Portfolio
Artwork
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![Failure is Always the Best Way to Learn]()
Meaghan Sweeney
Failure is Always the Best Way to Learn, 2024
Watercolour and ink on paper
23"x30"
The work's title is a lyric from the song Failure by Kings of Convenience. It is featured on their album Quiet is the New Loud, which I find soothing. This artwork combines depictions of things I find comforting: my pets, tea, willow trees, slippers, a comfy sweater, and the discomfort represented by the contortion of the body. My interpretation of 'Celebrating Home' is about recognizing my experience and complexities with what I enjoy the most. As a person living with OCD, I can find myself overwhelmingly distressed by intrusive thoughts in a way that can lead to the avoidance of the very things that bring me joy. Sometimes, I am moving through my most beautiful life moments with a certain amount of discomfort because of that. This work hopes to honour both aspects of my experience and to exist with the discomfort, not despite it.
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![Bust with two heads facing different angles]()
Meaghan Sweeney
Awkward Growth, 2023
Mixed Media on Repurposed Board
16"x20"
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![Mason jars filled with flowers on white pedastal]()
Photo from Meaghan Sweeney’s solo art exhibition An Invitation to Exist, at Artspeak Gallery in Windsor, Ontario, October 2022
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![Person sitting and observing exhibition]()
Photo taken by Claire Baldwin, from Meaghan Sweeney’s solo art exhibition An Invitation to Exist, at Artspeak Gallery in Windsor, Ontario, October 2022
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![Poem created from cutout words with multicolored inkblot and black ink]()
Meaghan Sweeney
Surviving Martyr/Alchemized Pain, 2022
Mixed media collage on wood panel
25 cm x 25 cm
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![Serene face painted with watercolour and surrounded by black ink doodles and cutout words]()
Meaghan Sweeney
The Opposite of Love is Fear, 2022
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![Watercolour face with multiple eyes floating among foliage]()
Meaghan Sweeney
Decay, 2021
Watercolour on paper
4”x 6”
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![Face with multiple sets of eyes and multiple heads growing out of the top, floating on blue background, surrounded by foliage]()
Meaghan Sweeney
Disruptions, 2020
Watercolour and acrylic on paper
9” x12”
A reflection on the complexity and discomfort of change, the beauty of growth and the inevitability of each.
Commissions
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![Closeup of brown dog laying on dark grey couch]()
Meaghan Sweeney
Bailey, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
8”x10”
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![Closeup of white hand with fingertips emerging from blue fog]()
Meaghan Sweeney
Beyond the Fog, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
16"x20"
This work was prompted by a compilation of quotes and songs. It was a fun challenge to use words, moods, and emotions to create a visual image.
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![Guitar with mushrooms growing out of it laying on forest floor at twilight]()
Meaghan Sweeney
The Mushroom Songs, 2023
Acrylic on paper, digitally edited
2023 Tour poster for the Post-Classical Guitar Collective: @bilalguitar, @simonf_guitar and @samuel.c.mason
The Post-Classical Guitar Collective is a group of composer-guitarists who blend their craft with post-rock, shoegaze, ambient electronic, and psychedelic folk. Their goal is to bring classical guitar to a wider audience, leaving behind the constraints of academia in favour of creative expression.
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![Winding yellow path intertwined with pink blooming tree. Small shaggy green dog at the beginning of the path]()
Meaghan Sweeney
Magnum’s Opus, 2021
Mixed media on paper
9”x12”
Album art was commissioned by the musician Modern Mason for the album Magnum's Opus released July 21, 2023
Recorded and Produced by: Drew Henderson at the church of St. Mary Magdalene in Toronto, Canada.
Guitar built by: Jeff Sigurdson. British Columbia, Canada.
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![Stylized hands grasp for abstract oranges, all enclosed in a circle on a teal backgrounf]()
Illustrated by Meaghan Sweeney
Where the Orange Groove Grows album art, 2021
Commission for musician Bilal Nasser
Digitally edited by Samuel C. Mason
