Collection: Margaret Feeney

Margaret thinks about the hijacking of the natural world and the human-built world by the modern market system. The current focus is ‘A Black Comedy in Pastels’ which plays with humans shifting from nature to culture, as if we are not a part of nature, but something apart. This project was the focus of her (anti)residency at The Arquetopia Foundation, Puebla, Mexico last year.   

Margaret shares these ideas by exhibiting, recently in Onepū – Shifting Sands / Shifting Time, with the mothermother collective at The NZ Steel Gallery, Franklin Art Centre, 2025. And also with public sculpture.

Recent work includes wild animal habitats for Sculpture On The Gulf 2022, Waiheke Island and Sculpture In The Gardens 2021, Auckland Botanic Gardens. And with Collective Invention workshops with outsider communities, to make ephemeral public installations.