Tim Meacham

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Ongoing/Upcoming 

                                

Spare One. Domestic exhibition/project space

Brenchley, Audio narrative as research. Developed and recorded with Paul Ritter for future broadcast on Resonance FM

Allotment Radio. Project to establish a temporary radio station in local allotment                                                                                                         Artist in residence Chesham House 2006 to present 
 

Selected exhibitions/research outputs

 

2021-2022

Turner Contemporary Open. Glass Choir

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2019

Purifier: Group exhibition Faversham

House X-odarap: Group exhibition Herne Bay

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2018

Feb 2018  Eye of the Needle Hantverk & Found Installation in conjunction with  Journeys with ‘The Waste Land'  at Turner Contemporary Margate  

January 2018 Large Objects Moving Air CRiSAP - Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice, London College of Communication01

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2017

11th December 2017 It was dust installation Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent at Canterbury

October 2017 HOUSE Paradox, Beach Creative, Herne Bay

7th June 2017 STICKY THICK. Thinking through Practice Practice Research Forum, School of Music & Fine Art, University of Kent

29th May 2017 Ropery Songs Chatham Historic Dockyard 

April 22 to 24 2017 The Sound of Memory Symposium, Goldsmiths, University of London and Whitechapel Gallery

 

2016

Localism and Legacy; Sound installation made from 1st World war artefacts, Faversham

Sticky Thick. Thinking through Practice. Practice Research Forum, Whitstable Biennale

Uncommon Chemistry The Observer Building, Hastings

2015            

Involved in recording for the Sonorama project with Claudia Molitor, Turner Contemporary and Southeastern trains

2014 

Artmoves QE Olympic Park London: Interactive art piece
Tone Festival Chatham: performative installation
2013

Symposium of Acoustic Ecology Chatham Dockyard: sound installation;
Art in Romney Marsh: Commissioned artist, live sound installation

Curious site specific installation, South Norwood London.  
2012

Curious, site specific installation, South Norwood London.                                             

2010

From the Darkness: Brighton festival                                                           

Deaths and Entrances, St Mary’s Church, Faversham                                           

Artists Open House, Canterbury Festival

2008

Short-listed artist in National RSPB public art commission; proposals for edible installations on 2 bird reserves

Nominated in 4 categories in Inaugural Medway Culture and Design awards. Winner Heritage category for ARCH Project

2007

Co-coordinator of ARCH and Chair of North Kent Artists

Shimmer interactive installation as part of ARCH in redundant medieval church Cooling, Kent

2006

Member of Eastgate House Development Committee. Advising on the development of the former Dickens Centre in Rochester into an Arts and Cultural Centre

Founding committee member of HeART Medway, working with Heritage and Tourism, Arts Development, Hundred of Hoo School and Diocese of Rochester. Managing and coordinating Visual art events and projects in Kent                                                                                                               

2005

Turner Contemporary; Generate research project and exhibition                                                                    

2003

Elephant Ears, group show at the Powell-Cotton Museum, Kent                              

2002

Rapt, Prenelle Gallery, group show of installation                                       

2000

Football, Prenelle Gallery, Canary Wharf, London                                           

1998 Baffle, Camerawork Gallery, London. , 3-person show of Sound based installation.                                                                                   

Second Nature Battersea Park – Floating island of Bonsai trees, kinetic work installed on boating lake                  

1997 Work featured in Art Monthly                          

1996 Hampshire Museums - Touring 2-person show and education program       

1995 Two Particles, Clink Street Wharf Gallery - exhibition and education program. Interactive Kinetic Art reviewed in Time Out

Installation in Shop space, Hackney Hidden Art of Hackney                            

Founder member of London Fields Renewal Partnership, Hackney. Community group to establish artists' live/ work provision, working with various bodies including; Local authority, Arts Council, housing associations                                                                                          

Short-listed artist for lighting installations for local authority elements of design used in collaborative work, Hackney

1994 Computer World The Tannery, London

Art 94 Business Design Centre Exhibition

Kinetic work rented by group of surgeries and installed in waiting rooms.                                                                                            

X Days, Brixton, London - Angell Town Gallery – South London sound collective: mixed installation show show                                                  

Hidden Art of Hackney, Empty shop space, Hackney – site specific installation                                                                                         

London Fields, Hackney - Commission for sculptural park entrance markers         

1993 Open Flat, Catford, London show of sculpture, sound and lighting                

1992 Lighting Up Time, Bridstow Gallery, London. - illuminated sculpture             

1991 Fuse, Tricycle Gallery, London. – moving, sound and light sculpture                                                                                           

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, - kinetic sculpture. reviewed in The Observer

1989 Three English Artists, University of Pavia, Italy - – sculpture                               

ABB Building Milan - solo show of sculpture/ installation                                 

Satellite Gallery Milan - mixed show                                                                            

1988 Whitechapel Open Whitechapel Gallery - sculpture                                  

1987 House Leyton, London - installation solo show including sound                   

1986 Young Contemporaries ICA Exhibition - painting

 

Recent conferences and events attended

 

2016 Inner Space JG Ballard Symposium. British Library
2014 The Sculpture Question Folkestone Triennial and University for the Creative Arts,
The Sonorama Project: British library; Plenary
2009 Surface Tensions. Research conference V&A                                        

2008 Folkestone Biennial Research Conference Discussing engagement of local artists and community in event                               

2007 Estuaire; Nantes, France. Conference exploring public art, urban regeneration and community engagement.                                                        

2006 New Babylon, New urban spaces. St David’s Conference Centre, Cardiff.                                                                                     

Lost in Space, Conference exploring the relationship between art, place and time. Organised by Stour Valley Arts.