwork. Textiles reference near and very distant histories of everyday life. Video is streamed at the tempo of contemporary communication. Strata in limestone describe the pace of the earth.
With the invitation to explore processes of papermaking, I saw an opportunity to create strata composed of soft materials and did so with cotton pulp, wool blankets and woven cashmere. This has been a way for me to materialize thoughts about the parallels between geologic and cultural processes of erasure. In the cycle of earth processes soft bodies disappear into hard materials. I think of the ancient textile record that exists only in traces impressed in clay and of the lost, soft, everyday histories of women and others that dominant cultures have failed to carry forward.
Meghan Price, For All That Was Soft (smallest), (smaller), (small), installation shot, cotton, wool, cashmere and marble, variable sizes, limited series of 3 unique pieces
Bio
Meghan Price is an artist based in Toronto, born and raised in Montreal. Her sculpture, print and video work is rooted in the language of textiles and figures relationships between human time and geological time. Recent exhibition sites include the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon), Katzman Contemporary (Toronto), Idea Exchange (Cambridge) and the Blackwood Gallery (Toronto). Price holds an MFA from Concordia University (2009) and has held residencies at Artspace (Sydney), Open Studio (Toronto), the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (Lumsden) and the Banff Centre. She teaches in the Textile Studios of OCADU and Sheridan College, is a Board member at Open Studio and Artistic Advisor for Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre Craft Studios.
