ABOUT MEGAN
Megan Cochran is an Australian contemporary artist, born in Maryborough, QLD and based in Kingscliff on Bundjalung Country in the Northern Rivers, NSW.
She holds a Bachelor of Design and a Master of Architecture from Queensland University of Technology, and completed international studies at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble in France.
Cochran works across painting and mixed media, developing her practice through distinct bodies of work that translate the natural environment into colour-driven abstraction. Her work moves between observation and interpretation, building layered compositions that prioritise sensation, atmosphere, and material response
She has presented two solo exhibitions, Earth & Human (2022) and Paysage Transcendent (2023), and has exhibited widely in group exhibitions across Australia and internationally, including Provence, France. Her work has been commissioned for public space, including the Tweed Valley Hospital in Kingscliff, and featured in Art Edit Magazine and Tweed Living Magazine. She has also undertaken cross-disciplinary collaborations including textile design, book cover design, and fragrance partnerships, and has experience within commercial gallery contexts and national art fairs.
“I work between abstraction and landscape, using colour not to describe nature but to intensify its emotional presence - the way it impacts the mind and soul. I approach beauty as something active rather than passive - built through works that resist immediate resolution and hold attention long enough to invite reflection on the inner life of the viewer.”
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GALLERY REPRESENTATION
- Mist Gallery, Cabarita Beach, Australia
- The Toowoomba Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia
- Jumbled, Orange, Australia
SOLO EXIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS
- ‘Earth & Human’ by Megan Cochran 2022 Mist Gallery
- ‘Paysage Transcendent’ by Megan Cochran 2023 Jumbled
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
- Modern Spaces, Mist Gallery
- The Secrete Place, Jumbled
2023
- Harvest, Mist Gallery
- Women of the Tweed, Mist Gallery
- Agence PBC Vernissage, Provence, France
2022
- Style de Maison, Mist Gallery
- Charis, Mist Gallery
- Dare to Dream, Mist Gallery
- Habitat, Mist Gallery
2021
- Love Where We Live II, Mist Gallery
COMMERCIAL PROJECTS
- Commissioned artworks for the Tweed Valley Hospital, Kingscliff
PUBLICATIONS & COLLABORATIONS
- Tweed Living Magazine
- Art Edit Magazine
- Book Cover Art ‘Nicely Said’ by Emma Tabaccaru
- Rewild Co Perfume - Spring In House Artist
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Design, Queensland University Of Technology, 2013
- Master of Architecture, Queensland University Of Technology, 2014
- École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble 2010-2011