MARIA MEIGA IS
A GRAPHIC & TEXTILE ARTIST WORKING WITH
DESIGN, EMBROIDERY, ILLUSTRATION, VIDEO & INSTALLATIONS
TEXTILE INSTALLATION “RAIN FOREST”, KILDEVÆLD KULTURCENTER (2023-2024) The installation Rain Forest was created as decoration for Festival of Endless Gratitude 2023 decoration, where I worked not only with textile and different materials but also with lighting. Photo credits: Jan Jespersen Photo credits: Jan Jespersen The festival was taking place at Kildevæld Kulturcenter, a […]
VIDEO MAPPING INSTALLATION ETHEREAL REALITIES (2023) In collaboration with the visual artist Matei Petrescu, Ethereal Realities was a video mapping installation that occupied the space of the municipality building Kildevæld Kulturcenter during the Festival of Endless Gratitude 2023. The space became a living canvas, where the organic and the abstract merged. Projections through video mapping […]
VISUAL IDENTITY FOR FESTIVAL OF ENDLESS GRATITUDE (2020-2023) Since 2020 I was in charge of creating and designing the visual identity for the Festival of Endless Gratitude (FoEG), an art and experimental music based in Copenhagen that has existed for more than 10 years. The Festival wants to highlight their underground, experimental and analogue spirit […]
ARTWORK FOR “SELVLYSENDE”, BY POUL ERIK NIELSEN (2023) Watercolour, Glitter and Digital With the premise that this one was a dancing record, Poul Erik Nielsen hired me again for doing the artwork of his new record “Selvlysende”. It’s made combining watercolour and glitter and it’s digitally retouched.
VISUALS FOR INSTALLATION MAZE (2022) Installation made in collaboration with the textile artist Cecilie Schou Grønbeck for the Festival of Endless Gratitude 2022. Maze is an installation that defines the transit between two spaces, where an archive of materials is combined to create a labyrinth of layers where the analogue and digital rule over […]
SUMMER STORM (2022) Embroidery and ink on fabric This embroidery artwork was made for the collective exhibition “In-ert” that took place in the Første til Venstre Galleri in Copenhagen during the months of May and June of 2022, where I participated with two works that reveal the relationship between art and industry, arising the […]
FORGIVING LAND (2022) Embroidery Tryptich on Cotton Forgiving Land is a tryptich piece realized during the Tomma Rum artist residence in Burträsk (Sweden) during July 2022. It is handembroidery on cotton and it´s inspired by the textures and colours of North Sweden. It was exhibited at Hembydgården Dansbana together with the other works of the […]
COVER ART FOR DIFFERENT BOOKS (2020 – 2021) Digital and Mixed Illustrations “Club de Lectura Ilustrado” (Illustrated Reading Club) was a collaboration project around literature and illustration between my friend and also illustrator Montse Piñeiro during the years from 2020 to 2021. Since we were living in different countries and we both shared a passion […]
Et Stille Håb Animation (2021) Illustrations and Animation for a vaccine series podcast about cholera for Alinea and Red Cross, 2021 Alinea is a danish publishing house specialised in children and young school books and teaching material that belongs to the Egmont Group. In collaboration with the Red Cross they created a series of audio […]
SILENCIO (A TANGIBLE STUDIO) (2021) Digital Illustrations and Poems for a 27 pages fanzine, printed in risography in warm white paper 240 gr. Printed in 3 colours risography is a compilation about silence from writers I admire like Clarice Lispector, Sylvia Plath, Cortázar or Gabriel García Márquez, among others; and it´s my first attempt to […]
DAGBLADET INFORMATION ILLUSTRATIONS (2018-2019) Compilation of illustrations I made for the Danish Newspaper Information during the years 2018 and 2019. Illustrations for a special about the Dystopian times we are living in. Vinterbøger (Newspaper Information). Cover and inside illustrations: Illustration for Article inside the serie Vi tager økonomien tilbage (We are taking Economy […]