Megan Cope discusses her work Foundations II, inour current exhibition Material Politics, which features artists who use everyday materials and approaches to explore issues of ecology, inequality, surveillance, and sovereignty. In Foundations II, she brings together oyster shells, a core material used to form middens on the artist’s country, North Stradbroke Island, and cement, the material being extracted from that land to form other foundations elsewhere.
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Megan Cope is a Quandamooka woman from North Stradbroke Island. Her works have been shown at Parasite, Hong Kong; City Gallery Wellington; Institute of Modern Art, Meanjin/Brisbane, and Artspace, Gadigal/Sydney. In 2017, a major work was commissioned for The National in Gadigal/Sydney and is currently on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Cope is a member of the Aboriginal art collective proppaNOW.
