Megan Hales is an Australian artist based in Sydney. Her oil paintings explore the increasingly close and tense relationship between the natural and the urban, allowing organic elements to erupt into everyday scenes with a delightfully unexpected touch of chaos. Drawing on her background in large scale sign painting, she employs a hyperrealist technique to construct images rich in detail, cinematic echoes and an almost carnivalesque energy.

Her work has been shown in Australia, Shanghai and Madrid, consolidating a pictorial voice that celebrates the vitality of the everyday and the friction between landscape, city and visual fantasy.