Show Pony is the pseudonym of artist and sign-maker Meg Tait.
Inspired by a long-term fascination with words, fonts, fairgrounds (and a touch of kitsch), Show Pony creates illuminated artworks & fairground-inspired signs, often embellished with gold and fitted with lightbulbs. Alongside these are typographic prints, and painted cut-outs featuring icons of popular-culture.
Self-identifying as a ‘word clown’, Tait graduated with a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art whilst suspended from the ceiling in a horse costume, under the title ‘Well Hung’. This playful use of words has carried through into her practice as Show Pony.
Show Pony lives in St-Leonards-on-Sea with her wife and their two young sons.
Practicing member of art collective Babes In Arms.
Founding Co at Holly & Co.
Works also available East Art Gallery, London, Paxton+Glew, Brighton and Stella Dore, St-Leonards-on-Sea
Find me on Art Finder and in The Book Of Love
Exhibitions and projects include:
2024. Oxmarket Contemporary. Chichester. 10th-23rd December 2024
2024. BAAM Berlin Affordable Art Market, Germany. 27th-29th November 2024
2024. HAAM Hamburg Affordable Art Market, Germany
2024. Bottle Alley Art Market, Hastings
2024. Group show, ‘Love Letters’. Paxton+Glew, Brighton
2024. Group show, ‘All We Have Time For’. Bus Stop Studios, St-Leonards-on-Sea
2023. Group show, Winter Exhibition. Paxton+Glew, Brighton
2023. Bottle Alley Art Market, with Babes In Arms collective. St-Leonards-on-Sea
2023. Collaboration with Diana Rikasari. ‘TOGETHER’
2023. Group show ‘Pride and Joy’. Paxton+Glew, Brighton
2023. Group show ‘Carnival of colour’. Arteria, Lancaster
2023. Group show. Hastings Contemporary, Hastings
2023. Group show ‘Women of Mass Distraction’. Stella Dore Gallery, St-Leonards-on-Sea
2022-23. Group show with Babes in Arms Collective. De La War Pavillion, Bexhill
2022. Dynamite Art Fair 2.0, London
2022. Artist feature, Bloom&Folk Magazine (print)
2020. ‘Hero-piece’, commissioned by Not On The Highstreet for Youtube
2019. Commission for James Martin’s Saturday Morning Show, by ITV
2018. Group show. Dynamite Gallery, Brighton
2018. Commission by Mighty Hoopla Festival, for Guilty Pleasures
2018. Artist feature, Caboodle Magazine (print)
2017. Collaboration in print ‘a bigger splash’, with Caboodle Magazine
2017. Artist feature, She Is Fierce Magazine (print)
2017. Group show. OXO Tower, London
2016. Solo show. STAN Gallery, Margate