Damien Meade b. 1969
"On a pyre on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi, a fire rips through
the middle of a long object wrapped in brightly coloured sheets. Time
passes, and the form collapses. A long section tumbles to the ground and is
tossed back onto the hungry inferno.
The object absorbs my gaze. The object of my gaze is consumed. The
consumed object is absorbed. The object that gazed is consumed."
Damien Meade lives and works in London and Madrid. Recent solo exhibitions include Italics PANORAMA Monferrato, Italy (2024), Sid Motion Gallery hosted by Sadie Coles HQ, London (2023), day.01 Gallery, Sydney, (2024, 2023), Plus-One Gallery, Antwerp, (2022), CAR Gallery, Bologna, (2022, 2018). Recent group exhibitions include: day.01 Gallery, Sydney (2025) Limerick City Gallery, Ireland (2025), Workplace Gallery, London (2025, 2022), WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong (2024), Turps Gallery, London, (2023), Umberto Di Marino Gallery, Naples (2023) GAM Museum, Turin (2020), MONA Museum, Australia (2019). He received an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 1993. He was awarded the Abbey Fellowship in Painting to The British School at Rome in 2018.
He is interested in how certain objects or moments can sometimes
suggest a homelessness of sentience.
His paintings are the culmination of a layered studio-based process that
encompass drawing, sculpture, photography, and digital manipulation.
Explorations in clay are reimagined in paint. As paintings, they drift between the genres of portraiture, still life and abstraction. As surfaces, the paintings often convey a sensual tactility. As images, they are a distillation of art-historical, archaic and personal references. Throughout this multilayered practice I look to embrace
ambiguity, pursuing images of an uncertain or unsettling nature.