ABOUT
Meghan Bustard is a Canadian based artist living and working in Vancouver, BC, on the unceeded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Meghan’s work is rooted in a process of tactile discovery and imaginative exchange between place and paint. Her paintings are interested in the way experiences of place are written into memory, and she is especially interested in the way emotional response is present in memory making, and can be intertwined with and depicted through art making. She learns places with a curious eye for intersection, continuity, and disruption, while probing the emotional impact each shape, line, colour, and mark have on the viewer. With that in mind, her abstractions gesture at the interplay of form, colour, and pattern in the spaces that shape her world. Her pieces are often in conversation with each other, spilling over from one frame into the next with playful movement as details are remembered, forgotten, bent, fragmented, and brought in and out of focus and importance.
CV
1989, Born in Vancouver, Canada
Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023, Unreliable Narrator, Kasko Gallery, (Vancouver, Canada)
2020, Artist Spotlight: Meghan Bustard, at Devise Design (Vancouver, Canada)
2020, Meghan Bustard X Punch Studio, Punch Studio (Vancouver, Canada)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023, With Feeling, Liz Lidgett Gallery, (Des Moines, USA)
2023, Holiday in July, Liz Lidgett Gallery, (Des Moines, USA)
2022, To Have It So Good, Liz Lidgett Gallery, (Des Moines, USA)
2011, A Parade Marching Backwards in Time, Fort Gallery, (Fort Langley, Canada)
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
2023 - present: Sugarlift Gallery, NYC, USA
2022 - present: Liz Lidgett Gallery, Des Moines, USA
COLLECTIONS OF WORK
2023:
CORPORATE CLIENTS AND COLLABORATIONS
Sundays Furniture
Vans
Matchstick Coffee
Greige Luxury Interiors
Wilet
Little Burgundy
Supercrush
Provincial Spirits
Punch Studios
Wayne & Freda Coffee
Project 22 Designs
Sophie Burke Designs
Line Contracting
Nettles Tale
Emma Thayer Designs
Establishment Design
Devise Designs
SPECIAL PROJECTS AND INTERVIEWS
2024, interview, Lemon Magazine (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022, The space where art and memories meet, video and interview, Vans, and Little Burgundy Shoes (Montreal, Canada)
2021, Artist at work: Meghan Bustard, Valley Commons (Langley, Canada)
2021, Meet artist Meghan Bustard, HelloZora (Vancouver, Canada)
2021, In Conversation: Meghan Bustard, Mother Muse Magazine
2020, mural, Wayne & Freda Coffee, (Penticton, Canada)
2019, limited edition totes, Supercrush, (Vancouver, Canada)
2019, mural, Mt Pleasant Counselling, (Vancouver, Canada)
EDUCATION
2011, Bachelor of Arts, Visual Art and Design, TWU, Langley, Canada
2014-2015 studied art therapy at Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, Vancouver, Canada
Meghan has work in private collections worldwide including Canada, USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, UK, Switzerland, Germany, Portugal, and Mexico