Megan McKenzie is a Sydney-based artist working in ceramics. Known for her delicate handling of clay and glaze, she creates sculptural forms—curves, loops, and circular shapes—that explore the interplay of light, colour and texture. Her works often balance between simplicity and complexity, inviting quiet attention to material and form.
In her latest body of work, McKenzie offers a tactile meditation on material, space and self. Using familiar forms, she examines how we make meaning from our surroundings and how perception is shaped by lived experience. She is particularly interested in the intuitive ways we interpret and construct meaning, both individually and collectively, and how those processes reflect broader cultural patterns. Through subtle shifts in surface, refraction and hue, her works reveal how things can exist in multiple states at once—solid yet fluid, still yet full of motion.
McKenzie graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the National Art School in 2025, receiving the Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, and has exhibited in several group shows, including as a finalist in the 2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize and 2025 Gosford Art Prize.
“Megan McKenzie is an artist who challenges both herself and the materials she works with. She creates hand-built ceramic spheres, manipulating the clay, and testing its limits–unafraid, in fact welcoming, imperfections and fissures. Her glazes are processed scientifically exploring a spectrum of colour and texture. The new body of work she has produced as part of the Art Incubator grant pushes the scope of her experimentation to new heights.”
- Teresa Biet, Founder, Art Incubator