Hitchcock’s Coal 1

Meghan Price
Montreal, QC

Size

31.75" x 28.5"

Medium

Handwoven cotton and video tape

“Hitchcock’s Coal,” a series of three details of a diagram made by Orra White Hitchcock in the mid-19th century, employs magnification and weaving to focus on qualities of her medium and subject: ink on linen and structural geology. The behaviour of ink on linen defies the language of diagrams. Hitchcock’s colours bleed through the matrix of her substrate. Hard knowledge dissolves into chromatic pools. Transposed through weaving, Hitchcock’s medium, image, and subject have become entwined via a process akin to sedimentation. The diagram, now object, has moved from being about the world, to being in it.

Hitchcock’s Coal 1

Meghan Price
Montreal, QC

About the artist
About the artist

Meghan Price
Montreal, QC

Meghan Price is a Canadian visual artist living in Montréal. Her practice prominently employs textile methods and materials to foreground human relationships with the physical earth. Price has exhibited in spaces across Canada and internationally, including the Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris), Fiberspace (Stockholm), The Centre for Craft Creativity and Design (Asheville), and YYZ (Toronto). She has held residencies at the Banff Centre, the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, and the Icelandic Textile Center, and will be Artist-in Residence in Studio Arts at Concordia University (Montréal) beginning in the fall of 2023. Price’s work is in the Idea Exchange Contemporary Textile Collection and in the corporate collections of Aimia, Canada Goose, RBC, and TD Bank. She is represented by United Contemporary (Toronto).

Follow on social