Peggy Zephyr is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture and textiles. In

her first five years of practice, she has exhibited nationally and internationally, with

selections in the Mosman Art Prize, Basil Sellers Award and STILL National Art Award.


‘The first time I remember receiving real praise outside my family was when I was five, for something I’d made: a creation stitched together from egg boxes and wool. I still remember the feeling. It made me feel seen and proud of what I’d done. I think a part of me is still looking for that. I’m a show-off at heart.

Making has always been how I process the world. It helps me make sense of feelings I can’t easily name. There’s something deeply human about the relationship between the eye and the hand. Goethe said it best: to see with a feeling eye and feel with a seeing hand.

I rarely sit still, but when I do, I’ve usually got a pen and paper, a needle and thread, or something in progress. It’s where I find what we name peace or flow.

My interests arrive in intense bursts: focused, fast-moving and fuelled by curiosity. I experiment with paint, textiles and more recently, sculpture and installation. Again and again, I return to themes of memory, childhood and what it means to move through the world as a woman .

Curiosity sits at the heart of my practice, and I find real contentment exploring ideas through hands-on mess in my den.’