What's on this weekend in Newcastle and the Hunter Region New Annual 2024, The Shuck Off, art, music, markets and more Newcastle Herald · Sep 26, 2024
Significant First Nations artwork to adorn upgraded art gallery The piece will hang in the new central atrium. Newcastle Herald · Sep 1, 2024
Giant swing in Wheeler Place for return of New Annual festival The free, wheelchair-accessible swing is 9 metres. Newcastle Herald · Aug 13, 2024
Morning Mail: the fight to succeed Daniel Andrews, Football Australia’s secret privatisation plan, Albanese’s voice hopes Prime minister tells Guardian Australia he’s still fighting for a positive vote, while Labor MPs contemplate the end of the Andrews era The Guardian - AU · Sep 26, 2023
Sydney Opera House: 85,000 oyster shells tell of site’s true story in major public artwork Quandamooka artist Megan Cope oversaw the hand-polishing, threading and mounting of the shells in a collaborative work that recognises the recent and ancient history of Bennelong Point The Guardian - AU · Sep 26, 2023
Indigenous art unites Australians in a common cause: abuse of the ocean The country’s ‘first mining boom’ drove its oyster reefs to near extinction. But a new generation of artists has a voice their ancestors never did The Guardian - UK · Jul 22, 2023
Female war artists reflect on 80 years of Australian War Memorial commissioning art from women Susan Norrie protested the invasion of Iraq in 2003. More than a decade later, she was covering the conflict as an official war artist. ABC News · Apr 23, 2023
Brisbane-based Indigenous art collective proppaNOW wins prestigious global prize Curator at school which awards Jane Lombard Prize says the artists’ work would ‘galvanise arts and social justice communities’ in New York The Guardian - AU · Oct 21, 2022
Indigenous artist Megan Cope has created an oyster reef on Quandamooka Country Celebrated Quandamooka artist Megan Cope is planting oyster poles on Country as part of an ongoing artwork that draws attention to colonisation, climate change and cultural practice. ABC News · Aug 12, 2022
‘Death is birth’: Megan Cope on creating art out of catastrophe After losing 20 years of collected material in Lismore’s floods, the Quandamooka artist reflects on the climate crisis, colonialism and catharsis The Guardian - AU · Jun 18, 2022