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“If I show up here with curiosity, I’m good. Something will happen.”
Painting
Community-scale painting — walls made with neighbourhoods, schools, libraries, and volunteer crews across Wellington County and beyond. From a 36-foot mural painted with 150 volunteers for the Peoples’ Information Network to schoolyard walls with grade-six crews, these are paintings a community authors together.
View the mural galleryCommissioned and exhibited portraiture — people and the occasional very good dog. Winner of BravoTV’s Star Portraits and the Toronto Art Battle, Meredith has painted portraits for twenty years, live on stage and quietly from the studio. Send a picture of your loved ones and she will create a portrait.
View the portrait galleryAbout
Meredith Blackmore is a painter, performer, and community artist. She holds a Fine Arts degree from the University of Guelph and has sustained a dedicated artistic practice for more than twenty years, alongside a parallel life as a language and arts educator.
From 2014 to 2021 she created and facilitated Studiohere, an open studio art school for all ages, built on a simple conviction: everyone can learn to draw — the magic is in honouring the desire to.
Her work moves fluidly between disciplines. She has won multiple live-painting awards, including the Toronto Art Battle (2013), painted live at an Aretha Franklin concert and a Toronto International Film Festival event, and her portrait of dancer Rex Harrington won an episode of BravoTV’s Star Portraits. As a dancer and performance artist she was a Guelph Dance Artist-in-Residence (2021–22), with recent performances at KazooFest, the Elora Centre for the Arts, and Hamilton Supercrawl — where she danced a beguiling duet with a cardboard box.
Loving how art builds community, she has led large-scale public projects including a 36-foot mural painted with 150 volunteers for the Peoples’ Information Network.
Contact
meredithblackmore@yahoo.com