Phyllis Meredith is a visual artist working across cyanotype, photography, textiles, and handmade forms. Her work is centered on the natural world and on the ways memory, place, and time can be carried through materials.
Using plants, sunlight, photographic processes, thread, paper, and found natural forms, Meredith creates work that moves between photography and object-making. Her cyanotypes often begin with direct contact between botanical material and sensitized paper, allowing light, weather, chemistry, and chance to shape the image. These works may then be cut, woven, stitched, layered, or assembled into larger compositions.
Her work grows from close observation of landscape and seasonal change. Winter branches, summer leaves, spring flowers, water, weather, and light become both subject and material. Rather than simply recording the natural world, Meredith is interested in what remains of a particular place or moment after it has passed.
Her photographic series HumanNature extends this interest through in-camera double exposures that merge the human figure with landscape, bringing body, place, and environment into the same image.
Across media, Meredith is drawn to processes that retain evidence of touch and transformation. The unpredictability of cyanotype, the physicality of stitching and weaving, and the layering of photographic images allow the work to develop through both deliberate choices and unexpected results.
Meredith’s work has been exhibited at the New Britain Museum of American Art and in exhibitions in Boston, Brooklyn, and Paris. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Smithsonian Magazine.
She lives and works in Massachusetts.