Megan Cope
Megan Cope is a Hi-Viz 2021 presenting artist.
Megan Cope is a Quandamooka woman (North Stradbroke Island in South East Queensland). Her site-specific sculptural installations, video work and paintings investigate issues relating to identity, the environment and mapping practices.
Cope’s work often resists prescribed notions of Aboriginality, and examines psychogeographies that challenge the grand narrative of ‘Australia’ and our sense of time and ownership in a settler colonial state. These explorations result in various material outcomes.
Cope’s work has featured in several notable exhibitions, including the NGV Triennial 2020, 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres at the Art Gallery of South Australia, The National (2017) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial (2017) at the National Gallery of Australia and more. She has held solo exhibitions at the Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, This Is No Fantasy, Melbourne, Fehily Contemporary, Melbourne and Spiro Grace Art Rooms, Brisbane. In 2017-19 Cope was the Official Australian War Artist.
Cope’s work is held in several collections including National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery |Gallery of Modern Art, National Gallery Australia, Art Gallery Western Australia, Melbourne Museum, Musées de la Civilisation: Canada. Public art commissions include After the Flood at James Cook University, Weelam Ngalut (our place) at Monash University, Melbourne Museum and You Are, Here Now at the Australian Catholic University.
Megan Cope is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW. She is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.