mei lin meyers
 Emerging Artist and Designer Award
Mei Lin Meyers (he/they) (b. 2002 Dharug Land) is a Neurodivergent, Chronically ill, Queer, Trans and Chinese-Anglo artist who lives on unceded Wangal Land. His playful practice merges sculpture, painting, drawing and writing. Mei Lin loves to attend to the strange connections between things, the hidden worlds shared between lemons, eggs, and piles of objects. Mei Lin makes and writes as a way to try and better understand their experiences of disorientation, racial trauma, Long-Covid and being an Autistic and ADHD guy in a hella spiky environment. Mei Lin draws upon Queer and Crip Theory, Critical Whiteness Studies and is a massive stan for the scholar Sara Ahmed. Mei Lin is currently wrapping up his Honours in Bachelor of Fine Arts (Studio). 

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https://mei-lin-meyers.com.au/
Cluster/Clutter (2025)oil, acrylic and gesso on unstretched canvas and calico, fruit bag net, collaged paper on wood, glass bowl, metal fixtures, glazed ceramic, plastic containers and polyester fill
dimensions variable 
soft sculpture 80 x 30 cm, unstretched canvas 280 x 120 cm, wooden collage shelf 70 x 60 cm and containers 50 x 50 cm

Cluster/Clutter is a series of sculptural paintings that explore the dizzying affect(s) of brain fog, disassociation, and disconnection. Describing his experience of disorientation as ‘feeling like a fruit bag’, Mei Lin encapsulates the non-linearity, modularity and goofiness of being out of it. 

Through assembling and retrofitting materials, Meyers embraces, juggles, holds and offers citrus fruits, hands of ginger and pedestal fans as kin. This work maps other ways of being in time and space, embracing non-normative ways of dancing and stimming through persistent moments of wooziness.