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Andrea Meacham
Tear Jerker
exhibition
offsite
19 Jul – 06 Aug 2024
18:00–17:00
Cool Change and PS Art Space are pleased to present Tear Jerker, a solo exhibition by Andrea Meacham (VIC), featuring an accompanying text by Sarah Byrne.
Tear Jerker reimagines the Cocytus River as a strange, twisted bathhouse. It's a muffled wail of grief and aloneness—of pain and suffering swirling away, under the surface, out of view—held at bay by doom-scrolling and dissociative ceiling-staring—rearing its head in private therapy rooms or ugly crying while trying to brush your teeth in the shower. Tear Jerker tries to entangle you in an eternal karaoke video; you slosh about, chased by dolphins and earworms while dry retching at the congealed, soapy hair clump staring out at you from the abyss. Just relax and cry; things won't be fine, fine, fine.
Gallery 1
Exhibition opening:
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Friday, 19 July 2024
Public programming:
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday, 20 July 2024
With Video Rainbows
Exhibition duration:
20 July – 6 August 2024
Due to venue maintenance at PS Art Space, exhibitions will now be located at Old Customs House
8 Phillimore Street, Fremantle WA 6160
Sunday – Monday • Closed
Tuesday – Friday • 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday • 12:00 – 4:00 PM
Unless otherwise specified
Please note: If you require wheelchair access to enter the building, we are happy to organise this via the external ramp. We will arrange for the door to be opened and offer assistance as required.
Andrea Meacham is a multidisciplinary artist working in Birrarung-ga/Naarm, so-called Melbourne, Australia. Drawing from cinema, pop culture, music, sex, and mythology, they create tongue-in-cheek monuments to care, fragility, and embarrassment.
Andrea’s work intersects joyful failure with magical dreaming, culminating in a playful practice that embraces multisensory experiences of video, performance, sculpture, textiles, painting, drawing, and sound. They use humour to cultivate encounters between artist and audience that examine hot-and-prickly emotional states relating to shame, fear, and sadness.
Andrea presented a solo show at Seventh Gallery Melbourne in 2022, titled Like a heartbeat drives you mad. Andrea has exhibited among other artists at Elevator Gallery, Lismore (Ultra Terrestrial, 2023), has illustrated covers for poetry anthologies (No More Poetry, 2023) and facilitated critical reading groups (Collapse, 2020–22).
In 2020, Andrea graduated with a Master of Fine Art with Distinction at RMIT and received the Lowenstein Arts Management Prize and the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Excellence.
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