About
Meredith Aitken’s work draws upon her environment with a focus on materiality, colour and composition. The work documents the subtle shifts in light and colour that define a place. As soon as a photograph is taken or a painting is finished, there is a disconnect; the work becomes something new in itself.
Meredith lives in Vancouver BC and works in oils, acrylics and mixed media, combining painting, collage and printmaking techniques. Meredith is currently in the Printermedia Residency Program, an extension of Malaspina Printmakers research residency program, exploring the intersection of print media with other media. She studied painting at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Recent exhibits include Of Other Spaces: Colour, Light and Place at the Richmond City Hall Galleria; Phases of Matter, Matters of Place at the Richmond Cultural Centre; MIXX at the Emily Carr Concourse Gallery; Breaking Ground at the Britannia Mining Museum; Concinnity at the Britannia Art Gallery; Discovery: Air at the Seymour Art Gallery; and Water Works at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Meredith’s work was selected for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Gala Exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and she participated in Massively SMALL at J GO Gallery in Park City, Utah. Her work was curated into the Ronald McDonald House in Vancouver, BC and the new hospital at Stanford University opened in late 2019. In 2014, Meredith received the Carole Badgley Emerging Artist Award from the Seymour Art Gallery, BC. Meredith regularly participated in the Eastside Culture Crawl and the Parker Art Salon until joining the Printermedia Residency at Malaspina’s Howe Street Studio.
Prints
Open edition prints are available at Artfully Walls and at Anthropologie.