Megan Puls is a studio potter whose path traces the quiet edges of landscape- first the lush green gallery’s pressed against forest, and now the open, breathing expanse of the sea.
Her newest body of work is a meditation on the coastal world’s that surround her home on the eastern rim of South East Queensland.
Moved by the shifting weather of the shoreline – the tides pull, the winds rearranging hand, the secret life of sand and rock- Megan carries these impressions into porcelain and clay. Through touch and rhythm, she shapes what the land/ocean whispers, translating place into form with a sensitivity honed over decades
Her practice is a continual conversation with earth and ocean, held, transformed, and offered back to us with grace ENJOY WHAT I ENJOY CREATING.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Wentworth Gallery Queens Wharf Brisbane
2022 Tweed Regional Gallery – exhibition – Boyde Gallery “HABITAT”
2022 Goondiwindi Regional Gallery
2021 Gladson Regional Gallery –
2020 Tweed Regional Gallery
Gold Coast Art Gallery
Border Art Award – Runner Up
2020 Pre-selected Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Art Award
2018 Muswellbrook Art Award – Ceramic winner
2017 ‘Mangrove” Solo Exhibition 19 Karen Gallery Gold Coast
2017 “All Lands Omnus-Terra” Gallery 114 Portland USA
2016 Invited – one of six Australian Ceramic Artists to Exhibit NCECA USA
2016 Artisan Gallery Brisbane “Objects of Desire” Travelling
2015 Pre-selected Clunes Ceramic Award
2010 Landline Leadlines, Cooloola Regional Gallery, Gympie
2008 Salute, Fusions Gallery, curated by Dr Janet Mansfield, Brisbane (preselected)
2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019
Ignition, Sunshine Coast Art Award (preselected)
1998, 2002, 2008, 2016, 2018
Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery Art Prize (preselected)
2005, 2007, 2014
Alice Craft Acquisition, Alice Springs (preselected)
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Outback Regional Gallery, Winton (preselected)
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2016
Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award (preselected)
2003 Gold Coast Conrad Jupiters Art Award (preselected)
2000, 2002 Warwick Regional Art Gallery (preselected)1998 City Council Gallery, Noumea
1998 The Toowoomba Biennial Acquisitive Award and Exhibition (preselected)
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, ACQUISITIONS
2018 The Star Casino commission 32 pieces (VIP rooms} sculptural piece (foyer)
Acquired “Blue Moon” Professor Patrice Mwipatsyi
Kunura-San, Potter, 6th Generation, Japan, Shino Bowl
Singapore Private Collector, Shino Bowl
Laerkesen, Denmark, Copper Red Platter
Maroochy Shire Council, Maroochydore, Acquisition, Bronze Vessel in Form
Pan Macmillan Australia, Aboriginal Sculptures
Toowoomba Grammar Boys School, Deep Forest Diva and Vessel in Form
Gold Coast Potters Association, Nail of the Moon and Large Shino Platter
Dr Janet Mansfield, Billy Tea
Trinity Lutheran Award Of Excellence, Acquisition 2000; Vessel in Form, Acquisition 2007;
Southern Ice
2012 Back to Back Gallery Newcastle, acquisition
2012 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, Acquisition
2013 The Medalta International Cup Award, Canada. Acquisition
2013 CEO Telstra
2013 Clunes Major Sponsor
2013 Jan Guy MVA[Sydney] GradDipVisArts[SCA] University Sydney
2015 Acquired Gold Coast City Art Gallery
2015 Acquired Telstra
2015 Ceramic Arts QLD Siliceous Award Judge Damon Moon
2016 Southern Downs Regional Gallery Stanthorpe
2017 Private collection CEO Telstra
2017 Commission THE Star Casino -Gold Coast Australia [three floors 32 aguired 1 sculpture]
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2019 Alice Art Award
2017 Art Craft Design Award of Excellence Germany
2014 2015 2016
The Medalta International-Award Canada
2013 The Medalta International Cup Award Canada
2013, 2012, 2010, 2007, 2002,1999, 1998, 2016, 2018
Winner Gold Coast Potters
2013 Pre-selected Clunes Ceramic Award
2004 International Ceramic Art Award, “The Josephine Ulrick Ceramic Award”
2008 Outback Regional Gallery, Waltzing Matilda Art Award
2012, Port Hacking Potters Group, Certificate of Merit2001, 2004, Capricorn Coast Art Festival
2013, 2012, 1999
Trinity Lutheran Award Of Excellence
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
2006 Ignition Art Award of Excellence, Sunshine Coast
2006 Stanthorpe Arts Festival, Most Outstanding Work
Dʼarcy Doyle Art Award, Sculpture
Cairns Regional Gallery, Award 5
2004, 1998 Caloundra Art Festival
2012 Pride of Workmanship, Rotary Club Gold Coast
Reviewed in both Pottery Australia, Craft Arts International no 85 and Ceramic Technical
magazine.
2001 – Started Teaching, Gold Coast Potters Association to 2016