Madeline Gordon Gallery

Packaged Nature

Donna Lougher

February 2026

Transience lies at the heart of my practice.
These works explore the layered nature of place.
The histories, the myths, and the tensions between the organic and the manufactured.

Fleeting moments — a feral cat in the garden, smoke billowing in the sky, or the shifting view of construction from a car window…

These spark connections between past and present, nature and industry.
Packaged Nature examines how human intervention shapes, obscures, and repackages
landscapes.

Patterns, symbols, and industrial remnants leach across our environments.

In this series, I use found motifs — like who gives a crap wrappers — to disrupt landscapes,
illuminating nature as framed, consumed, and detached

Seen through the car window, nature becomes a fleeting view — functional yet often
unnoticed, just to be consumed in transit.

Beneath a new bridge lies a history of industry and extraction. These structures reshape the
land and our perception of it

Invasive species — feral cats and boneseed — mirror industry and urban sprawl.

Birds become symbols of movement and keepers and messengers of forgotten languages.
Packaged Nature reflects on what is lost, what is manufactured, and what remains if we
intervene

What do we see?
What do we ignore?
How do we define nature?

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