Katarina Meglic

Statement

My figurative paintings are intended to convey shared emotional experiences, depicted through expressively posed subjects depicted in a painterly approach. The subjects may be engaged with their own reflection or navigating a chaotic abstract environment, but they are invariably vulnerable, multi-faceted beings worthy of connection.

GlogauAIR Project

The focus of the project is the relationship between pattern and person, including both visual repeating motifs and patterns of behaviour. Reflecting on the cyclical nature of human experience, that encapsulates phases of hardship, growth, and ease, the work will integrate figurative elements alongside repeating geometric forms, taking into account the role of cultural and ancestral pattern-making in both behavioural and visual aspects.

The residency will be spent researching cross-cultural visual pattern elements and usages, and translating these elements into a personal painted language.

Painting

CV Summary

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS

• On the Body Goward House, Victoria BC, October 2021
• Sweet Being Rollins Art Centre, Port Alberni BC, September 2021
• Sweet Being Denman Island Art Centre, Denman Island BC, July 2021
• On the Body Denman Island Art Centre, Denman Island BC, August 2020
• House of Mirrors Foyer Gallery, Squamish BC Feb 2020
• Recent Works Oak Bay Centre,Victoria BC, Sept/Oct 2019
• Recent Works MacMillan Art Centre, Parksville BC, July/Aug 2019
• Through the Looking Glass Lebel Gallery, Pincher Creek AB, May 2019
• Recent Works Qualicum Old School House Art Centre, Qualicum BC, Feb 2019
• House of Mirrors Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons BC, Feb 2019
• Updraft Denman Island Summer Gallery, Denman Island BC, Aug 2018
• Taking Flight Saanich Municipal Hall Main Gallery 2018
• That Time We Almost Drowned Denman Island Summer Gallery, 2017
• The Shortest Distance Denman Island Summer Gallery, 2006

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS

• Sooke Fine Arts Show 2022 (Juried)
• Figuratively Speaking The View Gallery and Vancouver Island University, 2022
• The Passionate Brush Peachland Art Gallery, with Kato Rempel AFCA, 2021
• Sooke Fine Arts Show 2020 (Juried)
• Langley Arts Council Figures in Movement 2020 (Juried)
• Sidney Fine Arts Show 2019 (Juried)
• Human Nature Cowichan Valley Portals Gallery, 2019
• Island Living Waterfront Gallery, Ladysmith 2019
• Sooke Fine Arts Show 2019 (Juried)
• Collected Denman Summer Gallery, 2019
• Cowichan Valley Fine Arts Show 2019
• LOOK! Victoria Arts Council 2019
• Strong Women, Strong WorldVictoria Arts Council, 2018 (Juried)
• Text to Image to Text Comox Valley Art Gallery 2017
• Inside Out Deman Summer Gallery, with Robin Mayor 2011
• In Your Dreams Deman Summer Gallery, 2008

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Glogau Artist Residency, 2023 (forthcoming)
• Barcelona Academy of Art, 2022
  Drawing Program (Figurative)
• Pacific Design Academy, 2000
  Graphic Design, Graphic Design History, Typography, Drawing & Illustration
• Victoria College of Art, 1998
  Drawing, Painting, Art History, Design, Sculpture

PRESS

• AN INTERVIEW WITH A FEW OF THE FIGURES IN MOVEMENT ARTISTS LAC, 2020
• DENMAN STUDIO TOUR WELCOMES TWO NEW FACESEYES ON BC, JULY 2019
• BODIES THAT TELL THE GRAPEVINE OCT 2017

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Workshop Facilitator (Art) The Old School House, Qualicum Beach 2019-2022
• Esquimalt Arts Festival 2019
• Denman Island Studio Tour 2019
• Qualicum Beach Art in Action 2018
• Greater Victoria Art Gallery Moss St Paint In 2018, 2022
• Denman Baroque Festival Set Designer, 2018

AWARDS

• BC Arts Council Scholarship, 2022
• Purchase Award Arts Denman Community Art Project Grant, 2021
• Writer’s Fellowship Arts Denman, 2021

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