Biography

Name: Meggs

Where were you when you designed your short: Working on my computer in the Everfresh studio, Melbourne. It’s a warehouse full of art, beta video covers, skateboards, motor scooters and empty longnecks.

Brief outline of what you do, art/design wise: I’m a freelance graphic designer for others and make art on walls and canvas for myself. Currently I survive from a bit of both.

When I design, I listen to: Hip Hop and Metal mostly, at the moment, Aesop Rock, Ex Vandalz, The Roots, Parkway Drive, Slayer and Chimaira.

What one thing do you like making most: A mess, I can’t seem to paint without having some of it end up on myself and everywhere else. I like making violent, energetic swipes and splatters of paint as well as painstaking clean edges and cutbacks. (Graff cutbacks not surfing ones)

What one website do you have to check every morning before you start work: The Age (newspaper) online and everfreshstudio.com

What kind of animal would you least like to be attacked by: A hungover koala.

Boardshorts should be: Mandatory for hairy old dudes and confiscate their budgie smugglers.

Back in my school days, I always liked to draw: Faces of weird creatures, monsters and bad tags.

What do you love/hate about art: I love the feeling of satisfaction and achievement, especially when others get stoked on what you’ve created. The challenges it creates and then pushing yourself to improvement. It’s also opened me up to meet a lot of cool people and have a lot of unique experiences you wont read about. Striving for your own style and originality is a love/hate challenge alone.

I hate the down feelings of struggling with a result, self doubt and comparing yourself to other artists I admire. Plus, the scenester bullshit that some of the art-world seems to carry and the subjective nature of valuing your own art and others, it can be a strange game.

Best thing about summer is: Sunshine, balmy nights, drinking outside till late, painting outside till late, wearing the same shorts all the time.

If I could create my work anywhere it would be: In an upstairs apartment/studio with polished floorboards and large windows overlooking a city with a good music and arts scene. As well as the freedom to throw paint around and make as much mess as possible.

What’s on your desktop right now: A default Mac desktop design, pdf’s from different jobs, random images I pull off the net and a jpeg flyer for my exhibition.

One way we can help out the planet is: Buy less unnecessary crap and learn to live with less. Slow down this hurried disposable society and create less waste. And get rid of them pesky black balloons.