Megan Evans is a

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based visual artist known for her works about Australian colonisation. She graduated from

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with a PhD in 2003. Evans describes herself as an

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artist. Her work is held in a number of collections, including the

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and the Art Gallery of Ballarat. She won the Footscray Art Prize in 2019 for her work, ''PARLOUR''.

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Official siteNorthcote Koori Mural Project, Museum VictoriaMegan Evans, Owning Her Colonial Past
Living people 21st-century Australian women artists 21st-century Australian artists Artists from Melbourne Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-artist-stub