Palimpsest | May 1, 2026 – June 27, 2026

Key Dates:
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1 | 5:30 – 7pm
Artist Talk: Thursday, May 7 | 5:30 – 7pm

Family Workshop (2-part series): Clay Sculpture: Saturdays: May 9 and June 6 | 10am – 12:30pmPalimpsest presents a body of work shaped by a life lived between Bermuda and Australia. It is interpreted as a ‘scraping back’, revealing a complex layering and erasure of materiality. Embedded in each painting is the passage of time, markers of lived experience, personal history, destruction and formation. As each artwork reveals itself through the slow process of gradually applying and removing paint, the artworks bear witness to the multiplicity of self.

Artist Statement

Growing up in Bermuda and now residing in Australia, I’ve become more interested in the psychological and emotional residue of place than the place itself. Each painting becomes an exploration of memory, an unravelling of time, space and identity. I’m searching for that indiscernible quality or impact that holds our attention momentarily, gives us pause from our own thoughts and life to reflect.

It is through this deeper contemplation that I have come to appreciate where home truly resides.

Being able to showcase my work in Bermuda after building a career in Australia over the past eight years is a significant landmark for me. My time living off the island has allowed me to interrogate the landscape and history of Bermuda from a lens of objectivity, integrating my own Australasian perspective. I look forward to sharing a uniquely contemporary take on Bermuda and its landscape and people.

– Meg Walters

Photo by Justin Aaron

Artist Bio: Meg Walters is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist from Bermuda who now lives and works in Newcastle, NSW (Mulubinba). She has been a finalist in The Glover Prize, The Portia Geach Memorial Art Award, The Fisher Ghost Art Prize, The Hawkesbury Art Prize and she will be a participating in the 2026 Bundanon Residency. She has held ten solo shows and her works are held in private and public collections in Australia and internationally.

Walters received her Foundation Diploma in Fine Art from Chelsea College in London followed by a Bachelor of Arts (Illustration) from Newcastle University, Australia. More recently, she continued her studies at Byron School of Arts in Northern NSW before returning to Newcastle where she now lives and works with her partner and two children.