The Substation/ Artist/Meagan Streader/
Meagan Streader is a contemporary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her work pushes the limits of light within sculpture and installation. Streader manipulates, reinterprets and extends upon the boundaries of constructed spaces. Her site-specific interventions and multidimensional use of light re-orientates the viewer’s relationship to the pre-existing architecture
and scale of a given space. In this way, Streader reveals the pervasive role of light in governing physical and social navigations of fabricated spaces.
Through phenomenological investigations, Streader explores past, present and future possibilities within her contemporary practice. She examines the emotional and social resonance of architecture and design to reveal how light, history and time converge to shape human experience. By altering perception, her work offers alternative ways of understanding our
spatial relationships, inviting viewers to consider light as a fundamental element in constructing meaning, memory, and embodied experience within the environments we inhabit.
Streader has exhibited both nationally and internationally in major exhibitions for the National Gallery of Victoria: Australia (Melbourne Now, 2023), Carriageworks (Sydney Contemporary, 2023), Melbourne Design Week (2023, 2024), HOTA (2019), Dark Mofo (2019) and Amsterdam Light Festival (2015). Her solo exhibitions include presentations at MARS (Victoria), Conners (Victoria), Stockroom Kyneton (Victoria) and Metro Arts Gallery (QLD). Local and international residencies include the NARS International Residency in New York City (2016), Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery Artist Residency (2020-2022), and Underbelly Arts Festival at Cockatoo Island, Sydney (2013). She has had large-scale public artworks commissioned across Australia for HOME (2024), Chadstone Art Collection (2025), Glen Huntly Station (2023) and Adderton House of Mercy (2019). Her work is featured on the cover and published in the book ‘Women Light Artists: Collected Light Volume Two’ (2025).
Recently, Streader was awarded an ISS Institute and George Alexander Foundation Fellowship (2025), and a three month residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, winning The Eva Breuer Travelling Art Scholarship through the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2026).
