Meaghan Elyse Lueck
Bio: Meaghan Elyse Lueck (b. 1992, London, UK) is an artist working at the intersection of design, biomaterial sculpture, and performance. Her work explores the precarious and porous dynamic between our bodies, other beings, and our wider ecological surroundings. She has shown at Hofstra University, CLEA RSKY, Half Gallery, eyes never sleep, and the Jewish Museum, among others. Along with collaborators, she is interested in creating spaces for interaction, for rest, for dreaming, for mourning, for healing.
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Instagram: @meaghan_elyse
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Recently I have been making nests and architectures in public parks out of ephemeral biomaterials. These aleatory structures explore feelings of safety and exposure, and offer a potential to reimagine our homes.
Cella is a beautiful and haunting structure that has hovered over me for some time now. She is sheltering and enclosing, made up of many smaller scales, and shifting or porous to the world around her.
The word for a biological ‘cell’ is derived from the Latin word ‘cella’, meaning ‘small room.’
Her birth is out of play, a joyous act of den making, a desire for protection from the weather. Her interior bones are a resilient scaffolding, while the skin of her translucent petals shed, shimmering through a never- ending cycle of movement. Like a female pine cone, she opens and closes, in tune with the dryness or wetness of the air.
She is always a draft.
L to R: Cella (96" x 132" x 96", Steel, silk, collected plastics, and algae bioplastics, 2023); Cella (sound), (Steel string instrument)
First Year Exhibition
L to R: Absent (87” x 45” x 12", Laser cut into birch wood, 2022); They held each other (NESTING), (02.30 minutes, Single-channel mini DV and HD film, color, sound, 2022, Collaboration with Char Jeré)
