Megan was in Paris on an arts residency when coronavirus hit. Now she's reimagining her project from home

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Megan was in Paris on an arts residency when coronavirus hit. Now she's reimagining her project from home
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Artist Megan Walch was just two weeks into a months-long arts residency in the heart of Paris when coronavirus took hold of France. Now back home in Tasmania, she's just one of the artists adapting her work for an unusual age.

According to co-founder and artistic director Scott Rankin,"it's brought some people who are part-time up a bit and quite a lot of us down".

"It's okay maybe with [bigger companies] to [say] 'OK, we'll take a bit of a holiday or lay people off', but if you work in very disadvantaged communities you have to be very careful with the way you treat participants in the projects," Rankin said.

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