MEI SWAN LIM
visual art / sound design & music composition / performance / social practice
mei_saraswati@live.com.au 0450736831 Tapping 6065
Education
2018 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Art) - Edith Cowan University
Awards and Commisions
2023 Goolagatup Contemporary Art Prize Commission for ‘Insect Opera’
2020 ‘Best of the West Prize’ for ‘Land Sale’, Heathcote Gallery Digital Art Prize
Visual art exhibitions
2024 Dampland (video and sound work) – ‘Polarity’ Perth Festival @ Fremantle Arts Centre (Walyalup/Fremantle)
2021 A Series of Interruptions (weaving) - ‘Fair Isle’ Perth Festival @ DADAA (Walyalup/Fremantle)
2020 Portal (paper cuts) - ‘Portal and Open Sea’ @ Paper Mountain (Northbridge)
2019 Wannaoke (video work) - ‘Hearsay’ @ Wanneroo Art Gallery (Wanneroo)
2019 Deep Heritage (printmaking) - ‘Deep Heritage’ City of Perth @ Cool Change Contemporary (Boorloo/Perth)
2018 Aqua Familial (installation) - ‘It is a long time since this moment’ @ Moana Project Space (Boorloo/Perth)
2018 Land Sale (weaving, sculpture) International Art Space @ Cool Change Contemporary (Boorloo/Perth)
2018 Next Life / New Life (paper cuts) - ‘Australiyaniality’ @ Janet Holmes á Court Gallery (West Perth)
2017 Khoo Sisters (video) - ARTBAR @ Museum of Contemporary Art (Eora/Sydney)
2017 In Situ Launch (photography) @ ArtLAAB (University of Western Australia)
2015 Soft Protest (weaving) @ Rear Window Contemporary (Subiaco)
Sound design & music composition
2022 Ghost Tunes (collaborative album) @ Counterflows Festival (Glasgow)
2021 Witness Stand (sound installation) @ Perth Festival (Boorloo)
2019 Everyday Superhero (sound and music) @ Fremantle Arts Centre (Walyalup)
2019 Cracked (sound and music) Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company @ Subiaco Arts Centre
2018 Margilee (sound design) @ Janet Holmes á Court Gallery (West Perth)
2018 Bureau of Meteoranxiety (sound design) @ Next Wave Festival (Naarm/Melbourne)
2018 Sky Life, Ground Life (sound installation) FLORA @ Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery (UWA)
2018 Small Voices Louder (sound design) Maybe Together Regional Tour (WA)
2017 Apocalypse Anonymous (sound and music) @The Big Anxiety Festival (Eora)
2016 Swamp Gospel (sound installation) @ Art Gallery of Western Australia
2016 Movements (sound installation) Radical Ecologies @ Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boorloo)
2016 Sleeping Beauty (sound and music) Fringe Festival @ Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boorloo)
Performance & social practice
2023 Ghost Tunes residency showcase – PS Art Space (Fremantle)
2019 5 Short Blasts - Perth Festival
2018 Land Sale - International Art Space and City of Wanneroo
2018 Museum of Water - Perth Festival
2018 Walyalup Walk - Perth Festival
2017 Swamp Clubb - Perth Festival
2016 Swamp Clubb - TRANSART: TRANSITION City of Perth
2015 Meditations on Water - Proximity Festival @ Art Gallery of Western Australia
2014 From the Rubble - Perth Theatre Company @ Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Artist Labs and Residencies
2023 Ghost Tunes Residency with Counterflows UK (Fremantle Arts Centre)
2020 Proximity Lab with DADAA and Proximity Festival (Online)
2017 Gospel Workshop with Eric Dozier (US) @ Festival of Voices, (Nipaluna/Hobart)
2016 Poetics of the Senses with Teatros De Los Sentidos (EU) @ Melbourne Festival (Naarm)
2015 Proximity Lab with Helen Cole (UK) @ Art Gallery of Western Australia
As Mei Saraswati (vocalist & electronic musician)
Solo releases
2021 Inner Escapes (EP) ‘RTR FM feature album’
2017 Sky and Below (EP)
2017 Hyperdiversity (LP)
2016 Devotions (EP)
2014 Small Tunas of the Swan Coastal Plain (EP)
2013 Hypermeditations (LP)
2010 Palm to Palm (EP)
Selected performances
2017 Camp Doogs (WA)
2015 Fron Voyage Festival (WA)
2015 Wave Rock Festival (WA)
2015 Camp Doogs Festival (WA)
2013 Wide Open Space Festival (Mpartnwe/Alice Springs)
2013 Oisima National Tour (SYD, MEL, PER, ADL)
Art / Sound / Music Workshops (as facilitator)
2021 Fair Isle weaving workshop Perth Festival @ DADAA (Walyalup)
2018 Creative Challenge Awesome Arts Residency @ Warralong Community
2017 Creative Challenge Awesome Arts Residency @ Warralong Community
2017 Creative Challenge Awesome Arts Residency @ Bentley Primary School
2017 Moorditj Koolangka music workshop @ Edmund Rice Centre (Girrawheen)
2017 Creative Challenge Awesome Arts Residency @ South Newman Primary & Newman SHS
2015 Sibling Music electronic music workshops Smith Family @ Balga SHS