Meg Walters (b. 1985, Bermuda) is a Bermudian-Australian painter and multidisciplinary artist based in Newcastle (Mulubinba), New South Wales. Raised between Bermuda and Canada, she studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, where she received a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art in 2003, before moving to Australia and completing a Bachelor of Arts at Newcastle University in 2006. She later pursued further visual arts studies at the Byron School of Art in Northern New South Wales.
Working primarily in painting, alongside ceramics and found materials, Walters has developed a practice centred on landscape, memory, identity and psychological experience. Rather than treating landscape as direct observation, she reconstructs places through memory and sensation, producing environments that hover between actual geography and imagined space. Her experience of living between Bermuda and Australia has become particularly important to this approach: ideas of displacement, belonging, distance and the instability of “home” recur throughout her work.
Her professional trajectory has accelerated considerably over the past several years. Walters has presented solo exhibitions with Michael Reid in New South Wales and Otomys Contemporary in Melbourne, as well as institutional exhibitions including Multiverse at the Tweed Regional Gallery in 2022 and, more recently, Palimpsest at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art in 2026. The latter is particularly significant biographically, marking a return to Bermuda after approximately eight years developing her professional career in Australia.
This growing recognition has been accompanied by repeated selections for prominent Australian art prizes. In 2025, Walters was a finalist in both the Glover Prize, one of Australia’s major awards dedicated to landscape painting, and the Portia Geach Memorial Award, the long-established prize for portraiture by women artists. That same year, she was also selected as a finalist for the Hawkesbury Art Prize and the MAC yapang Art Prize. In 2024, she was a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, while in 2023 her painting Moon Shaped Pool received a Commended distinction at the Hawkesbury Art Prize. Earlier and additional selections include the Omnia Art Prize, Corner Store Landscape Prize, 9 × 5 Landscape Prize, Hunter Emerging Art Prize, Border Art Prize and Lethbridge Art Prize.
A further milestone came in 2026, when Walters was selected for the Bundanon Artist in Residence program in New South Wales. Established through the legacy of artists Arthur and Yvonne Boyd, Bundanon has become an important centre for contemporary artistic research and production in Australia, making the residency a significant step in Walters’ developing institutional profile.
Alongside these distinctions, Walters’ work has increasingly moved between the commercial gallery and institutional contexts. Her recent trajectory — from solo exhibitions and regional gallery presentations to major national prize selections, institutional exhibitions and the Bundanon residency — reflects the growing recognition of a practice that continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary landscape painting while remaining closely connected to questions of memory, place and belonging.