Margaret is an artist, writer, researcher and publisher whose work focuses on ‘divining’ geological and personal histories entangled in the places we call home. Her creative practice combines walking, archival research, writing and publishing in response to place. She lives and works in lutruwita/Tasmania and is co-founder of duo A Published Event (APE) with Justy Phillips. A Published Event make long-term relational artworks through shared acts of public telling, exploring chance encounter, constructed situations and the shared authorship of lived experience.
In 2024 Margaret was awarded a residency at Bundanon NSW and is currently Artist in Residence at Birchs Bay Art Farm, lutruwita/Tasmania. Previous residencies include at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Connecticut and The Unconformity residency, Queenstown, Tasmania. Margaret is currently the inaugural Creative Fellows at the State Library of Tasmania and in 2019 she was awarded the Ruth Stephan Research Fellowship at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University. Margaret has a PhD in Design from Curtin University and her artwork and publications are held in private and public collections nationally and internationally. Margaret is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University.
