Based in Detroit, Michigan, Meredith Morrison is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice seeks to negotiate and sustain memory-material relationships. Morrison’s work is process-based and experimental, embedding itself in traditional fiber and craft techniques. She often calls upon intuition, meditative labor, and repetition to collect and build beaded cloths and designed objects in systematic compositions.
Influenced by the economy of her home state, North Carolina, and the complicated overlapping of agriculture and textiles, Morrison earned a BA in Art + Design, concentrating in Fiber, and a BS in Textile Technology from North Carolina State University. After moving to Chicago, Illinois to pursue liaison building between art, craft, and the textile industry. Here, she honed her skills as a Home Furnishings Product Designer for seven years before trading the efficiency and scale of manufacturing in consideration of slow, hand-building techniques of embellishment. Recently, she received an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has since rooted her studio practice in Detroit, Michigan where she continues to collect and respond to the material attachments of the Midwest. Her works have been shown regionally in the Midwest and the South, with recent solo exhibitions at 934 Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, SHAG in Charlotte, North Carolina, and an upcoming fellowship with Playground Detroit.
Morrison’s work was on view at SHAG in her solo exhibition, Confetti Chamber, through the month of June 2022.