Megan Brierley is a multidisciplinary artist who uses ink, video, digital collage and projection mapping to explore the relationship between humans and their artificial other, the posthuman condition, and the commodification of women’s bodies. Megan adopts poses from 1970’s porn magazines to create monochromatic images of erotic and uncanny women, whilst also piecing together fragmented body parts within her digital work to explore the artificial and digitalised human. With artificial intelligence rapidly on the rise, reality becoming ever obscured, and society becoming more sexualised, Megan's work aims to merge the real and the artificial, whilst also uncovering the links between technologised bodies and pornography.
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Born in Salford, 1999.
Education
2020-2023: BA (hons) Fine Art, University of Salford
Group Exhibitions
2024: Allez Fest, Studio Bee, Manchester
2024: Islington Mill Open, Salford
2024: North Manchester Film Festival, SICK! Festival, Manchester
2024: Kunstlicker, Islington Mill, Salford
2023: Divine Feminine, Islington Mill, Salford
2023: S.I.R.E.N.S, Partisan Collective, Salford
2023: Islington Mill: 200 Years in the Making, Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Salford
2023: SiGHTiNGESTED, Geek Pictures, Tokyo
2023: TEES, Rogue Studios, Manchester
2023: BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, University of Salford, Salford
2023: A New Exhibition, Next Door Gallery, Manchester
2023: In the Flesh #2, Fierce Bar, Manchester
2023: Indelicate 3.0, West Art Collective, Antwerp Mansion, Manchester
2023: Labia Mania, Islington Mill, Salford
2022: Kunstlicker, Peer Hat, Manchester
2022: Festival Povera, Day of Cinema, Big Hands, Manchester
2022: Reset The System, West Art Collective, Antwerp Mansion, Manchester
2021: Windows of Opportunity, The Howarth Charitable Trust Life Class, Online Exhibition
2020: Window Gallery, University of Salford, Salford
Curatorial Practice
2024: Kunstlicker, Islington Mill, Salford
2023: Divine Feminine, Islington Mill, Salford
2022: Labia Mania, Islington Mill, Salford
2022: Kunstlicker, Peer Hat, Manchester
Awards
2023: University of Salford Art Collection and School of Arts and Media Graduate Scholarship Award