Meghan is a curator, educator and writer with fifteen years’ experience in programming across a range of spaces, specialising in artist development, education, and artistic projects which affect social change. She works on projects supporting artists and arts organisations with socially engaged curatorial projects, artist development, and alternative arts education. She supports artists and artist-led projects with a focus on sculpture, disability justice, and feminism.
Previously she was Head of Artist Development at Freelands Foundation, leading on the strategic development and delivery of UK-wide programming and partnerships, including residency, fellowship and artist development projects. Prior to this she was Engagement Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture International (a partnership of Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park), curating one of the festival’s major public realm commissions, the Associate Artist Programme, the Sculpture Network, and programming talks, workshops and socially engaged projects bringing together artists with universities, schools, and communities across West Yorkshire.
Meghan has delivered freelance projects with Harewood House, Invisible Dust, and New Painters, Modern Decorators. She has written commissioned texts for artists Bijan Amini-Alavijeh, Victoria Lucas, and Lucie Kordacova. She has advised a number of artist-led projects such as Decoda (a project by artists Ro Robertson and SHARP) in Cornwall; Threshold, a sculpture project by artist Julia McKinlay in Leeds; and was a board member for Yorkshire Artspace, a studio and residency provider in Sheffield.
She holds a BA and MA in the History of Art from The Courtauld Institute of Art, specialising in 20th century art in Britain. Her MA dissertation on maternity in the sculpture of Betty Rea won the Henry Moore Foundation Prize.