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MEGAN COPE

b. 1982, Australia
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Megan Cope Biography

Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist whose sculptural installations, paintings and public art often resist prescribed notions of Aboriginality. Her works are propositions to the grand narrative of ‘Australia’ and critique settler colonial states. She is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW.

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GROUP EXHIBITION TarraWarra International 2026: System Release Tarrawarra Museum of Art 21 March–5 July 2026 Melbourne

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Megan Cope, RE FORMATION (Part I) (2016). 1800 hand-made concrete shells lodged in black mineral sand. Dimension variable. Exhibition view: 경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Seoul Museum of Art (14 December 2021–6 March 2022). Ⓒ Seoul Museum of Art. Courtesy Seoul Museum of Art. Photo: Yoonjae Kim.
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Megan Cope, RE FORMATION (Part I) (2016) (detail). 1800 hand-made concrete shells lodged in black mineral sand. Dimension variable. Exhibition view: 경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Seoul Museum of Art (14 December 2021–6 March 2022). Ⓒ Seoul Museum of Art. Courtesy Seoul Museum of Art. Photo: Yoonjae Kim.
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Left to right: Megan Cope, Currents II (2018). Courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane; Louisa Bufaderci, Looking into the land attached 1–7 (2020). Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne. Exhibition view: Slow Moving Waters, TarraWarra Biennial 2021, TarraWarra Museum of Art (27 March–11 July 2021). Courtesy TarraWarra Museum of Art. Photo: Andrew Curtis.
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Megan Cope, Untitled (Extractions II) (2020) (detail). Concrete, pacific oyster shells, abalone shell. Dimensions variable. Exhibition view: 경로를 재탐색합니다 UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, Seoul Museum of Art (14 December 2021–6 March 2022). Ⓒ Seoul Museum of Art. Courtesy Seoul Museum of Art. Photo: Yoonjae Kim.
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