Mish Meijers: Low to no filter

Opening night: Friday the 25th of NOVEMBER, 5:30pm

Exhibition continues: Saturday the 17th of December 2022

The Exponential. 

Mish Meijers makes new worlds out of old, and sometimes virtual ones. In the hybrid paintings from her new body of work Low to No Filter, we see remnants of precovid travel merging with almost-memories from the concurrent stream of virtual life which flows thickly from our devices. An endless flow of information, collectively not-experienced, but universally known. 

Meijers works with both found and made imagery without prioritising either. The outcome is an assemblage of thick paint and photography pressed up against the glass, as if looking back at you, as if wondering how much you've noticed, what you've paid attention to. They are not passive images, they are a conversation, two-sided and insistent on reciprocation. Her ceramics are just as direct. Populations swarming their hosts, worlds building on worlds, building on worlds. 

The exhibition itself is also a kind of remnant. Meijers has recontextualised artifacts and materials from her recent installation Sprinting towards the Sun to provide a framework for these new paintings and ceramics. Sprinting towards the sun was neither fight nor flight, but freeze in the face of unsustainable options. A contemplation on our compulsion to contribute our everything to the data bank, with an awareness of this engulfing mass which threatens to become infinite. 

Low to No Filter has Meijers stealing our lives back from the databank and compressing them into her imagery. A kind of information offsetting for future generations. Space-making, in the face of the relentless exponential. 

Tricky Walsh, 2022 

Mish Meijers is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice experiments in surface tensions: how one material conforms or abrades against the matter of another. Whether in actuality, or within conceptual content, she distorts the inherent worth and significance of her objects with regard to popular culture, gender determination and functionality, in an alchemic and at times discordant sensibility.
 
Meijers uses installation, sculpture, drawing, painting, digital media, performance, and ceramics to translate and communicate her current concerns and interests.
 

Meijers divides her time between a distinct solo and an ongoing collaborative practice. The Collector Project now in its thirteenth year is collaboration with artist Tricky Walsh and is based on a fictional character Henri Papin.

Meijers has been a finalist in the following; Fishers Ghost art prize, Hobart Art Prize twice, The Substation Prize, The Paul Guest drawing prize, Tidal, The Churchie Prize and the Glover prize. She has been a recipient of numerous Australia Council and Arts Tasmania grants.

She has exhibited widely in Australia in various exhibition structures that include artist run initiative galleries, public and commercial galleries. She has held residencies and exhibited in New York, Indonesia and in Paris. She was awarded a Qantas Foundation Art Encouragement award and was commissioned by Gertrude Contemporary Gallery, Monash University Museum of Art and Detached Cultural Organisation to create new works for The Collector project.

Meijers work is held in public and private collections

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