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Megan A. Evans
Megan Evans began her creative life doing large political murals in the 1980s. She was responsible for instigating the Northcote Koorie Mural, and collaborated with Eve Glenn on Bonboniere to Barbed Wire, otherwise known as the Women’s Mural. Her career has spanned several decades and practices. Over the last ten years, she has exhibited both nationally and internationally, been published widely in books and journals and been awarded international residencies. She has work in collections in the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria University and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Her work examines the traces of early colonial history in the identity of the artist and the impact of that history as it unfolds today. Her family history goes back to the early 1800s. Originally from Scotland and Ireland, her ancestors were early colonizers. In 1983, she met and later married Indigenous artist and activist the late Les Griggs. Les was one of the Stolen Generation, a government policy of forced removal of Aboriginal children from their families that was conducted until the early 1970s. Through her relationship with Les, Megan began to understand the full impact of colonization in Australia. In her recent work, she uses Victorian objects as imagined historical observers of colonial trauma.