Cat Meighan

Cat Meighan is a socially engaged contemporary visual art practitioner and producer who works on peer-led projects, workshop facilitation, research, teaching, coaching and mentoring. Cat’s work within communities brings about opportunities for discourse, action, and autonomy in creative projects for communities’ continued benefit and development.

Her visual arts practice uses the media of drawing, painting, printmaking, sculptural making, and installation. She responds to lived experience, dialogical, historical, archival, process and material research to make work. Her practice is highly collaborative; working with communities, other artists (e.g. public commissions) and in the artist-run initiative, Circus Artspace.

She is a founding member of Circus Artspace, which is based in Inverness; a collective that is committed to making contemporary art accessible to a broader Highland audience as well as supporting recent art graduates from our area.

Contextualising her practice in the social and relational has steered her from making in the traditional sense, and forced a multi-layered approach to creativity where all information can be valid, and experimentation of form and output encouraged. The ability to facilitate others’ creative experience is about the democratisation of culture and creativity - everyone can and should be able to access working in creative ways.

She worked on the national Culture Collective project, from 2021 - 2023 collaborating with women impacted by domestic abuse, sexual abuse and assault, and continues this work in collaboration with RASASH. She is also currently working as one of the lead artists on the Remembering Together Covid memorial project in Highland.

Her research interests include work and emotional labour, and how creatively embedded work can best function in context.