Megan Walch (born Tasmania 1967) is a contemporary Australian painter.

Biography

Walch graduated from the

University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College (University of Tasmania), Christ College, one of the unive ...

with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, 1989 and was the recipient of an

Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship The Samstag Museum of Art, also known as the Samstag Museum, was opened in October 2007 as the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, in the Hawke Building of the CityWest campus of the University of South Australia (UniSA). The museum is named in ...

in 1994. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...

, California, 1997, attending the

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 ...

in Maine in the summer of 1996. In 1998 she received a grant of a studio for twelve months in The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Space Program in Manhattan. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Australia. Exhibitions include: * ''Primavera 2000'' curated by

Melissa Chiu Melissa Chiu (born 1972) is an Australian museum director, curator and author, and the director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. She is a board member of the Association of Art Museum Directors, the American Allian ...

at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney * ''Kindle and Swag - The Samstag Effect'' curated by Ross Wolfe at the

University of South Australia The University of South Australia is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 1991, it is the successor of the former South Australian Institute of Technology. Its main campuses along North Terrace are ...

, 2004 * ''Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program'' at Ace Gallery New York, 2002 * ''Wilderness - Balnaves Contemporary Painting'' curated by Wayne Tunnicliffe at the

Art Gallery of New South Wales The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most import ...

, 2010 * ''The Skullbone Experiment: A Paradigm of Art and Nature'' curated by Catherine Wolfhagen at

QVMAG The Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery (QVMAG) is a museum located in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. It is the largest museum in Australia not located in a capital city. History The foundation stone for the original building to house the ...

and

COFA The School of Fine Arts or College of Fine Arts is the official name or part of the name of several schools of fine arts, often as an academic part of a larger university. These include: The Americas North America *Alabama School of Fin ...

, 2014. Walch’s art work has been influenced by residencies in

Australia Council for the Arts Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia. The council was announ ...

and

Asialink Asialink is a think-tank that promotes better relations between Australia and Asian economies. Asialink works alongside several philanthropic organizations to engage in civic and cultural relations that lead to business ties. History Asialink w ...

overseas studios at the

Taipei National University of the Arts The Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA; ) is a national university in Guandu, Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. History The preparatory committees to establish the school was formed on 22 October 1980. The National Institute of the A ...

in 2002,

Khon Kaen University Khon Kaen University (; KKU) is a public research university. The university was the first institution of higher education in the northeastern Thailand and remains the oldest and the most competitive university in the region. The university is a ...

in North Eastern Thailand in 2004 and Tokyo, Japan in 2014. She has taught at the Australian National University's Canberra School of Art,

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

, the

Victorian College of the Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (FFAM). It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus ...

, and the Tasmanian College of the Arts where she is a PhD candidate. Her work is represented by Bett Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania. In 2000 she was awarded the Conrad Jupiters Art Prize of the Gold Coast City Art Gallery.

References

External links

Artist's page

ABC 7:30 Report

Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship

Wilderness - Balnaves Contemporary Painting

The Skullbone Experiment

Bett Gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Walch, Megan 1967 births Living people 20th-century Australian women artists 20th-century Australian artists 21st-century Australian women artists 21st-century Australian artists Artists from Tasmania Australian women painters San Francisco Art Institute alumni University of Tasmania alumni Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni