Megan Little
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  • sculpture
    • abstract / contemplative
    • Psalms Series
    • playful
    • artist books
  • original prints
    • tell a story
    • Nashville City, hello
    • learning to see
  • Bio

Bio

Megan Little works with paper, wire and light to sculpt forms that delight the eye and invite curiosity. With a BA in Arts in the Visual Arts from Houghton College, and a Masters of Theological Studies from McMaster Divinity College, Megan combines her dual passions for art and theology in her current work.

Megan works, plays, and creates in Hamilton ON. She co-leads ASAH Creativity & Prayer Studio, a monthly gathering put on by GoHoP to explore the relationship between art, prayer and imagination.

Prior to moving back to Canada, Megan lived in Nashville, TN, where she served as President and sat on the board of the non-profit print studio Platetone, Printmaking, Book and Paper Arts. She taught numerous workshops at libraries, schools, and events with the non-profit Turnip Green Creative Reuse and also taught printmaking workshops for adults and children in the Nashville, TN area.
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Artist Statement

I believe that the richest and truest forms of art spring unashamedly from the soil at the center of a human being. The pulsing core of my life is not a solitary self-defined ‘me’ but rather a complex and beautiful friendship with my brother and the lover of my whole self: Jesus. 

It is my life’s delight to wake up day by day and meet with God. To meet him in the pages of his sacred love letter: the scriptures. To hear his quiet voice in the stillness and the inner landscape of imagination. To receive his warm love healing my heart, renewing my mind, and casting out all fear. And to see his face in all the everyday encounters with the people and creation he loves. 

It is my life’s work to tend and water all the good things that spring from this good dirt. The most valuable of these good fruits are the hidden ones; a kind word, an ever softening heart, a good deed done in love. As someone who oozes creativity from every pore in my body, these good fruits are also artistic. My creative work is an attempt to give language to the great dance of love at the centre of my life; a humble yet fiercely determined act of visual, poetic, and literary storytelling. 

The language of my art is at once universally symbolic and intensely personal. My desire is, through an ever emerging vocabulary of image and word, to communicate across barriers formed by our societies and barriers formed by our own fears and drive for self-preservation. By nature of our shared humanity, the language of my heart is, in some mysterious way, also the language of others’. The ebb and flow and unexpected twists and turns of my own story are, in profound ways, like those of all people.

My impulses to explore, collect, and see the beauty in little things drive my inclusion of a variety of materials and found objects. I thrive in playful and experimental combinations of materials and techniques in ways I have not tried before or not seen others try. Perfection in design or craft are never my goals. I am more interested in creating art that is always experimenting, always maturing and never shy to show the hand of the artist at play.

In much of my work, I explore the frontier of parallel meaning-making in both visual and poetic language. It is a constant challenge to thwart my innate desire for the text to explain the art, as an artist's statement explains a work of art, or for the art to explain the text, the way an illustration explains a scene in a story. Rather, I want text and visuals to play off one another, both revealing and obscuring in a way that invites the audience to wonder, ask questions, and bring their own meaning into the conversation. 

Ultimately, my hope is that tasting this feast will make my audience curious and awaken their desire to encounter their Creator through beauty and in the joyful and messy act of creating.


“You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,

with eternal pleasures at your right hand.” (Psalm 16:11)

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Solo Exhibitions

2017  Afloat and Gleaming, Green Gallery

2017  Travel Watercolors and Monoprints, Patricia Gordon Memorial Gallery

2016  August Exhibit, Patricia Gordon Memorial Gallery

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Awakenings: MDC Artist Series, 2022, McMaster Divinity College

2019 
Tread lightly, Eucharist Church

2018  Fur & Feathers, Shells and Scales, Patricia Gordon Memorial Gallery

2017  This, That, and Another Thing: Platetone at Belmont, Gallery 121

2016  Pop-Up Exhibition, Picture This Creative Framing and Gallery

2016  Many Hands Make Light Work, Blend Studio

2015  Our Journey, 40AU Gallery

2015  Platetone Exhibition, Green Hills Library

2014  Flying Solo, Nashville Airport

2014  Past, Present and Future: Platetone 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Harpeth Hall Gallery

2013   Alumni Exhibit, Ortlip Gallery

Artist Residencies

2019 Artist Residency at Eucharist Church in Hamilton ON CA

2017 Artist Residency at Turnip Green Creative Reuse in Nashville TN USA

Video About Artist Residency at Eucharist Church 2019

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  • home
  • sculpture
    • abstract / contemplative
    • Psalms Series
    • playful
    • artist books
  • original prints
    • tell a story
    • Nashville City, hello
    • learning to see
  • Bio