Meggs – Art / Aerosol / Design

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Graduating with a Bachelor of design from Swinburne University, Meggs has worked as both a commercial designer and image maker as well as continually evolving his skills in painting, illustration and screen printing to explore his own unique style of character work from both walls to canvas. Meggs’ artwork reflects his background in graffiti art, skateboarding, illustration and design.

Initially recognised for his stencils and aerosol art throughout the CBD and surrounding suburbs, Meggs has evolved his skills in painting, illustration and screen printing to explore his own unique style of character work from both wall
to canvas. His work can be found predominantly around the streets of Melbourne, however has also travelled as far as London, Tokyo, Barcelona and Paris.

Meggs’ artwork reflects his background in graffiti art, illustration and design.
The exploration of conscience, self-awareness, frustration and vulnerability are underlying themes throughout his work which challenge social ideals of morality and responsibility. Using references to his own childhood nostalgia and personal frustrations, Meggs juxtaposes pop-culture imagery and abstraction to create a collage of characters and an expression of emotion and movement.

Meggs is also a member of the renowned Everfresh Studio, a unique collective of artists whose work spans from street art, murals, exhibitions and commissioned design projects. Everfresh Studio recently hosted Backwoods, their first ever group exhibition, and possibly Melbourne’s biggest ever street-art studio show, with an opening night attendance of over a thousand people.

Meggs’ work has appeared in several publications, periodicals and online magazines such as Desktop Magazine, The Age Newspaper and The A-Z of Melbourne Graffiti. In particular Meggs was a featured artist in the popular book Melbourne: Stencil Graffiti Capitol, 2006.

Since 2003 Meggs has contributed to numerous exhibitions such as Streetworks (May 2004) at Flinders Lane Gallery, The 2004/2005/2006 Melbourne/Sydney Stencil Festivals, K-Swiss K-Spray Asia Tour, September 2005 and the No-Comply Skateboard Festival at Federation Square 2007.

Meggs’ held his first solo exhibition ‘Alter Egotism’ in September 2007. Following the sell-out success of this show he has sold out paintings in recent Melbourne & Perth Everfresh exhibition and accepted numerous commissions. In April 2008 his painting ‘Mission in Life’ (owned by collector Marc Jallon) was sold through ArtCurial Auction house in Paris for EU4500 ($7500AUD).