Megan Symon

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Megan’s practice has developed through international recognition, with works exhibited and collected across borders, establishing a visual language that speaks beyond place while remaining grounded in lived experience.

Working internationally has shaped her understanding of how memory, landscape and emotion translate across different audiences, allowing the work to hold both personal and universal meaning at once.

In more recent work made for the New Zealand market, she has been focusing on The Lonely Swing series. These works sit within familiar rural and coastal spaces, where the presence of a single swing becomes a quiet anchor in the landscape. It is both object and symbol, suggesting absence, stillness and the trace of movement that once was.

The swing becomes a stand-in for childhood itself: for summers that feel endless, for places we return to only in memory, and for the versions of ourselves left behind as we grow older. There is a gentle tension between joy and solitude, between play and reflection.

Ultimately, these works explore how landscapes hold emotional residue. The empty swing is not only about what is missing, but about what remains – echoes of childhood, suspended in time like light at the end of a long summer day.