I roll around a bit and pick things up. It’s hard to believe the world is round when things feel so flat – I imagine a landscape, uninterrupted, and wonder if I roll for long enough whether I’ll fall off the edge. I can’t see what I’m doing or where I’m going, but the longer I roll the more I collect and things might start to make sense.
Meg Erridge likes to make things. Sometimes these ‘things’ become devices for performances, events, or films, and sometimes they exist as they are. Her work often involves elaborate costumes which restrict or alter the body, and she is interested in the interplay between viewer/participant and artist. She likes to play with expectations, suspense, and disappointment, promising rewards which never quite arrive. Meg likes to think of herself as a modern-day court-jester.
Selected Exhibitions
• Rites, Hyde Park Book Club, Apr 2024
• CLAYground, Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, Mar 2024
• I thought I caught a glimpse of your reflection, Fusion Arts, Sep 2023 (Solo Show)
• It’s a Shed Show, 47 Rectory Road, Aug 2023
• Resonate Bodies, Fusion Arts, Oxford, Jul 2023
• Ruskin 23, Ruskin School of Art, Jun 2023
• Art of Noises, Modern Art Oxford, May 2023
• Dissonance, Hollywell Music Hall, Oxford, Feb 2023
• Spilt Milk, Fusion Arts, Oxford, Feb 2023
• Sound Salon, Hollywell Music Hall, Oxford, Apr 2022
• Spilt Milk, St. John's College, Oxford, May 2022
• Primordial Soup, online, Apr 2021
Selected Publications
• Escaping the Panopticon: One-way Mirrors, (in)Visibility, and State Surveillance (winner of the Henry Moore Dissertation Prize 2023)
• Fiction writing selected for publication in the Mays Thirty One
• Artworks selected for publication in the Mays Thirty One