Meg Wright (Red Wallflower) is a semi-professional artistic photographer who ventured to Adelaide in 2012 from the Mid North Coast, New South Wales.
You can generally find her in the vicinity of derelict buildings and cemeteries or doing live gig photography and promotional photoshoots for bands such as icecocoon, IZERA, Skyhammer, and more.
She's photographed and constructed an album sleeve for Splintering Heart and photographed three consecutive album sleeves for singer/songwriter Ethan Davis. In 2020, she had the pleasure of photographing the multi-sensory Fringe performance, Floral Peroxide, by award-winning slam poet Alison Paradoxx.
From 2014 to 2018, she volunteered her photographic skills for Oxfam Shop Australia as a product photographer. Due to her light sensitivity, she almost exclusively uses continuous lighting.
You can find her work gracing the covers of the latest punk poetry anthology from Paroxysm Press — Spitting Teeth (2019), and Kerryn Tredrea's this is no ordinary rapture... (2022).
You can also find her work serving as author portraits inside books by her partner, Australian Shadows Award-winning author Matthew R. Davis. She has collaborated with him to photographically illustrate his horror short story collection, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, which was released in 2020 by Things In The Well and is available in Adelaide bookstores and online.
Later that year, she contributed artwork to Matthew's self-published, limited-edition novelette, The Haunted Heart of Ebon Eidolon.
In 2022, she shot and edited her first music video for the song Womb by EDM project Minds Untethered, featuring Sean Donleavy (Wings Of Thanatos and Syntropy) and Mitch Brackman (Dyssidia), and she has the potential to develop further in videography.
Her first magazine submission landed her image on the cover of MIDNIGHT ECHO Issue 18: CURSED, the official magazine of the Australasian Horror Writers Association, edited by J.S. Breukelaar and released just in time for Halloween in 2023.
Her first solo book cover design, The Black Beacon Book of Ghosts, edited by Cameron Trost, will be released internationally by Black Beacon Books for Halloween 2024.
She is currently studying at Centre for Creative Photography and is eager to strengthen her knowledge and abilities.
When she’s not photographing or editing, she enjoys reading books, exploring various musical or artistic interests, drinking a vast amount of tea, and spending time with her partner and her cuddly cat, Juniper.
Her images can speak for themselves.
[Bio self-portrait as printed in the book, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep by Matthew R. Davis, published by Things In The Well, 2020]
[Self-portrait, March 2021]