Regional Wrap: Marton building turns into an ‘unsettling immersive’ sculpture

In 2021 artist Isabella Loudon returned to her family home in the town of Marton Tutaenui in the lower North Island to recover from glandular fever. Loudon has since stayed on, making the most of a vacant commercial building owned by her parents as studio space. The building is due to be demolished, so she’s been busy turning it into one giant installation project to create what is being dubbed an “unsettling, immersive sculpture”.