FISTFULS
November 24 – December 22, 2024
Hazel Meyer, in collaboration with SOTA McMaster Participants: Matthew Bailey, Issy Cabral, Amelia Doty, Emma Eichenberg, Ardyn Gibbs, Emily Groulx, Gemima Mukendi, Eli Nolet, Riley Payne, Benjamin Ruddy, Charlie Saltzman, Pariwash Sundrani, Emily Telfer, Grace Vander Ploeg, and Luciel Zeng
A part of the 2024-2025 Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program at McMaster University School of the Arts, FISTFULS is an installation produced through a series of collaborative workshops by Hazel Meyer and student workshop participants over the course of two weeks of her residency period.
Curated by Eli Nolet and Emma Eichenberg, the 2024-25 AIR program brought together artists Anthea Black and Hazel Meyer whose practices explore the intersections of text, queer aesthetics, feminism, and the handmade through collaborative research-creation.
Documentation by Eli Nolet
Hazel Meyer works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. This work recovers the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of infrastructure, athletics, and chronic illness. Drawing on archival research, she designs immersive installations that bring various troublemakers—lesbians-feminists, incontinent-queers, gender-outlaws—into a performative space that centres desire, world-making, and sweat.
Recent presentations of the work have taken place at Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), Libby Leshgold Art Gallery (CA), Tale of a Tub (NL), Lowe Art Gallery (US), and at the BFI’s London International Film Festival (UK). In 2023 Hazel was the recipient of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award, and in 2025 she was on the Sobey Art Award longlist.
Hazel lives in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations with her frequent collaborator and partner Cait McKinney.
Recent presentations of the work have taken place at Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), Libby Leshgold Art Gallery (CA), Tale of a Tub (NL), Lowe Art Gallery (US), and at the BFI’s London International Film Festival (UK). In 2023 Hazel was the recipient of the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award, and in 2025 she was on the Sobey Art Award longlist.
Hazel lives in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaɬ Nations with her frequent collaborator and partner Cait McKinney.