Margaret Hogan is an contemporary Australian artist based in Bathurst (Wiradjuri Country).

Having worked in the creative industries all her life – in television and radio production, journalism, copywriting and graphic design – Margaret is now pursuing her first love, painting, as a full time practicee.

She has studied with some of Australia’s most respected art educators and painters at the National Art School in Sydney, attended workshops throughout New South Wales and camel trekked with paints in hand in the South Australian desert.

Hogan has been a finalist in the 2025 Calleen Art Prize, 2018 Kedumba Drawing Award and the 2018 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize.

Margaret in her studio

CV

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Finalist, Calleen Art Prize, Cowra
2024 Finalist, 9x5 Landscape Prize, Waverley Woollahra Art School
2021 Here, Now. Orange Regional Gallery
2020 Finalist, Fishers Ghost Art Award
2018 Finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize
2018 Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery
2018 Here, Now. Orange Regional Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Five Ways, Maunsell Wickes, Paddington
2022 Holding Stillness Rosby Gallery, Mudgee
2020 Invincible Tremain's Mill Bathurst

AWARDS
2024 Gulgong Art Prize

RESIDENCIES
2023 The Squatters Residency, Portland
2020 The Squatters Residency, Portland

Education

BACHELOR OF ARTS COMMUNICATION
(Print Journalism)
Mitchell CAE, Bathurst
1980 – 1982

SHORT COURSES | NATIONAL ART SCHOOL
Pamela Vaughan
Roger Crawford
John Bokor
Kim Spooner

SHORT COURSES | OTHER
Idris Murphy
Maryanne Wick
Jo Bertini
Fran O’Neill (NY Studio School)
Tonee Messiah
Jody Graham