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Now in its fifth year, Inhabit is an ongoing public art project that reimagines vacant or underused urban spaces as sites for connection, care and creative exchange. Exploring how our ecosystems of care have evolved in Aotearoa, how they survive and morph through colonisation and migration and how we engage with care-work inside and outside of the home. 

Iteration 4; Ngakinga was a year long participatory social sculpture nurturing interconnectedness, community collaboration and regenerative care. A living laboratory for taiao, creativity and natural dyeing practices.

In 2026, Nekehanga, Iteration 5 of the Inhabit project will begin making a home between two connected sites, Daldy Street Community Gardens and Silo 6, in an area known as Waiatarau on the Tāmaki Makaurau waterfront.
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Holli McEntegart 

Tend To Tender Not, 2026

Cotton redline cloth nappy, hand dyed with black knight scabiosa flowers grown at Ngakinga (Inhabit, Iteration 4, March 2025-March 2026) and sewn with wool felt.
800x700mm 

Inhabit; Iteration 4, Ngakinga at Papa Ki Awataha, Northcote, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2025-2026

Drone footage by Petra Leary 

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Inhabit; Iteration 4, Ngakinga at Papa Ki Awataha, Northcote, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2025-2026

Photograph by Holli McEntegart 

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Inhabit; Iteration 3, Tāmaki Makaurau, 2024

Photograph by Ashley Grogan, Arts Out East

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Inhabit Postpartum, Iteration 1, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2022

Photograph by Anne Noble

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Inhabit Postpartum, Iteration 1, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, 2022

Photograph by Marakuza 

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