Holding Place

Artist Bio

Meredith Morrison is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice seeks to negotiate and sustain memory-material relationships. Morrison’s work is process-based and experimental, embedding itself in traditional fiber and craft techniques. She often calls upon intuition, meditative labor, and repetition to systematically collect and build beaded cloths and designed objects.

In 2013 Morrison received her BA in Art + Design, concentrating in Fiber, and a BS in Textile Technology from North Carolina State University. Influenced by the economy of her home state, North Carolina, and the complicated overlapping of agriculture and textile labor found there, she moved to Chicago, Illinois in 2013 to pursue liaison building between art, craft, and the textile industry. Here, she honed her skills as a Textile Product and Home Furnishings Designer for seven years before trading the efficiency and scale of manufacturing to consider the slow, hand-building techniques of embellishment. In 2021, she completed
her MFA in Fiber at Cranbrook Academy of Art, focusing her practice on beadwork and object building. Since then, she has rooted her life and studio in Detroit, Michigan where she continues to explore memory while collecting and responding to material attachments of the Midwest. She is a recent recipient of The Emerging Artists Fellowship through The Knight Foundation and Playground Detroit and is looking forward to her upcoming solo presentations here and with SHAG in Charlotte, North Carolina.