Mish Meijers is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice experiments in surface tensions: how one material conforms or abrades against the matter of another. Whether in actuality, or within conceptual content, she distorts the inherent worth and significance of her objects with regard to popular culture, gender determination and functionality, in an alchemic and at times discordant sensibility to construct her sculptural tableaux. Meijers maintains a distinct solo practice in addition to her collaborative works with artist Tricky Walsh.
Meijers + Walsh are in their seventh year of collaborative practice with their three primary projects: Henri Papin – the Collector; a superfiction which examines aspects of social anthropology through the development of an obsessive character and his psychological schema within a series of large scale sculptural installations.
The Subterranean Plant Society is a fictional society who through presentations and the manufacturing of ‘artefacts’ and archaeological finds, seek to reconstruct and reconfigure history through discoveries and scientific invention.
In contrast to the Henri Papin project where the collaboration is narrative based and an intrinsic part of the development of the concept, TSPS is a vehicle which develops a causal visual language as the governing principle of the collaborative integration.
And the installation/performance group The Holy Trinity (with artist Alicia King) – A fictional alliance of three self-proclaimed deities who exist in a highly saturated pop fantasyland and who undertake Tupperware-parties for the soul as induction rituals into their mystical sphere.
Meijers + Walsh have additionally undertaken other collaborations within the Six_a ARI structure which they initiated in 2007. Six_a focussed on the growth of experimentation within practice, the introduction of cross-discipline relationships and peer-based critical discourse for artists. External to the annual program, major collaborative projects included Battery operated Nextwave festival 2008, supercharger Nextwave festival 2010, Asia link ARI residency with HONF in Jogjakarta.
They have undertaken residencies in Jogjakarta, Paris and New York and have exhibited internationally and throughout Australia.
Meijers + Walsh are in their seventh year of collaborative practice with their three primary projects: Henri Papin – the Collector; a superfiction which examines aspects of social anthropology through the development of an obsessive character and his psychological schema within a series of large scale sculptural installations.
The Subterranean Plant Society is a fictional society who through presentations and the manufacturing of ‘artefacts’ and archaeological finds, seek to reconstruct and reconfigure history through discoveries and scientific invention.
In contrast to the Henri Papin project where the collaboration is narrative based and an intrinsic part of the development of the concept, TSPS is a vehicle which develops a causal visual language as the governing principle of the collaborative integration.
And the installation/performance group The Holy Trinity (with artist Alicia King) – A fictional alliance of three self-proclaimed deities who exist in a highly saturated pop fantasyland and who undertake Tupperware-parties for the soul as induction rituals into their mystical sphere.
Meijers + Walsh have additionally undertaken other collaborations within the Six_a ARI structure which they initiated in 2007. Six_a focussed on the growth of experimentation within practice, the introduction of cross-discipline relationships and peer-based critical discourse for artists. External to the annual program, major collaborative projects included Battery operated Nextwave festival 2008, supercharger Nextwave festival 2010, Asia link ARI residency with HONF in Jogjakarta.
They have undertaken residencies in Jogjakarta, Paris and New York and have exhibited internationally and throughout Australia.
