Megan Walch

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.studentcentre.utas.edu.au/GraduationVerification/Default.aspx |title=Graduation Verification Service - University of Tasmania |publisher=Studentcentre.utas.edu.au |date= |accessdate=2014-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005222331/http://www.studentcentre.utas.edu.au/GraduationVerification/Default.aspx |archive-date=5 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://w3.unisa.edu.au/samstag/scholars/scholars95/walch.asp |title=Megan Walch - Samstag Scholar 1995 |publisher=W3.unisa.edu.au |date= |accessdate=2014-03-11}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.skowheganart.org/index.php?page=art-registry&art_work_selected=3322 |title=Skowhegan - art registry |publisher=Skowheganart.org |accessdate=2014-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140425121228/http://www.skowheganart.org/index.php?page=art-registry |archivedate=2014-04-25 }} In 1998 she received a grant of a studio for twelve months in The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's Space Program in Manhattan.{{cite web |url=http://sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net/artisttoartist.htm |title=Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation - Artist to Artist Exhibition |publisher=Sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net |date=2002-06-01 |accessdate=2014-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324180029/http://sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net/artisttoartist.htm |archivedate=2014-03-24 }}

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.{{cite book|last=Chiu|first=Melissa|title=Primavera 2000 : the Belinda Jackson exhibition of young artists|year=2000|publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney|location=Sydney|isbn=1875632697}}{{cite web|url=http://w3.unisa.edu.au/unisanews/2004/November/samstag.asp |title=A swag of samstagers |publisher=W3.unisa.edu.au |date=2009-09-07 |accessdate=2014-03-11}}{{cite book|last=Wolfe|first=Ross|title=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.|year=2004|publisher=University of South Australia Art Museum|location=Adelaide|isbn=0868035408}}{{cite web |url=http://sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net/artisttoartist.htm |title=Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation - Artist to Artist Exhibition |publisher=Sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net |date=2002-06-01 |accessdate=2014-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324180029/http://sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net/artisttoartist.htm |archivedate=2014-03-24 }}{{cite web|url=http://archive.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/archives_2010/wilderness_balnaves/ |title=Art Gallery of New South Wales - Archive: Wilderness: Balnaves contemporary painting |publisher=Archive.artgallery.nsw.gov.au |date= |accessdate=2014-03-11}}{{cite book|last=Tunnicliffe|first=Wayne|title=Wilderness : Balnaves contemporary painting|year=2010|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|location=[Sydney]|isbn=9781741740547}}{{cite web |url=http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/qvmag/index.php?c=236 |title=QVMAG: The Skullbone Experiment |publisher=Qvmag.tas.gov.au |accessdate=2014-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228132606/http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/qvmag/index.php?c=236 |archivedate=2014-02-28 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.tasland.org.au/newblog/the-skullbone-experiment-exhibition-opening/ |title=Tasmanian Land Conservancy :: The Skullbone Experiment exhibition opening |publisher=Tasland.org.au |date=2014-02-03 |accessdate=2014-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305233143/http://www.tasland.org.au/newblog/the-skullbone-experiment-exhibition-opening/ |archivedate=2014-03-05 }}

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.{{cite web |url=http://cms.unimelb.edu.au/asialink/our_work/arts/visual_arts/residencies/past/thailand/megan_walch |title=Asialink - Megan Walch (2004/5) |publisher=Cms.unimelb.edu.au |accessdate=2014-03-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20140327164013/http://cms.unimelb.edu.au/asialink/our_work/arts/visual_arts/residencies/past/thailand/megan_walch |archivedate=2014-03-27 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grant-decisions/reports/visual_arts/visual-arts-board-assessment-meeting-report-november-2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121216100333/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/grant-decisions/reports/visual_arts/visual-arts-board-assessment-meeting-report-november-2012 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-16 |title=Visual Arts Board Assessment Meeting Report November 2012- S&D and Presentation & Promotion |publisher=Australia Council |date=2012-08-22 |accessdate=2014-03-11 }}

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.{{cite web|url=http://soa.anu.edu.au/visintartists/megan-walsh |title=Megan Walch - School of Art - ANU |publisher=Soa.anu.edu.au |date=2013-05-01 |accessdate=2014-03-11}}{{cite web|url=http://www.utas.edu.au/tasmanian-creative-arts/summer-school/workshops/introduction-to-drawing |title=Introduction to Drawing - Tasmanian Creative Arts - University of Tasmania, Australia |publisher=Utas.edu.au |date=2012-01-11 |accessdate=2014-03-11}}{{cite web|last=Walch |first=Megan |url=https://utas.academia.edu/MeganWalch |title=Megan Walch | University of Tasmania - Academia.edu |publisher=Utas.academia.edu |date=1970-01-01 |accessdate=2014-03-11}}

Her work is represented by Bett Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania.{{cite web|url=http://www.bettgallery.com.au/artists/walch/ |title=Bett Gallery |publisher=Bett Gallery |date=2012-05-26 |accessdate=2014-03-11}}

In 2000 she was awarded the Conrad Jupiters Art Prize of the Gold Coast City Art Gallery.{{cite web|url = https://www.linkedin.com/pub/megan-walch/5/73a/299|title= Megan Walch|accessdate= 26 January 2015}}

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• [http://meganwalch.com/ Artist's page]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTQqKNLtKHI ABC 7:30 Report]
• [http://w3.unisa.edu.au/samstag/ Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140121214259/http://sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net/freestudiospace.htm The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program]
• [http://archive.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/archives_2010/wilderness_balnaves/ Wilderness - Balnaves Contemporary Painting]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140305233143/http://www.tasland.org.au/newblog/the-skullbone-experiment-exhibition-opening/ The Skullbone Experiment]
• [http://www.bettgallery.com.au/ Bett Gallery]

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