Current - APW Gallery Exhibition

MEGAN COPE
1888: Place of Oyster Rocks

 22 August - 24 October 2026

Australian Print Workshop is proud to present an exhibition of new original prints by Megan Cope, a multidisciplinary artist and Quandamooka woman from the Moreton Bay region of Southeast Queensland.

Megan's artist-in-residency at APW earlier this year, supported by a long-standing APW Philanthropic donor, enabled her to collaborate with APW printers to produce a powerful suite of original lithographic prints depicting the ecosystems, waterways, oyster beds and middens of Minjerribah / North Stradbroke Island.

Continuing to illustrate her Ancestral Country, Megan Cope’s new prints are a conceptual documentation the oyster reefs in Quandamooka Sea Country. For the work Kinyingarra Guwinyanba (which means ‘place of oyster rocks’ in Jandai & Gowar language), Cope takes the birds-eye perspective, resisting the horizon line to transform our understandings of place and time. Midden Study on the other hand references her continued storytelling through her site-specific installations. Middens are mounds of shellfish shells piled up over millennia to create an architectural form, indicating human inhabitation.

Megan continues to pursue her passion for printmaking at Australian Print Workshop and we are delighted to debut this new suite of wonderful original prints in the APW Gallery. The exhibition is on now and continues until Saturday 24 October.

APW Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm.

Australian Print Workshop Gallery
210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065
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