Mish Meijers: dermatologists hate her!

7 - 29 June 2024

Overview

Mish Meijers furthers her investigation into the deluge of contemporary life. How it intersects the absurd and oblique with cat click bait (or whatever floats your boat). And then unnerves with serious and disturbing current world events.

Hashed together in an ever-lasting gob stopper of information that challenges how we cope, how we can even begin to digest the indigestible. How we skate the fine line of popcorn politics and action.

A painting and ceramic exhibition that dives into the cornucopia of heartbreak, war, loss, escapism, seismic shifts and an unnamed cast waiting with tears in their eyes, tongues defiantly out inside the Data Palace.

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. She divides her practice between a distinct solo and collaborative practice (with Tricky Walsh) Henri Papin, based around a fictional character.

She has exhibited widely in Australia in various exhibition structures that include museums and public galleries, artist run initiatives and commercial galleries.

Meijers has been a finalist in various prizes and she held residencies and exhibited in New York, Indonesia and Paris. Meijers has been commissioned to make new work for Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Gertrude Contemporary Gallery, Monash University Museum of Art and Detached Cultural Organisation. Meijers work is held in public and private collections.