TO SEE ALL AVAILABLE WORKS WITHIN THIS NEW EXHIBITION VIEW HERE
OLGA GALLERY - SECOND CHANCE SHOW - 2025
FURTHER - Artist in Residence
Meg Gallagher explores the body as both vessel and landscape.
Drawing on her experience of early motherhood, Gallagher reflects on the shifting boundaries between self and body, intimacy and routine, pleasure and purpose.
Through stitched textiles, leather and found fabrics, she builds tactile compositions that speak to human needs in their most elemental form: touch, rest, air, water, love.
The works pulse with a quiet sensuality: golden elixirs of milk, the salt of ocean water,the warmth of skin. They suggest moments of ordinary ecstasy: dancing in the kitchen, diving beneath a wave, being held.
Gallagher’s materials - vintage fabrics, leathers, prints - carry histories of use and care, woven into new configurations that feel both domestic and devotional. Ink and paint add layers, obscuring the beginning and end of materials.
Still Hungry acknowledges the privilege and complexity of living inside a functioning, feeling body. As a site of nourishment, desire, exhaustion, and renewal, it asks what remains when our roles shift, when nurture becomes second nature, and when the urge to create persists.
Between the practical and the divine, Gallagher’s works offer fragments of longing, gratitude, and the enduring appetite of being human.
“There’s deep sensuality here, not in a performative or polished way but in real, everyday ways. The feeling of salt water, dancing in the kitchen, being spooned, biting into fruit. There’s the push-pull between exhaustion and joy, between being a mother and wanting to feel like a woman again. And in the middle of that is the body - still functional, still giving, but also still hungry for pleasure, intimacy, freedom”
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ASTOR BRISTED GALLEY - OFFING SHOW - 2024
Olga Gallery - Solo Show - 2024
Meg Gallagher explores the body as both vessel and landscape.
Drawing on her experience of early motherhood, Gallagher reflects on the shifting boundaries between self and body, intimacy and routine, pleasure and purpose.
Through stitched textiles, leather and found fabrics, she builds tactile compositions that speak to human needs in their most elemental form: touch, rest, air, water, love.
The works pulse with a quiet sensuality: golden elixirs of milk, the salt of ocean water,the warmth of skin. They suggest moments of ordinary ecstasy: dancing in the kitchen, diving beneath a wave, being held.
Gallagher’s materials - vintage fabrics, leathers, prints - carry histories of use and care, woven into new configurations that feel both domestic and devotional. Ink and paint add layers, obscuring the beginning and end of materials.
Still Hungry acknowledges the privilege and complexity of living inside a functioning, feeling body. As a site of nourishment, desire, exhaustion, and renewal, it asks what remains when our roles shift, when nurture becomes second nature, and when the urge to create persists.
Between the practical and the divine, Gallagher’s works offer fragments of longing, gratitude, and the enduring appetite of being human.
“There’s deep sensuality here, not in a performative or polished way but in real, everyday ways. The feeling of salt water, dancing in the kitchen, being spooned, biting into fruit. There’s the push-pull between exhaustion and joy, between being a mother and wanting to feel like a woman again. And in the middle of that is the body - still functional, still giving, but also still hungry for pleasure, intimacy, freedom”
.
TO SEE ALL AVAILABLE WORKS WITHIN THIS NEW EXHIBITION VIEW HERE
OLGA GALLERY - SECOND CHANCE SHOW - 2025
ASTOR BRISTED GALLEY - OFFING SHOW - 2024
Olga Gallery - Solo Show - 2024
FURTHER - Artist in Residence
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