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.
Exhibitions and projects include:
2023. Bottle Alley Art Market, with Babes In Arms collective. St-Leonards-on-Sea
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. 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
To discuss a project, or commission a bespoke piece:
Email – [email protected]
Instagram – @meg.tait_showpony
Studio portrait taken by Bloom&Folk Magazine
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All designs are copyright © Meg Tait, Show Pony