Meaghan Fleming is a multimedia artist who explores trauma and represents intangible feelings in physical space. Her practice primarily manifests in the sculptural form portraying themes of womanhood, abuse, grief, and childhood. Her work has been exhibited in multiple showcases and festivals including Art on the Move (2021), Digital Graffiti Festival (2022, 2023), Show Me Research (2023), and the Visual Art and Design Showcase (2023). Fleming is currently working on her Digital Graffiti 2024 project by animating three dimensional paintings surrounding grief, her solo sculptural exhibition at the University of Missouri-Columbia and researching common dialect describing women in the workforce/academics for her thesis project. Fleming is currently pursuing her undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia, earning a Bachelor of Digital Storytelling and Bachelor of Art. She is currently based in Columbia, MO and regularly commutes to Saint Louis, MO, which is where she was born and raised.  

My mixed media practice is rooted in trauma and surrounds themes of womanhood, abuse, grief, and childhood. I am interested in sharing both an emotional connection and experience with my viewers and activating a visceral response in which I am able to bring them to feel the narrative within the sculpture in that moment. With storytelling through poetry at the core of my work, I utilize various mediums to create sculptural installations which include painting, drawing, video/audio, ceramics, and projection. The bones of my sculptural craft are in raw materials such as woodworking, steel bending, and plaster casts. I hope both to encourage my viewers to embrace vulnerability in taking that step first myself. I have been attracted to the portrayals of raw human emotion since I was a young girl, and therefore my work is about crafting the disturbing aspects of life and exploring new methods of representing intangible feelings in physical space.