Artist in Residence, Gail Meyer, in conversation with Helen Kavanagh. Learn more about Meyer's four week residency at RMOA and how works from the Collection inspired new directions in her artistic practice.

About Gail Meyer

Meyer is a Rockhampton-based artist with a practice spanning more than 20 years. Meyer’s relationship to her hometown Rockhampton, Central Queensland, on Darumbal Country, continues to inform her art-making. Exploring the attachment of memory and place with familiar environments, presents a challenge in representing the familiar in a new way, and not just pictorially.

Meyer undertook formal studies in visual art at Central Queensland University from 2000 to 2002 in drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and since then has diversified her practice further by attending a range of skills development workshops in the contemporary genre tutored by notable Australian artists such as Tim Storrier, Idris Murphy, Andrew Antoniou, David Fairbairn, Peter Sharp, and Jo Furlonger at an annual artist’s retreat in Central Queensland. Creating a wide range of visual stimulation and discussion around her work is the driving force behind her practice.

Meyer creates dynamic, immersive artworks, where ‘place’ is not only a source of inspiration but a way of connecting to others and expressing her identity and connection to the world.  A deep respect and sensitivity for the landscape of Darumbal Country is expressed through richly layered mixed media artworks that are joyful and whimsical.