Zimbabwe born, Meryl Winter is a contemporary visual artist now based in New Zealand.  Her artistic discipline centres on Sculpture and Printmaking, with a practice that incorporates clay and other materials to produce small-scale three-dimensional and two-dimensional works. Winter is best known for her distinctive anthropomorphic forms including evocative sculptural narratives that probe instinct, vulnerability, and the primal dimensions of human experience.

Winter’s practice is characterised by an investigation into the origins of fight, flight, and fawn responses governed by the amygdala or reptilian brain. Through the use of symbolic and metaphorical 3D forms, she translates these neurological and emotional stimuli into visual images that reflect instinctual behaviour and survival mechanisms. Her work is marked by a tension between fragility and resilience, employing both androgynous and anthropomorphic forms to explore the origins of fear, adaptation, and emotional memory within the human condition.

Meryl Winter has exhibited with the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts (Wellington), Hastings City Gallery (Hawkes Bay), CAN (Creative Arts Napier), Tairawhiti Museum (Gisborne), Hutt Art Society (Lower Hutt, Wellington) Through these exhibitions and ongoing participation, Winter has established a consistent presence within New Zealand’s contemporary art landscape, contributing a sculptural practice that is both conceptually rigorous and visually compelling.