MyShinyMadness Urban Gallery

About this Event

Step inside the multi award-winning urban gallery of Lisa Watkins, better known as MyShinyMadness.

For EcoFest 2026, Lisa opens her own Urban Sustainability Gallery — a rare indoor and outdoor exhibition showcasing a powerful collection of large-scale artworks made entirely from rescued and repurposed materials.

These are not small experiments. They are bold, joyful, statement works that transform overlooked waste into wonder. Colour, texture and scale collide to create an experience that is both playful and deeply considered.

Winner of the Localised Sustainability Art Award and the Waitākere Arts Top Assemblage Award, and a member of the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), Lisa’s practice sits at the forefront of contemporary sustainability-led art in Aotearoa.

Last year she exhibited at Smales Farm and the Naumi Hotel for EcoFest and World Earth Day. This year, visitors are invited into her own evolving Urban Sustainability Gallery — an intimate and immersive opportunity to encounter a substantial body of large-scale upcycled work in one place.

Whether you are a serious art lover, a curious family, or someone passionate about circular design, this exhibition offers a chance to experience joy, scale and material transformation up close.

Following a year of detailed planning, Lisa has recently secured council consent and is now actively seeking funding to realise the first sculpture in her long-term legacy project: New Zealand’s first permanent sustainable sculpture trail on public land. This exhibition forms part of that growing vision.

The exhibition runs from 22 March to 22 April.

Opening Day: Sunday 22 March
11am | 1pm | 3pm

Wednesdays and Saturdays
11am | 1pm\ 3pm 

Entry is by gold coin koha (donation on arrival).