Margaret Ackland is represented in a range of national collections including Artbank, the Holmes a Court Collection and Deakin University. She won the Portia Geach Portrait Prize in 1988 and has been four times an Archibald finalist.

She has had over 30 solo shows since 1985. Her work featured in Italian Vogue and on ABC TV's 'Compass' series. In 2012 she was included in 'Not the Way Home - 13 Artists Paint the Desert', at the National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney.

In 2016 she had a major regional solo Show 'The Watercolour News’, a large body of work reflecting on our daily newspapers at the Gippsland Regional Gallery. In 2018 she was commissioned to create a major work for the new Intercontinental Hotel in Bangladesh.

Intercontinental Hotel, Doha Bangladesh; Artbank; Christ Church St Laurence; Deakin University, Holmes a Court, Mitchell Library, Sydney; Pharmacy Guild of Australia; Phillips Fox; Scotts College; Sydney Grammar School; Trinity Grammar School; Uniting Church of Australia; University of Sydney; Willoughby Library and private collections in Australia and overseas.

2022 Art Almanac
2012 Artist Profile Magazine. Not The Way Home. Issue 18
2011 Rosemary Crumlin, The Blake Book. MacMillan. pp.193,204
2009 Author, Title, Art Monthly, October
2008 Author, Title, Sydney Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald
Author, Title, Elle Italia, Spring
Compass, ABC Television, 1 June
2007 Author, Seldom Scene, Mitchell Library
2006 Katrina Lobley, ‘Events’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 June
Sunanda Creagh, Open Gallery, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June
D.W. Thorpe, Who’s Who of Australian Visual Artists, publisher, 2nd edition
1994 Susan McCulloch, Australian Art Encyclopedia, Allen & Unwin
1990 Max Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House
1987 Dawn Mendham, The Refining Fire, Albatross Books, pp.18-25
1985 Exhibition Commentary, Art and Australia, Fine Arts Press, vol.23, no2 p.173
1993 Judi Fisher et al., A Place at the Table, JBCE, pp.47-53,84