Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Moreton Bay/North Stradbroke Island. Her site-specific sculptural installations, video work, paintings, and public art investigate issues relating to colonial histories, environment, and mapping practices. Cope’s work often resists prescribed notions of Aboriginality, and examines the psychogeographies that challenge the grand narrative of ‘Australia’ along with our sense of time and ownership in a settler colonial state. These explorations result in various material outcomes.

Megan Cope has held solo exhibitions at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney; UNSW Galleries, School of Design and Art, Sydney; The Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne; The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney.

Cope’s work has featured in several notable international exhibitions, including There Goes The Neighbourhood! Vera List Centre, New York; We, On The Rising Wave, Busan Biennale, South Korea; Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; as well as the TarraWarra Biennial (2021), The NGV Triennial (2020), and Monster Theatres, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art (2020). Cope’s works are held in both National and International collections including The National Gallery of Victoria, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; The National Gallery Australia, Canberra; Musées de la Civilisation, Quebec; and more.

Significant public art commissions include What Becomes of the Clouds (2022) at 80 Anne Street, Brisbane; After the Flood (2020) at James Cook University, Townsville; Weelam Ngalut/Our Place (2018) at Monash University, Clayfield; Transcendence (2015) at Museum Victoria; and You Are, Here Now (2015) at the Australian Catholic University, Victoria.

Megan Cope is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW (recipient of the 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Arts and Social Justice) and is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.