Peggy ZephyR
Peggy Zephyr is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gumbaynggirr Country, Mid North Coast NSW. Rooted in her British working-class upbringing, her practice spans painting, textiles, installation and sculpture, driven by a deep engagement with material, a satirical sensibility, and a soft feminist edge.
Zephyr has exhibited widely across Australia and internationally, with her work selected for major awards including the Mosman Art Prize, the Basil Sellers Art Prize, and the National STILL Award, where she won the People’s Choice Award. She continues to build a following for her bold, conceptually layered work that often invites audience participation.
Her practice explores memory, domesticity, the female experience and popular culture, celebrating the handmade and the marginal. It is intuitive, experimental, and materially rich. Even in her painted works, elements of code, tactility and viewer interaction persist, through deceptively simple forms and an instinctive approach to making.
Zephyr works through doing: a process of immersion, repetition and curiosity. Meaning often arrives in hindsight, surfacing through the act of making as a kind of recognition.
This is art as offering, as remembering, as reckoning. It is vibrant, wryly observant, and unafraid to ask serious questions through playful means.