Isabella Loudon: Everything might spill. / 11 April – 4 October 2026

Isabella Loudon at Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery. April 2026.

Isabella Loudon: Everything might spill.

11 April – 4 October 2026

Isabella Loudon’s post Tylee Cottage residency exhibition Everything might spill. opens 11 April in the heritage gallery.

In December 2023, supported by the Sarjeant Gallery, Isabella Loudon opened her studio in Marton to the public in the site-specific multi-roomed installation two years | one building. This project spanned an entire two storied building, which Loudon had spent the previous two years infiltrating with her own experimental sculptural works. A resounding hit with visitors, we’re excited to see what Loudon develops in a similar vein when it comes to her site-specific installation in the Sarjeant Gallery’s heritage galleries.

For Loudon, the space a work occupies is often integral to how it is read. She makes the comparison to how her drawings occupy the space of a page – ‘chaotic with one thing talking to another’. She likes to keep things tidy and organised in the studio but the instinctive way she works leads to a certain kind of chaos.

Loudon is a 2016 Fine Arts graduate of Massey University, Wellington and since that time she has been making a name for herself as one of Aotearoa’s most intriguing sculptors. Her work has been included in large group shows in Wellington at the Dowse Art Museum, Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi and City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. Her primary medium at that time was concrete but over the last three years she has branched out into plaster, copper and discarded rubber inner tubes from cars, trucks, tractors and bikes.

Isabella Loudon was a Tylee Cottage artist in residence from July to November 2025. The Tylee Cottage artist in residence programme is generously supported by Creative New Zealand’s Toi Uru Kahikatea (Arts Development) Investment Programme.

Greg Donson

Senior curator and programmes manager