Born in Los Angeles, Meranda Walden is a self taught artist whose varied work explores the stark contrast of strength and raw sexual power, against the physical and psychological fragility underpinning many women’s lives. Themes of sexuality, power and cyclical changes, run deep in her work.
Meranda is trained as an actor and has appeared in such films as Catch Me If You Can and Red Dragon. She was associate producer and animator on the internet cartoon Alien Dune Babies and in 2007 directed and produced two short films of her own; Independence and What We Do. Her wide-ranging creative impulses have led her to an interdisciplinary and multi-media approach to art-making; utilizing traditional mediums like pencil, chalk and oil as well as film, photography and performance.
Spacial Reconstructions: Mother Board Project is Meranda’s first full scale installation work and features solder relief sculptures created out of crushed circuit boards. Displayed within a simultaneously growing and decaying environment, the mother boards function almost as cult objects of fertility and regeneration. Throughout the installation, the ancient parallel between women and “mother nature” is given a contemporary treatment. The environmental impacts of humanity on the planet are seen as domestic violence, cosmetic surgery and fertility treatments. Artificial and organic, technology and nature; these elements merge together with Meranda’s personal narrative to create a work of profound depth.
