Richard Meaghan was born in Liverpool and trained at Staffordshire University where he studied Painting and Fine Art. MA Liverpool School of Art.
On graduating, Meaghan was awarded a travel grant to study Renaissance Art in Italy. The resulting work was awarded first prize in the Sefton Open, followed shortly with his first solo Public exhibition at the Atkinson Art gallery, Southport.

Meaghan was chosen as one of three emerging artists to exhibit alongside Turner art Prize winners Chris Ofili and Keith Tyson in ‘Exposed- Art and Culture in England’s North West’. He has future exhibitions planned for Liverpool, London, Copenhagen, Denmark and Hamburg and Berlin, Germany.

From 2008 Meaghan has concentrated on curatorial collaborations. With Manchester based artist David Hancock: Le Petit Paysage (Liverpool Biennial 2004), Jerusalem (Dean Clough Galleries 2006), I’ll be Your Mirror (Gallery Primo Alonso, London 2007). With Liverpool based artist Andrew Foulds: Kapellmeister pulls a doozy (London and Berlin 2008/9), One can often be thwarted by some antidisestablishmentarianism (Gallery Primo Alonso, London 2008/9). And with Danish artist Rene Holm at galerie bn24, Hamburg, Germany, galleri Slugen and galerie Wolfsen, Denmark (2008).