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, one of the university's residential colleges, first prop ...

with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, 1989 and was the recipient of an Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship in 1994. She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute, 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

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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 (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the largest university in South Australi ...

, 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, 2010 * ''The Skullbone Experiment: A Paradigm of Art and Nature'' curated by Catherine Wolfhagen at QVMAG and COFA, 2014. Walch’s art work has been influenced by residencies in Australia Council for the Arts and Asialink 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,

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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 research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university h ...

, 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. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the ...

, 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