Venue
Level 1 Michie Building (9)
School of Social Science
In conjunction with the exhibition Anthropocene: Linking past and present to shape a better future, join us for a special Artist in Conversation event at UQ Anthropology Museum.
Megan Cope is a Quandamooka artist from Moreton Bay/North Stradbroke Island in South East Queensland. The artist's body of work includes site-specific sculptural installations, public art practice and paintings which investigate issues relating to colonial histories, the environment and mapping practices.
Kinyingarra Guwinyanba (2022), a key featured video work on display at the Museum, is a hand-built sculptural formation and an important living project on Country, for Country in the waters of Minjerribah and is an ongoing collaboration with her community.
Cope and Kinyingarra Guwinyanba have been featured in ABC TV’s Art Works, and “Off Country” iterations in exhibitions This language that is Every Stone, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Low Pressure, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, QLD and We, On The Rising Wave, Busan Biennale, South Korea. Megan Cope is a member of Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW and is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane.
This lunch time lecture is a free event, open to the public and held in conjunction with the exhibition Anthropocene: Linking past and present to shape a better future.
Image: Kinyingarra Guwinyanba 2022. Photographer: Cian Sanders. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery, Brisbane