Media Release: World Wide Webs
Celebrated artist April Phillips brings spiders, webs and the vastness of the internet to the Canberra Art Biennial in a new exhibition at Megalo Print Studio.
Megalo Print Studio presents a new exhibition of prints and installation by pioneer of digital art, April Phillips.
World Wide Webs will be on display at Megalo Print Studio from 22 October – 28 November 2026, presented in partnership with Canberra Art Biennial. The exhibition will offer audiences a sweeping manifestation of the internet from the mind of Wiradjuri-Scottish artist April Phillips, celebrated multidisciplinary artist known for weaving together digital and analogue interfaces to create immersive virtual worlds and digital installations. This exhibition presents a new series of large-scale screenprints and ceramics by Phillips, exploring the world wide web from the perspective of a network-building femme spider.
The exhibition is underpinned by Phillips’ unique artistic voice, exploring the vastness of the internet with a nod to 80s nostalgia while pointing towards our increasingly connected future. The exhibition translates Phillips’ digital world across a series of large-scale screenprints, developed closely with collaborative printer Alex Lundy. These prints revolve around a central character of the spider, playfully creating a narrative underpinned by ideas of identity and connectivity, and a sense of girl-hood becoming within the virtual interface of the web.
Central to the exhibition is a new experimental screenprint, spanning 6 meters to sit within the gallery. The monumental artwork riffs on the motif of the grid and combines Phillips’ bold graphic language with the materiality of traditional screen-printing techniques. Citing international communications, self-made websites, collective knowledges, shared links, games, archives and iterative creation, the exhibition celebrates the digital realm. The spider becomes a recurring figure within this vast network, at the same time a protective matriarch of the web and a vibration of digital possibilities that expand beyond the exhibition space.
Francis Kenna, CEO / Artistic Director (acting), Megalo Print Studio:
“We are thrilled to host this exhibition by multidisciplinary artist April Phillips as part of the Canberra Art Biennial. World Wide Webs is a bold exhibition that makes space in a male-dominated virtual landscape. The exhibition is full of joyous work, and is a true coming together printmaking and the internet, parallel technologies grounded in human connection and the communication of ideas.”
Megalo presents World Wide Webs in partnership with Canberra Art Biennial.
World Wide Webs is free to visit and on display at Megalo Print Studio from 23 October – 28 November 2026.
PROGRAMS
Opening: 5:30 – 7:30pm, Friday 23 October
Artist Floor talk: 12 – 12:30 pm, Friday 30 October | Free event, bookings here.
Artists in Conversation + Demo: 11:00 am, Saturday 21 November
IMAGES
Available here.
MEDIA ENQUIRIES
FRANCIS KENNA
CEO / Artistic Director (acting)
M. +61 423 336 098 | Ph. 02 6232 6041
Communications Officer
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About the artist
April Phillips is a Wiradjuri-Scottish woman of the Galari / Kalari peoples, living and working between Canberra and the far south coast of NSW. Her art practice is cemented in futurism, visual arts and digital technologies; as lead artist / director working across moving image, illustration and design. April’s practice combines digital outputs with analogue materials and processes including drawing, printmaking, photography ceramics and glass. April makes ambitious outcomes by leading in collaborative environments including skilled crafts people, technicians and creatives to realise ambitious projects, leading teams to do big things. April employs character design as a narrative tool to explore empathy, fun and form. Her use of vivid colour and unlikely digital processes celebrates the potential of computer art for a new world.
About Canberra Art Biennial
Canberra Art Biennial is a biennial contemporary public art festival that engages the stories and aesthetics of Canberra's designed landscape through site-specific artworks and events. The festival champions diverse and accessible approaches to public art, presenting commissioned artworks by leading Australian and international artists as well as promising emerging artists, many of whom are creating public art or working with new media, scales and sites for the first time.
April Phillips, World of Webs, 2026. Courtesy of the artist