About this episode
Send a text We spoke with artist Meagan Jacobs about her life and work in Ampilatwatja, exploring the rhythms of daily creativity on Country and the layered complexities of living in such a remote desert community. Meagan Jacobs is an Australian landscape painter whose practice is deeply shaped by years spent living and working in remote Aboriginal communities. Born in Manly and now based in Ampilatwatja (Alyawarre Country), her work reflects a profound, lived relationship with Country and the desert environment. Her paintings are known for their subtle, distilled colour palettes, interlocking forms, and meditative expansiveness. Jacobs describes her process as an act of compression—capturing the vastness of desert horizons within the intimate frame of a canvas. Her work bridges Western and Indigenous landscape traditions, informed by her long-term involvement with remote art centres.Meagan Jacobs is represented by Defiance Gallery in Sydney, where she has held multiple exhibitions, including North of Capricorn (2025). Her work is regularly featured in both solo and group shows across Australia. Jacobs has spent significant time working within remote Aboriginal art communities, including as Art Centre Manager for Artists of Ampilatwatja. This on?Country engagement has profoundly influenced her visual language, grounding her practice in lived experience, cultural exchange, and daily immersion in desert landscapes.
