Summer Picnic
Meg O'Shea
Meg O’Shea’s style is whimsical, surreal and deeply relatable. The experience of catching up with friends, something that was wholly out of reach for so long during various lockdowns, remains an issue of deep anxiety in the era of Delta and Omicron. Even now, public engagements are punctuated with intermittent taking of the rapid antigen tests (RAT) many of us are now intimately familiar with.
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