Megan R. Fizell

I am an art historian and theorist of modern and contemporary art employing edible materials

working on the unceded lands of the Gadigal and Bidjigal peoples. I completed my PhD (Art Theory)

at UNSW Art & Design, and my research focuses on the sensory and affective experiences of food art

within broader sociocultural frameworks. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, I consider the

role of physiological and cultural forms in reactivating embedded behaviours and responses during

gustatory art encounters.

Significant curatorial projects include Sugar, Sugar (2013), which featured contemporary art made

exclusively with sugar by ten female artists, and Mouthfeel (2015-2018), an exhibition of video work

exploring synaesthetic responses in the viewer. Mouthfeel screened at MAY SPACE (Gadigal/Sydney),

Parer Place Urban Screens at QUT (Meanjin/Brisbane), Northern Centre for Contemporary Art

(Larrakia/Darwin), and Upper CVPA Gallery, University of Massachusetts (Wampanoag/Dartmouth,

MA). In 2023, I guest curated Aftertaste at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery (Cabrogal/Fairfield).

I currently hold the role of Curator, Special Collections and Exhibitions at UNSW Library, where I

collaborate on research-based exhibitions, public art commissions, publications, object-based

learning workshops, and cross-disciplinary projects. My writing has been published in exhibition

catalogues, art journals, and magazines, including Artlink, Art Monthly Australasia, and art:21,

among others.