Megan Cope
Quandamooka
b. 1982, Brisbane, Australia
Lives and works in Minjerribah, North Stradbroke Island and Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Australia
Megan Cope is a Quandamooka woman from North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia. Her site-specific sculptural installations, videos, and paintings investigate issues relating to identity, the environment, and cartography. Her work resists prescribed notions of Aboriginality and examines psychogeography that challenges nationalist understandings of time and ownership in a settler-colonial state. Cope has undertaken major public art commissions for universities, businesses, and public institutions including Monash University and the Melbourne Museum. Her work is held in public collections in Australia and Canada. She has participated in major exhibitions including the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2020), The National (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2017), and the 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial (National Gallery of Australia, 2017), as well as the latest editions of the Biennale of Sydney, Sharjah Biennial, and Hawai’i Triennial.
