Tim Meakins

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Tim Meakins is an Artist and Designer based in Perth (Boorloo), Western Australia. Working across sculpture, painting, print, animation and publishing, he employs a visual grammar drawn from the history (and present) of computer graphics/operating systems and cartoons to create intensely energetic propositions around the ever-mutating forms, limits, plasticity, optical register and possibilities of digital and analogue states-of-being. Tim’s work merges elements of graphic design with visual investigations into human connection and physicality, often pushing the boundaries of how the body is imagined, stretched, and reshaped. These creative outcomes often appear as cartoonish manifestations of strength and power; bright characters in demonstrative poses, flexing and lifting heavy objects whilst referencing an array of cultural tropes, from remixed folklore and worldbuilding to fantasy and gym culture.

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Exhibitions: Solo
2024 – Body Mould, Sweet Pea, Perth
2023 – Sports Dreams, Cheap Tongue, Fremantle
2023 – Liftlore (Folklore), Goolugatup Heathcote, Perth
2021/22 – Muscle Beach, AGWA (Art Gallery of Western Australia), Perth
2021 – Pump Iron Til’ You Are Iron, Tributary Projects, Canberra
2019 – Low Energy, Cool Change Contemporary, Perth
2018 – Big Kicks, Smart Casual, Perth

Exhibitions: Group
2023 – Night Light, Lawson Flats, Perth
2022 – OOP Festival, Seoul, Korea
2022 – Snap Shot 2, Outerspace, Brisbane
2021 – Fremantle Print Award 2021, FAC, Fremantle
2019 – Fremantle Print Award 2019, FAC, Fremantle

Permanent Works:
2022 – Big Flower, Fremantle
2022 – Hidden Nature/Things, Kwinana