Meg
Bowyer
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Meg Bowyer is an artist and producer based in South Cumbria.
She draws, writes, and sculpts about
>materiality&craft
>>archives&collecting
>>>rural ecologies&industries
often weaving these themes together with odd and fractured narratives which reflect on her personal being-within-landscape.
meganbowyerartist@gmail.com
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CONTACT
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Meg with Long Meg, photograph by Camille Boulay
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
After the Archive
Grundy Gallery, Blackpool - with Sankey Film & Media 2025
Light Upon Arrival
Bastille Design Centre, Paris 2023
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow
Whitworth Gallery /Liverpool Met Cathedral / Chester Cathedral / Edge Hill University, with Company Carpi 2021-2023
On a Roadside Verge, Between Two Trees
Espace f15, Paris 2022
Writing from the Research Room
Tullie House & Museum, Carlisle 2022
Home is where the art is
Liverpool 2022
FRESH: Emerging Artist Exhibition
Rural Arts, Thirsk 2022
White Papers
Espace f15, Paris 2021
Co-ordinate
Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster 2019
After the Anthropocene: Life and Ritual in Post-apocalyptic Landscape
The Print Room, Lancaster 2019
H(u)man
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 2019
Young Cumbrian Artist of the Year Award
Shortlisted
Carlisle, Cumbria 2018
Selected Writing
Salthouse
After the Archive
Grundy Gallery, Blackpool - with Sankey Film & Media 2025
Where Digging Ensues
Paris College of Art dissertation 2023
AntEyes
Paris Lit Up Magazine No. 9, Paris 2023
The Artwork is the Place
Research Placement with the Terra Foundation of American Art, Paris 2022
Shelflife
The Opiate Vol.32 2022
Designing Futures: Future Prediction Through Science and Culture
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Here Where Disaster Blooms
LUNE: A Journal of Literary Misrule, DISPLAY and DISASTER issues 2020-2021
Education
MFA Drawing, Paris College of Art, France. 2023
BA(Hons) Fine Art, Lancaster University, UK. 2019
AwardsElizabeth Greenshields Emerging Artist Prize 2019
Lancaster Arts BRIDGES Curatorial Bursary 2019
My flaws and charms won’t work here
2023
in Light Upon Arrival
Bastille Design Centre, Paris
Installation of soft pastel and graphite, paper, egg tempera, wood, unfired clay, digital print & found objects.
With accompanying text > Where Digging Ensues
Fodder Fodder Fodder
2023
in Light Upon Arrival
Bastille Design Centre, Paris
Floor installation of woven ceramic baskets, glazed. Displayed with egg papers, ceramic tiles, pastel drawing on wood, found beetle. On low plywood plinths.
I don’t know what it is, but I know what it’s made from...
2025
After the Archive
Grundy Gallery, Blackpool
- with Sankey Film & Media
Installation of screen print on greenhouse glass with Egremont hematite ink, greenhouse glass clips, salt, plant labels, tin, petwter, found glass, alluminium, crocus twine, and graphite on paper.
On plywood tables, with vitrine lids.
With accompanying text > Salthouse
On a Roadside Verge, Between Two Trees
2022
Installation of graphite on paper works, digital scans, plaster sculpture and plant matter.
White Papers
2021Installation of graphite on paper, layered cyan printing, carbon paper, and velum.
Transcription of all hand-written notes, ammendments, and signatures included in the 180 page Sellafield Disaster governmental white papers.
Writing from the Research Room
2021
Tullie House Gallery & Museum
Installation of sculpture, writing, archival objects and digital scans - based on Tullie House’s archive of hand-written wildlife observation cards.
Including accessible and interactive museum trail, as part of Climate Museum UK’s Young Associate programme. Plus workshops with various age-groups.
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