MEGAN
FARQUHAR
TRANSITION BLUE
Captured primarily in a quiet backyard, Transition Blue unfolds in a time of shifting thresholds, where life pressed forward even as something essential was being lost. There is a rhythm here: endings that arrive beside beginnings, beauty shadowed by grief, stillness pierced by quiet dread.
The body in these images holds more than life; it holds memory, longing, and the weight of things unspoken. There had been losses before, small, unseen departures, and the fear of another lingered like a presence, unnamed but near. Breath was held. Time stretched. A cry finally broke the spell. Or so was thought.
This work carries the echo of postpartum anticipation, not just the raw physicality, but a deeper ache. A love that arrived at the same time as an absence. A joy shrouded by the invisible shape of what’s missing.
Light, spiderwebs, the folding of skin around new life, everything is touched by a soft melancholy. These images hold that paradox: the radiance of creation and the shadow it casts. Everything is temporary, yet it can feel unbearably permanent.
There may be more to come: another beginning, another risk. But the pattern is clear.
This work accepts the unpredictability of life’s fragility and its cyclic nature, on what we cannot hold for forever. It asks only this: love what is here, while it is here. Learn to live gently among the chaos, the melancholy, and the beauty of it all, and lean into the tender ache of impermanence.
Opening Reception
6—9pm Saturday 6 September
Open 6—14 September.
Continuing online until 19 September.
Artist Biography
Megan works and resides on Awabakal and Biddabah country in both Newcastle and Warners Bay.
Megan Farquhar is a Queensland-born Australian artist of Scottish and Irish descent. Her work is deeply autobiographical, shaped by a complex upbringing, and interrogates belief systems and social taboos. Megan explores themes of grief, death, and altered states of consciousness through a multidisciplinary practice that spans illustration, collage, soft sculpture, animation, sewing, and alternative photographic techniques—including pinhole, cyanotype, and ultrasound imagery.
She graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Southern Cross University in Lismore in 2010. After relocating to Newcastle in 2012, Megan spent several years immersed in performing arts before taking a long creative hiatus. In 2023, she returned to her art practice with renewed intent—to challenge, unearth, and transform through raw, unbridled work.
TRANSITION BLUE
Opening Reception
6—9pm Saturday 6 September
WEEKENDS: Open 12-4pm.
WEEKDAYS: Wed—Friday. By appointment only.
Onwards Gallery
6 Torpey Place Hamilton