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 photographing in the vicinity of derelict buildings, cemeteries, metal gigs, and other strange environments. Being neurodivergent and chronically ill, she almost exclusively uses continuous lighting in her work.
She's photographed an album sleeve for Splintering Heart and 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.
You can find her work gracing the last three books from Paroxysm Press, Spitting Teeth (2019), Kerryn Tredrea's this is no ordinary rapture... (2022), and Kami's Fists of Love (2024).
You can also find her work serving as author portraits inside books by her partner, Australian Shadows Award-winning author Matthew R. Davis. She photographically illustrated his horror short story collection, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, (2020) published by Things In The Well.
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).
Her first magazine submission subsequently landed her image on the cover of MIDNIGHT ECHO Issue 18: CURSED, the magazine of the Australasian Horror Writers Association, edited by J.S. Breukelaar (2023), and was awarded the 2024 Ditmar Award for Best Artwork. She has previously won various photographic awards in the past, with her first entry placing first in 2008.
Her first solo book cover design, The Black Beacon Book of Ghosts, edited by Cameron Trost, has been released internationally by Black Beacon Books in time for Halloween 2024.
When she’s not photographing or editing, she enjoys reading, drinking tea, exploring various musical or artistic interests, and spending time with her partner and her cats, Juniper and Lexi.
Her images can speak for themselves.
Self-portrait, March 2021.