Still Hungry: Meg Gallagher
“There’s deep sensuality here, not in a performative or polished way but in real,
everyday ways. The feeling of salt water, dancing in the kitchen, being spooned,
biting into fruit. There’s the push-pull between exhaustion and joy, between
being a mother and wanting to feel like a woman again. And in the middle of that
is the body - still functional, still giving, but also still hungry for pleasure,
intimacy, freedom”
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Meg Gallagher explores the body as both vessel and landscape.
Drawing on her experience of early motherhood, Gallagher reflects on the
shifting boundaries between self and body,intimacy and routine, pleasure and
purpose.
Through stitched textiles, leather and found fabrics, she builds tactile
compositions that speak to human needs in their most elemental form: touch,
rest, air, water, love.
The works pulse with a quiet sensuality: golden elixirs of milk, the salt of ocean
water, the warmth of skin. They suggest moments of ordinary ecstasy: dancing
in the kitchen, diving beneath a wave, being held.
Gallagher’s materials - vintage fabrics, leathers, prints - carry histories of use
and care, woven into new configurations that feel both domestic and devotional.
Ink and paint add layers, obscuring the beginning and end of materials.
Still Hungry acknowledges the privilege and complexity of living inside a
functioning, feeling body. As a site of nourishment, desire, exhaustion, and
renewal, it asks what remains when our roles shift, when nurture becomes
second nature, and when the urge to create persists.
Between the practical and the divine, Gallagher’s works offer fragments of
longing, gratitude, and the enduring appetite of being human.
“There’s deep sensuality here, not in a performative or polished way but in real,
everyday ways. The feeling of salt water, dancing in the kitchen, being spooned,
biting into fruit. There’s the push-pull between exhaustion and joy, between
being a mother and wanting to feel like a woman again. And in the middle of that
is the body - still functional, still giving, but also still hungry for pleasure,
intimacy, freedom”.
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