About
Margaux Febvre-Richards is a contemporary visual artist and sculptor whose work explores the nuanced relationships between form, materiality, and physical space. Shifting between her roots in New Zealand and her current studio practice in Paris, France, she approaches her art as an intimate visual diary, a tangible reflection on raw human experience, vulnerability, and the fleeting nature of touch.
At the heart of Febvre-Richards’ practice is a fascination with contrast, capturing the tension between soft, fluid textiles and the unyielding rigidity of casting mediums. By manipulating everyday domestic objects like nylon hosiery, worn bedsheets, and cotton pillowcases, she stretches and traps form within thick plaster casts. These highly textural sculptures investigate the quiet, "unconscious dance" of bodies in private domains, transforming accidental fabric creases and frozen contours into permanent archives of memory, intimacy, and physical isolation.
Febvre-Richards holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Whiti o Rehua School of Art at Toi Rauwhārangi College of Creative Arts. Since completing her formal studies, her installations and sculptural works have been exhibited across both New Zealand and Europe.