Cloisters Toilet Entrance Design - Megan Brady

Join Megan Brady for an ebbing and flowing conversation about her newly commissioned mural as part of her 2023 creative residency at Te Matatiki Toi Ora The Arts Centre. Here she will discuss the re-discovery of her ancestral awa in Waitaha Canterbury and how her whakapapa informs her practice and works.

 

Artist’s Biography

Megan Brady (Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tūāhuriri, Pākehā) is an artist currently based in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Working across sculpture, installation, textile and sound she is particularly interested in the way we navigate sites - often responding to patterns and details in the environment. Selected recent exhibitions include Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 2023; At home, Te Ara Ātea, 2023; Te Hā, The Physics Room, 2023; and Paemanu: Tauraka Toi, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2021-22.