Aidan Meacham

Artist Comments:

“Darkness is the natural state of the world, and light carves intention through it. Neither dark nor light carry any inherent moral weight in art- it's the intention sculpted from them that gives them the gravity of a push-and-pull relationship. My work intends to provide interplay between this relationship and the similar relationship between the physical, the mental, and the spiritual.”

“The work operates on a secular humanist interpretation of spirituality as a byproduct of the physical and mental experiences of inhabiting our world. It uses brutalist void and light to produce dreamscapes full of empathy yet unsentimental. Isolation, intimacy, callous cruelty, physical agony, dehumanization, humour and absurdity rendered in dark surrealism and without interest in human exceptionalism.”