About Meg
Meg Mosley is an award winning artist best known for her work investigating how belonging and identity production have adapted to the universal and cultural dominance of social media and the internet. She works across art forms including video, performance and photography. Meg’s fascinated by the seductive power of popular culture and communicates this in the meticulous production of her art. meg’s artistic direction can be found in every detail of her work from set design and location scouting, right down to the styling of every single look and costume herself. it’s in these details meg loves to tell her stories of mainstream desires, social norms and how marketing, mass media and the brand of ‘self’ now intermingle in our identities both online and offline.
Meg descends from of a family of exuberant matriarchs and spent her childhood immersed in learning the power of glamour and performativity from her mother and grandmother. meg’s mother wrote a book ‘she who dares wins’ in the 80’s and her grandmother was a pioneer in beauty therapy, this is where meg’s fascination with women stems from. both women knew how to use beauty to achieve their ambitions, her mother from the inside and her grandmother from the outside. This has enabled meg to gain a deep familiarity with the concepts of identity embedded in her unique art works that are highly relatable and relevant to us all. She is both in love with the mainstream and simultaneously able to critique it articulately. She belongs to the last generation with an analogue childhood and perceives that those behind her never experienced the creation of identity without social media. She hopes her voice bridges the generations to tell her story, to tell our story.
In 2004, Meg won a full scholarship from the Arts and Humanities Council to study for a Masters degree at The Slade School of Art focusing on the concept of ‘Belonging’. Her breakthrough work was Megastar in 2012 created to coincide with the rise of social media and the selfie. In 2019 meg was chosen to feature in a BBC ‘short’ about how dating apps are affecting our mental health.
Meg then deleted all her social media platforms and received a research and development grant from the Arts Council England to investigate the darker side of social media. In 2022 Meg premiered her film, (dis)content. In this short film, Meg brings to life, with dramatic staging and visual allegory, the emotional experiences that happen behind the addictive blue glow of our smart phones. It is a semi-autobiographical artwork that draws on her own experience and the stories she has gathered from young women.
Meg Mosley’s artwork has matured and her communication skills have been honed by her extensive interactive experience. She has literally ‘grown out’ of her Megastar persona to become a commanding artist and an artist advocate for her generation of women.
