Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Moreton Bay/Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) in South East Queensland. Her site-specific sculptural installations, video works and paintings investigate issues relating to colonial histories, the environment and mapping practices.
The artist’s solo exhibitions include Whispers, Sydney Opera House (2023), and Fractures and Frequencies, UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2021). Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including proppaNOW: There Goes The Neighbourhood!, Vera List Center, New York (2023); We, on the Rising Wave, Busan Biennale (2022); Reclaim the Earth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); and Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Meeanjin/Brisbane (2022).
Cope is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW, which received the 2022–2024 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice. From 2017 to 2019, she was the official Australian War Artist, commissioned by the Australian War Memorial.