Megan Walch

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

Biography[]

Walch graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, 1989 and was the recipient of an Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship in 1994.[1][2] She completed a Master of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute, California, 1997, attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in the summer of 1996.[3] In 1998 she received a grant of a studio for twelve months in The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Space Program in Manhattan.[4]

Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Australia. Exhibitions include:

  • Primavera 2000 curated by Melissa Chiu at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney
  • Kindle and Swag - The Samstag Effect curated by Ross Wolfe at the University of South Australia, 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.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

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 in 2002, Khon Kaen University in North Eastern Thailand in 2004 and Tokyo, Japan in 2014.[13][14] She has taught at the Australian National University's Canberra School of Art, Monash University, the Victorian College of the Arts, and the Tasmanian College of the Arts where she is a PhD candidate.[15][16][17] Her work is represented by Bett Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania.[18]

In 2000 she was awarded the Conrad Jupiters Art Prize of the Gold Coast City Art Gallery.[19]

References[]

  1. ^ "Graduation Verification Service - University of Tasmania". Studentcentre.utas.edu.au. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Megan Walch - Samstag Scholar 1995". W3.unisa.edu.au. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Skowhegan - art registry". Skowheganart.org. Archived from the original on 25 April 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  4. ^ "Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation - Artist to Artist Exhibition". Sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net. 1 June 2002. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  5. ^ Chiu, Melissa (2000). Primavera 2000 : the Belinda Jackson exhibition of young artists. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. ISBN 1875632697.
  6. ^ "A swag of samstagers". W3.unisa.edu.au. 7 September 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  7. ^ Wolfe, Ross (2004). Kindle and swag : the Samstag effect : works by selected Samstag scholars ; Kristian Burford, Nicholas Folland, Timothy Horn, Deborah Paauwe, Nike Savvas, Megan Walch, Anne Wallace : an exhibition by Ross Wolfe. Adelaide: University of South Australia Art Museum. ISBN 0868035408.
  8. ^ "Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation - Artist to Artist Exhibition". Sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net. 1 June 2002. Archived from the original on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  9. ^ "Art Gallery of New South Wales - Archive: Wilderness: Balnaves contemporary painting". Archive.artgallery.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  10. ^ Tunnicliffe, Wayne (2010). Wilderness : Balnaves contemporary painting. [Sydney]: Art Gallery of New South Wales. ISBN 9781741740547.
  11. ^ "QVMAG: The Skullbone Experiment". Qvmag.tas.gov.au. Archived from the original on 28 February 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  12. ^ "Tasmanian Land Conservancy :: The Skullbone Experiment exhibition opening". Tasland.org.au. 3 February 2014. Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  13. ^ "Asialink - Megan Walch (2004/5)". Cms.unimelb.edu.au. Archived from the original on 27 March 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  14. ^ "Visual Arts Board Assessment Meeting Report November 2012- S&D and Presentation & Promotion". Australia Council. 22 August 2012. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  15. ^ "Megan Walch - School of Art - ANU". Soa.anu.edu.au. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  16. ^ "Introduction to Drawing - Tasmanian Creative Arts - University of Tasmania, Australia". Utas.edu.au. 11 January 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  17. ^ Walch, Megan (1 January 1970). "Megan Walch | University of Tasmania - Academia.edu". Utas.academia.edu. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  18. ^ "Bett Gallery". Bett Gallery. 26 May 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2014.
  19. ^ "Megan Walch". Retrieved 26 January 2015.

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