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About Chris Meigh-Andrews

Working with electronic imaging in a fine art context since 1977, Chris Meigh-Andrews' video tapes, installations and projections have been exhibited in the UK, Europe, North & South America, Australia and Japan. His work has been featured in television and radio broadcasts in the UK, the USA, Germany, Sweden and Estonia.

Born in Essex, England in 1952, Meigh-Andrews lived in Montreal, Canada from 1957-75. He studied photography, film & video at the London College of Printing, has an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths (1981-83), and a Ph.D. from the Royal College of Art (1996-2001). He is currently Reader in Electronic & Digital Art in the Faculty of Design & Technology at the University of Central Lancashire.

Since 1990, Meigh-Andrews has specialised in sculptural and projection video installations, including commissioned and site-specific works which have been shown in the UK, Europe and Canada. Recent work includes Mind's Eye (1997), a 5 screen installation featuring fMRI scans of the artist's brain, Mothlight (1998), which features halogen lamps, solar panels and video monitors in delicate counter-balance, Merging/Emerging (1999) a site-specific digital installation featuring video projection and a linked web-site for the Bath International Music Festival.

His two most recent installations- A Photographic Truth, (2001) and For William Henry Fox Talbot (The Pencil of Nature) 2002, were commissioned by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

In 1994 he was Resident Artist in Electronic Imaging at Oxford Brookes University, and Artist in Residence at the Saw Contemporary Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada. In 1995 he was Video Artist in Residence at Middlesbrough Gallery, Cleveland, and Video Artist in Residence at the Prema Arts Centre in Gloucestershire

In 2001 He organised and co-curated The Digital Aesthetic, an exhibition and International conference in collaboration with the Harris Museum, Preston.