Megan Cope, After the flood 1, 2024. Acrylic and ink on military map, mounted on linen with Spotted Gum timber, 175 x 151cm. Courtesy: the artist and Bayside Gallery, Narrm/Melbourne.

Quandamooka artist Megan Cope from Moreton Bay/North Stradbroke Island considers how art and culture can heal Country and Community in her multi-disciplinary art practice. Committed to the continuation of Indigenous cultural knowledge and revitalisation of Country, Cope investigates issues relating to colonial histories, environment and mapping practices through her site-specific sculptural installations, videos, paintings and prints.

Megan Cope: Water is life brings together a selection of Cope’s recent works that weave together Indigenous and Western histories of sites to challenge our sense of time and ownership in a settler colonial state and highlight the evolving nature of living sites as psychogeographies.

Recent major public art projects have included the monumental site-specific Kinyingarra (oyster shell) installation Whispers (2023) at the Sydney Opera House, as well as her current work in the 24th Sydney Biennale Ten thousand suns. Cope has been selected for the 2025 Hawai’i Triennial ALOHA NŌ.

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