Penny Meagher

{{Short description|Australian artist (1935–1995)}}

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| name = Elma Penelope Meagher

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| birth_name = Elma Penelope Moss

| birth_date = 1935

| birth_place = Sydney, Australia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|6|5|1935|df=y}}

| death_place = Sydney, Australia

| nationality = Australian

| education = University of Sydney

| field = Painting

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| spouse = {{marriage|Roddy Meagher|1962|}}{{cite web|last1=Weinstein|first1=Richard|title=Roddy Meagher, 1932-2011|url=http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/brilliant-legal-mind-had-passion-for-art-and-teaching-20110712-1hc1u.html|website=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=29 October 2017}}

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Elma Penelope Meagher (1935 – 5 June 1995{{cite web|title=Elma Penelope MOSS|url=http://genealogy.metastudies.net/PS17/PS17_107.HTM|website=Cassirer and Cohen - draft family genealogy - Person Sheet|accessdate=29 October 2017}}), better known as Penny Meagher, was an Australian painter.

Penny Meagher was born in Sydney, and started drawing from an early age.{{cite web|title=About Penny Meagher|url=http://www.windmilltrust.org.au/about/penny-meagher|website=Windmill Trust Scholarship|accessdate=29 October 2017}} She was educated at Ascham School, Edgecliff and Frensham School, Mittagong. She studied economics at the University of Sydney. In 1952, she went on a trip to London, where she enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art. From 1960 to 1962, she studied at the East Sydney Technical College, and later did a graduate course in painting at the University of New South Wales.

In the late 1960s, Penny Meagher became a director of the Macquarie Galleries in Sydney. Her work has been exhibited only rarely and at occasional group exhibitions, this included the important STILL LIFES at David Jones Gallery in 1984.