The Samstag Alumni
The 1995 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Mehmet Adil | Marika Borlase | Catherine Brennan | Kate Daw | Ruth Fazakerley | Susan Fereday | Matthys Gerber | Marcia Lochhead | Sue Saxon | Lucy Turner | Megan Walch
Driven by a deep faithfulness to the act and craft of painting, Megan Walch is a masterful exponent of understated humour as a tactic of engagement.
Walch's profoundly imaginative work has long hovered in the
realm of the fantastic, a mix of filmic, digital and abstract hallucinogens
owing as much to the "impossible possibilities" liberated by animated cartoonery,
as to any theme or narrative. A bundled conglomerate of "Retro-Pop-Futurist"
images - beautifully executed - at once confusing, coherent and funny, Walch's
bravura series of paintings, Ikebana, glow with an infused force of
animated shapes, splatters, smoky puffs and whip-like lines, writhing with life
and colour in a seeming void.
It is as if one could travel within these worlds, on a long journey to the
stars.
Ross Wolfe
from his essay in the exhibition catalogue for;
Kindle & Swag: The Samstag Effect
University of South Australia Art Museum, 2004
| Megan Walch Born 1967, Hobart, Tasmania |
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| 1995 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, USA |
| 1989 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania |
8 items or less 1994
oil on canvas
170 x 46.5 cm
© the artist
8 items or less (detail) 1994
oil on canvas
170 x 46.5 cm
© the artist
Extreme Ikebana series #3 2004
oil on canvas
90 x 120 cm
© the artist