I create paintings, architectures, masks and sounds, exploring themes of magic, connection, and the non-human world—particularly birds. My work is driven by a deep, intuitive exploration, allowing inner impulses to flow outward.
Since the pandemic, my practice has asked questions about where my body ends and the world begins, understanding myself as part of a vast web of beings often through a character I call the Birdwoman. The architectures I create—nests, domes, and scaffolds—feel alive and porous, deeply connected and entangled with their surroundings.
In this time of ecological and spiritual loss, my work offers a space for reimagining, dreaming of new perspectives and alternative ways of living, echoing Cherríe Moraga’s words: “of other planets I am dreaming, of other ways of seeing this life.”
Meaghan Elyse is an interdisciplinary artist working with design, biophilic sculpture, painting and performance. Her work explores the boundaries of our bodies, of home, of our surrounding ecologies, and the porousness of these edges. Along with collaborators, she is interested in creating spaces for interaction, for rest, for dreaming, for mourning, for healing.
(b. 1992, London, UK) She is based between Brooklyn, NY, Concord, MA, and Toulouse, France. She holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University where she was a recipient of the Leroy Neiman Fellowship.
