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Metamorphosis marks a sea change in Meg Walters’ lyrical engagement with place and personhood. She has long traced the geographies of the mind in those of the earth, recognising in the natural world a metaphor for memory. Rhythms of flux, of formation and dissolution, the slow accumulation of sediment, its precipitous erosion – these shape in equal measure inner and outer landscapes. Such reflections now find a more personal register in remembered places made dreamlike by distance.In painting and sculpture, Meg returns to impressions from the island of her youth, to the crystalline waters and rocky coast of Bermuda, along which she was raised. Folded into her luminous compositions are allusions to Bermudian life – the fishing that shaped her afternoons, a childhood spent in view of the ocean – and to the island’s myths and magic.The scenes she describes in oil are lambent with memory’s afterglow, and gently lamenting. That many of the coves and caves the artist recalls have all but disappeared, degraded over time by hurricanes and reclaimed by the sea, has set her memories adrift, the altered coastline a simile for her mind’s many fragments.Similarly drifting, an assemblage composed of rope and fishing line with ceramic objects – reminiscent of coral or sunken treasure transfigured in briny depths – appears as subconscious flotsam washed up onto the shore of the self.The ties that bind Meg’s recollections to the world, much like her salvaged rope, have frayed. Yet however untethered, these memories do not so much fade but are transformed – phosphorescent against the dark tide of forgetting.Lucienne Bestall, 2025
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Fishing at High Tide, Blue Hole
Oil, Oil Stick on Linen Canvas
102 x 152cm
$7,500.00
SOLD
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Halocline
Oil, Oil Stick on Linen Canvas
116 x 96cm
$5,500.00
SOLD
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Each October the Man O'War Wash Over Us
Oil, Oil Stick on Linen Canvas
116 x 96cm
$5,500.00
SOLD
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Lambent Light, Crumbling Strata
Oil, Oil Stick on Linen Canvas
106 x 96cm
$5,000.00
SOLD
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Waxing and Waning, the Tide Peels Away From the Shore
Oil, Oil Stick on Linen Canvas
106 x 96cm
$5,000.00
SOLD
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Paradise Cove
Oil and Oil Stick on Linen Canvas
40 x 30cm
$2,200.00
SOLD
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Heading Out on North Shore
Oil on Board
45 x 17cm
$1,500.00
SOLD
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Mangrove Bay After the Squall
Oil on Board
45 x 17cm
$1,500.00
SOLD
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Where The Upside Down Jellyfish Live I
Oil, Oil Pastel and Oil on Stick Linen Board
20 x 30cm
$1,200.00
SOLD
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Where The Upside Down Jellyfish Live IV
Oil, Oil Pastel and Oil Stick on Linen Board
20 x 30cm
$1,200.00
SOLD
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Where The Upside Down Jellyfish Live III
Oil, Oil Pastel and Oil Stick on Linen Board
20 x 30cm
$1,200.00
SOLD
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Where The Upside Down Jellyfish Live II
Oil, Oil Pastel and Oil Stick on Linen Board
20 x 30cm
$1,200.00
SOLD
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Cliff Jumping at Jobson's Cove
Ceramic, Slip, Glaze
26 x 26 x 5cm
$900.00
SOLD
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Metamorphosis: Meg Walters
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