Megan Riley

My practice focuses on finding materials and challenging their properties to give them new purpose, whether that be heightening their original intents or completely reconfiguring that element of the material. I aim to find combinations of materials through piecing them together and making new forms as a reflection of my life’s occurrences and encounters, challenging and exploring my internal anxieties as a means of therapeutic outlet. Although certain configurations will seem strange and uneasy, it’s about my own relations with materials and how I make sense of them in my own mind.

Currently, my practice consists of very hard and industrial materials, such as wood, plasterboard, cables etc. and also very soft materials such as bedsheets and strings – all of which can be found in the domestic home. The home has become a source of inspiration and something I aim to expose within my practice after moving and completely stripping out and renovating the new house. Therefore, the materials I am currently sourcing (through tough labour) are reflective of this. However when the house is complete my work will find a new source of inspiration in terms of material and the relationship that connects me to them.