Join us for a night of incredible insight and exploration of the arts with the second guest of our 2025 ‘Making of’ series; One of Australia's leading artists - Megan Cope.

Through this platform we invite celebrated arts professionals and artists to share their early career explorations, as well as the significant opportunities, processes and decisions that've nurtured their growth in the industry.

Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Moreton Bay/Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island). Her site-specific sculptural installations, paintings, and video works investigate issues relating to colonial histories, the environment, and mapping practices. Her work often resists prescribed notions of Aboriginality and examines psychogeographies that challenge the grand narrative of ‘Australia’ and our sense of time and ownership in a settler-colonial state.

Her solo exhibitions include Whispers, Sydney Opera House (2023); Fractures and Frequencies, UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2021); The Black Napoleon, Australian Print Workshop, Naarm/Melbourne (2019); and The Blaktism, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2015). Her numerous group exhibitions include Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry, Sharjah; Hawai’i Triennial 25: Aloha Nō, Honolulu (2025); Soils, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2024); proppaNOW: There Goes the Neighbourhood!, Vera List Centre, New York City (2023); Busan Biennale 2022: We, On The Rising Wave, Busan; Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne; and Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres, Art Gallery of South Australia, Tarntanya/Adelaide (2020).

Her works are held in numerous collections, including the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Naarm/Melbourne; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane; National Gallery Australia, Kamberri/Canberra; Newcastle Art Gallery, Muluubinba/Newcastle; and Musée de la civilisation, Quebec.

She is a member of Aboriginal artist collective proppaNOW, recipients of the 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Arts and Social Justice. In 2024, she received the Creative Australia Award for Emerging and Experimental Arts and in 2017–19, she was the official Australian War Artist, commissioned by the Australian War Memorial. She is represented by Milani Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane.

WHEN: Thursday 24 July | 6:00PM - 7:00PM⁠

WHERE: Griffith University Art Museum

FREE | ALL WELCOME | BAR SERVICE FROM 5:30PM

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Megan Cope on Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island), Quandamooka Country, 2020. Image courtesy the artist and Milani Gallery, Meanjin/Brisbane. Photo: Rhett Hammerton.

The 2025 'Making of' series is presented in partnership between Outer Space and the Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM).⁠