Artist Profile

MEAGAN STREADER

Light, for me, is calming, healing, energetic, grounding, and spiritual

To encounter Meagan Streader’s work is to experience the phenomenon of light, not just as a series of wavelengths that bounce off surfaces to reveal the physical world, but as something itself physical, relational and emotional.

, 2019, presented at Dark Mofo, is one of a series of site-specific works made with white electroluminescent tape extended long strands of glowing tape across the empty space of an abandoned building. Meagan constructed the sensation of cascading light beams through an open window, pooling and reflecting along the floor; simulating

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