ArtNomadix MeggaYarnz - Meggan

I’m Meggan

An Australian artist of many mediums, mainly textile these days. I’m a Beanieologist- a maker of Beanies (warm wooly hats),using both Crochet and Needle-felting.

I regularly source my yarns from my local Opportunity Shops (Thrift shops) being inspired by the colourful yarn available that day. Needlefelting beanies, and other wearable art pieces that are worked onto old woollen blankets.

My creations are inspired by the natural environment around me, the vibrant colours of my sub-tropical home. I paint the landscapes with fibre and wool.

I also Sculpt using wool, and my most recent work of art has two sculpted faces mounted on upcycled foam packaging, with Needle-felted paintings from old archival photos surrounding them. (See photos)

I have been involved with the Alice Springs Beaniefest since 2003, winning awards in the annual competition. Sadly this year 2026 is the 30th Anniversary and Finale.

These forms of textile art have enabled me to continue to be creative whilst I have endured ME/CFS and as I learn how to manage it somewhat. The Beaniefest comp always gave me great incentive each year.

Now I shall have the time to really concentrate on an even bigger Needle-felted Sculpture – a 3D Topographical Map of the Mt Warning Caldera where I live, in the Northern Rivers, NSW on the border with Queensland.

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Languages and travel:

I speak Australian English and a smidgeon of Pidgeon French after studying Mime in Paris for one year.

I lived in Singapore for 6 months when I was 10. Then after 10 months of Mime, I travelled on a Eurail pass to Switzerland and Scandinavia.

Then, all of my travel has been within Australia. Lived in Tasmania for most of a year before Paris.

Became a travelling nomadic artist in 1995 til 2007, all around Australia in a pop-top campervan and a small bus.

I still enjoy the travelling lifestyle and hope to one day be able to afford another travelling vehicle, an RV Art Studio.

Sustainability and diversity:

I am, and have always, sourced my clothes and art materials from Opp Shops, preferring to upcycle something from something used and discarded.

I have dedicated quite a bit of time to saving Native Forests in Tasmania, to Stop CSG ( Coas Sam Gas mining) here in Northern NSW and continue to be a Sitivist – an Activist Sharing and Posting Environmental Concerns on Facebook, due to my ME/CFS.