‘for the journey’, 2025. CrossXpollinatioN 2026, Retrospective.
Meaghan Shelton
Meaghan Shelton is an Australian visual artist, writer, curator, educator, and collaborator whose transdisciplinary practice spans textile, sculpture, painting, installation, photography, and fashion. Her work reimagines domestic spaces as charged sites of memory and resistance, interrogating the representation of women and nature within art historical and cultural narratives. Drawing from her Anglo-Celtic/Australian heritage, Meaghan’s practice is grounded in the material languages of craft and domesticity, reworking traditional techniques to explore the intersections of gender, ecology, unsettled and ancestral memory.
Based on Wadawurrung Country, in Ballarat, Victoria, Meaghan is currently undertaking a PhD in Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
Recent Exhibitions:
A Glamour of Meaning - The Old Butcher Shop Gallery, 2025
A Kind of Speaking
Post Office Gallery, Federation University, 2025. Vic. AUS
14- 21 June 2025 Post Office Gallery, Federation University, Ballarat. Victoria, Australia
https://federation.edu.au/pogallery/exhibitions/past/2025-exhibitions/meaghan-shelton
Select Artworks
Font, 2025 Copper shim, recycled copper wire, copper tacks, tapestry webbing, jump rings, ply. 750mm x 600mm
Naissance, 2022-2023. Crocheted recycled copper wire. Installation view, dimensions variable- approx H 550mm x W 1000mm. Strata, Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2025
The Arboretum (raised) 2026. Meaghan Shelton. Fabric, LED, air, sonics, aromatics. Circ 22m, diam 7m.pg
Recast, 2022
Rites of Passage, gallery view
Girl with Plaits 2015, Digital image.
Ars Longa Vita Brevis
Shield Maiden, 2018. Oil on canvas. 860mm x 860mm
After Alethea Hunt, 2025 Acrylic and oil on canvas. 945mm x 945mm
In Absentia XVI, 2016. Oil on canvas. 660 x 660mm
Ars Longa Vita Brevis
when are you gonna come down, when are you going to land...? 2026. Installation- Ballarat Central Library, Ballarat Craft and Design Week, 2026.