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Hunter Emerging Art Prize
Finalists and Winners

YEAR:

2026

Category:

Experimental

Artist Name:
Megan Farquhar
Title:
Dash & Dot
Dash & Dot
Materials:

film

Dimensions:

Resolution - 1920 x 1080

Price

3000

About the artwork:

“Dash and Dot” is a meditative work inspired by Conversations in the Womb and The Dash (Linda Ellis). The film follows Dash and Dot, twin beings who once shared a womb and continue to carry fragments of past lives, memories, and an ancestral presence that stays with Dash across lifetimes. Their bond becomes a way to explore connection, transition, and the echoes we bring with us between worlds.

The work is a quest into the unknown and the unexplainable. It imagines a dialogue between two spirits suspended in a liminal space, before birth, after death, or somewhere in between. Through their conversation, the film asks what it means to arrive, to depart, and to return.

In Western culture, death is often avoided or sanitised, creating fear, and a reluctance to acknowledge the profound experience of dying. This work seeks to reopen that conversation with gentleness and curiosity. It holds space for grief while remaining hopeful, suggesting that death may not be an ending but a return to

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