Tim Meakins

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Tim Meakins is an Artist and Designer from Perth, currently based in the Pilbara, 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 graphic design background feeds directly into visual investigations of human connection and inner dialogues; exploring how these construct relations to our physical reality and serve as points of departure for rearticulating how we think of the human body, nonhuman companions, and inanimate objects. By reworking common materials and cultural motifs, be it characters from Arthurian folklore, playground materials, industrial machinery, or gym equipment, Tim’s projects present micro-worlds that pull disparate objects and ideas into relation of each other. In doing so, Tim’s outcomes reinterpret the real world in playful and humorous ways that shift how familiar forms are understood.

A core part of his practice is the active exchange between digital tools and physical fabrication. He works with Virtual Reality drawing, 3D modelling, technical drafting, and animation, then brings these forms into the physical world through 3D printing and industrial construction. This movement between the hand and the machine shapes investigations into identity, humour, failure, and physicality.

Tim Meakins is represented by Australian gallery AVA (formerly Sweet Pea). 

Exhibitions:

Solo
2025 – Recovery Mode, Jacky Winter Gallery, Melbourne
2025 – Signal The Moment I Disconnect, Rauch Offspace, Krefeld - Germany
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

Group
2025 – 100 Lights, Friends & Associates, Melbourne
2025 – Relic, Goolugatup Heathcote, Perth
2023 – Night Light, Lawson Flats, Perth
2022 – OOP Festival, Seoul, Korea
2022 – Snap Shot 2, Outerspace, Brisbane

Art Prizes
2025 – Maquette: Sculpture Award, McClelland Gallery, Victoria (Upcoming)
2025 – Joondalup Art Prize, Joondalup Contemporary Arts Gallery, Perth
2025 – Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Gallery, New South Wales
2025 – Fremantle Print Award 2025, FAC, Fremantle
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