Meghan Josephine is an artist whose currently in her final year at Glasgow school of Art. Her paintings wish to create a discourse, embracing the need to create contradictions within her work, of tension. These paradoxes mirror her innermost beliefs, providing her with a platform in which she depicts the human form, exploring the boundaries within figurative painting. The physicality of oil paint, the traditional way of communicating allows her to find a visual language through it, reconstructing the pictorial ways of communicating the female body.

 

Diagnosed post-virally with chronic fatigue syndrome at aged fifteen, she battled asthenia, her shrinking form and when put on bed rest she taught herself to paint. To Meghan, her body became an object to prod and to poke, her flesh revealed and contorted her inner anguish.

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Meghan's research directly impacts her work, by using photographs from library archives, popular media images and her own personal photographs she intends to exploit tensions between past and present to create a dialectical interplay between narratives around gender.

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Re-drawing a women's place in history, exposing gender suppression, she aims to create a balance between representing women and creating a darker undercurrent to invite meaningful conversation about women's rights.