Megan Cope

In the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, titled "Monster Theatres", Cope created an installation made of rocks, rusted steel drums, wire and huge drill bits that functions as an instrument designed to be played by musicians using modified bows and which mimics the sound of the bush stone-curlew, a native bird which is still and thriving on Minjerribah (now North Stradbroke Island), but endangered in New South Wales and Victoria.

The Gallery of Modern Art purchased Re Formation 2016-2019 in 2019, and included it in the Water exhibition (07 December 2019 – 26 April 2020).

In 2017, the Australian War Memorial commissioned Cope as official war artist (the first female Aboriginal woman in the role), to travel to the Middle East to accompany various Australian Defence Force, in order to record and interpret topics relating to Australia’s contribution to the international effort in the region. A series of works entitled "Flight or fight" was mounted on North Stradbroke Island blue gum.

In 2016–2017, Cope's work was exhibited along with that of Vincent Namatjira in the Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

She earned a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Visual Communication), at Deakin University in Victoria in 2006.

Megan Cope (born 1982) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Quandamooka people of Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah. Her site-specific sculptural installations, video work and paintings investigate issues relating to identity, the environment and mapping practices. Cope is a member of the contemporary Indigenous art collective ProppaNOW in Brisbane, but lives and works in Melbourne.

Cope was born in Brisbane in 1982, of Quandamooka heritage.