Andrea Meacham is a multidisciplinary artist working in Naarm, so-called Melbourne, Australia.
Drawing from cinema, pop culture, music, sex and mythology, they create tender tongue-in-cheek monuments to care, fragility and embarrassment.
Andrea acts as a medium to her own life, transmuting emotionally charged past experiences into material and aural installations, revealing a hidden inner world laced with magical dreaming and horror ennui.
By embracing a joyfully frightening melancholy, Andrea's practice seeks to cultivate encounters between artist and audience that examine contemporary anxieties relating to shame, fear and grief.
Andrea graduated with a Masters of Fine Art (coursework) with distinction from RMIT in 2020 and received the Vice-Chancellors Award for Academic Excellence and the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize. They presented her first solo exhibition ('Like a heartbeat drives you mad') in 2022 at Seventh Gallery, Naarm Melbourne, supported by a City of Yarra project grant and their second solo ('Tear Jerker') in July this year with Cool Change Contemporary in Walyalup Fremantle. Andrea has participated in group exhibitions, notably in 2023 with Elevator Galley in Lismore ('Ultra Terrestrial'). They completed a residency in July this year with the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA). Andrea was selected as a finalist in the Emerging Artist Award (fortyfivedownstairs, 2021). Additionally, she was an Ensemble member of the 'Twiddle Fiddle and Tune' project with Prue Stevenson and Next Wave (2024); they illustrated covers for poetry anthologies ('No More Poetry', 2023) and facilitated critical reading groups ('Collapse', 2020—2022).
Contact: andrea.s.meacham@gmail.com