Meredith Gunderson is a current MA Sculpture student at the Royal College of Art. Her multidisciplinary practice draws from ethical complexities, voids and limitations within systems of knowledge and knowledge hierarchies inherited from the Enlightenment world views — world views which currently drive largely unconscious impulses in Western culture such as systems of measurement and classification and practices of extraction and exploitation for the purposes of profit at a great cost to humanity.

Meredith often extrapolates from catalogued museum and library collections to create abstracted, counter narratives open to a range of symbolic readings. She also explores how the role of knowledge acquired through the body and through esoteric and spiritual means sits within and outside more traditional frameworks of knowledge. 

Based in the UK since 2001 primarily in London, as well as Edinburgh, Cambridge and the Hebrides. 

b. Buffalo, New York
Lives and works in London

Education
MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, class of 2025
BA (Hons) Ceramics with First Class Honours, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 2024
BA Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998

Solo
Telling Lost Stories, 2023, Arts SU Gallery, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Group
Rites of Ruins, 2025, curated by asdf collective, Juliana Hellerman and Nathalia Bertazi, Safe House 1, Peckham, London

Festival of Festus 2024, Hangar Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

InVisible, 2024, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

Afterwalls: of the panopticon and its ruins, 2024, curated by Catherine Li, Charmaine Wah, Yaqi Liang, Wanjing Lin, CCW Millbank Tower, Studio 18, University of the Arts London

Future Experts, 2024, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London

Teaching
Guest Lecturer on Research Embedded Practice with studio tutorials for BA Fine Art, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK 2025

Forest of Dean Residential Teaching for BA Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire, Intuition and Creative Practice half day session conceived and delivered in collaboration with Ise Sharp and Kenneth Greiner, 2025

Selected Curatorial Projects
Moving Material, Public Talks Programme on Creative Practice with Clay, Central Saint Martins, London, 2024

High Line Symposium, Garden Museum, London, 2012

Library Letters and Love, by Andrew Logan, Public Art Commission 2010 - 2012

Trattoria by Martino Gamper, London, 2009

Rivers Baghdad, New Media Exhibition at Benjamin Franklin House, London and Collaborative public artwork in London and Baghdad with UK artist, Theresa Caruana and anonymous Iraqi artist, Zeinab, supported by Nottingham University’s Mixed Reality Lab, 2009

Microgarden World Premier, Stan Brakhage, TIE Film Festival, Denver, 2001

do it, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Independent Curators International, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998

Film Placements
(In)Visible, 2024, directed by Sam Joseph, Caryatid features in opening and closing scene