Megan Walch
PhD Candidate
Australia °1967
affiliation: University of Tasmania
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JAR BIO
Megan is a PhD Candidate in painting at the Tasmanian College of the Arts. She is a Samstag Scholar, an alumnus of the San Francisco Art Institute and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Australia: including Wilderness, curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2010, Kindle and Swag - The Samstag Effect, curated by Ross Wolfe, University of South Australia Art Museum, 2004, Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, New York, 2002, and Primavera 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Her recent work can be seen in the Skullbone Experiment curated by Catherine and Philip Wolfhagen at COFA in Sydney.
Megan has undertaken residencies in New York, Taiwan and Thailand and Tokyo.
Her research interests are in a field where European Surrealism and South East Asian pictorial tradition overlap.