Noel Meek
Noel Meek is a Pākehā artist based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. He uses sound, video, and text to speculate on unseen or unimagined histories.
In Aotearoa he has worked with The Adam Art Gallery, The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Te Tuhi, Blue Oyster, Gus Fisher, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Meanwhile Gallery, and The Len Lye Foundation. Internationally he has worked with Cafe Oto, the Southbank Centre, the Edinburgh Art Festival, CRiSAP, The Wire Magazine, the Arctic University of Norway, and Liquid Architecture. His films have shown at the Wairoa Māori and BFI London Film Festivals. He has published the books Archive Fever (2023) and Homage to Annea Lockwood (2023).
Noel has delivered curatorial projects for CoCA Toi Moroki, CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image, and Stroma New Music Ensemble.
Noel Meek on CIRCUIT · 3 works
a rainbow haunts us (2026)
a rainbow haunts us is a video installation that wades into physical, familial, and political entanglements with the chemical weapon Agent Orange.
the cuckoo sings for me, for the mountain (2026)
A work that asks if humans can find common ground with Coal and move from an exploitative relationship to a collaborative one.
Rua Kōhatu | Two Stones (2024)
In Rua Kōhatu | Two Stones, musicians Jake Kīanō Skinner and Noel Meek elicit a range of sounds from stones, juxtaposed with text from the poem ‘Thoughts On A Sufi Proverb’ by Hone Tuwhare.
Writing & podcasts featuring Noel Meek
Observing Seismic Tension
Observing Seismic Tension
Bronwyn Holloway-Smith responds to the 2024 Masons Screen commissions and considers the potential contribution of public art to contemporary political discourse.
CIRCUIT projects featuring Noel Meek
Masons Screen
Masons Screen
Masons Screen is a public screen for video art in Wellington's CBD. CIRCUIT curates the screen in collaboration with the Wellington City Council.
Navigating Slowly
Navigating Slowly
Eight works by Aotearoa artists which choreograph new temporal relations with whenua, whakapapa, and our changing ecological world.