The debut solo showcase by Jeffry Feeger — and his first comprehensive solo presentation on home soil.
The ticketed cocktail and auction night, with live music through the evening, opening the exhibition. From Wednesday the collection is free to view until it closes on Monday 2 November.
Opening night is ticketed at K500 per guest, booked in advance at jeffryfeegerart.com. Places are limited.
Ticketed · Book onlineThe season closes with a final live performance and the unveiling of the audience canvas built across the week. The Sheraton Port Moresby marks its own Grand Opening during the same season — the exhibition and the hotel opening the same room to the city.
Supported by Gatherings by SheratonFeeger paints live in the room on Friday 30 October — new work made in front of visitors, in the same space the collection was born in.
Live musicians perform each evening — the pairing of paint and sound that shaped the collection and still sets its rhythm.
Visitors are invited to pick up a brush and paint into a shared canvas — the exhibition's one collective work, built by the room across the week.
This body of work marks a definitive homecoming, anchoring decades of international exploration — from the Shanghai World Exposition and Auckland to New York's SoHo — back into the cultural heart of Papua New Guinea.
It was made, not assembled. Across a 2026 residency at the Sheraton Port Moresby, thirty-six canvases were painted live before an audience — each one the featured act of a musical showcase, begun and finished inside a single evening. Nothing in that body of work was reworked in a studio afterwards; what hangs on the wall is exactly what the room watched arrive. Twelve earlier works hang alongside them, tracing the path that led there.
The imagery fuses the meticulous discipline of studio portraiture with the electric, raw vitality of urban documentation, capturing the complex human narratives of the region through textured, high-impact compositions.
The painting process is an intense negotiation between structured form and spontaneous energy, mirroring the cadence of live musical collaboration. Layers of rich pigment and energetic stroke work are built up organically, allowing the canvas to absorb the physical and rhythm-driven motion central to the artist's performance practice. This method treats the surface not merely as a flat plane but as a living archive of movement, colour, and cultural resonance.
Rooted in a two-decade-long career as a full-time independent practitioner, this collection reflects an unwavering commitment to bridging local immersion with global contemporary discourse. The intersection of live performance energy and refined studio execution produces an unyielding visual presence designed to challenge, inspire, and document the evolving identity of the nation.
The Sheraton Port Moresby hosts Sovereign Vibe for the full seven days, providing the Hotel Lobby as the exhibition venue, and is a supporting partner of both the opening and closing nights.
Sovereign Vibe runs for seven days in the Hotel Lobby of the Sheraton Port Moresby — returning the collection to the room in which most of it was painted. Live painting on Friday 30 October, live music every evening, and the audience canvas throughout.
Enquire about the collectionPress, acquisition and commission enquiries are welcome before and during the exhibition.
Jeffry Feeger is a contemporary Papua New Guinean visual artist, live-performance painter and social advocate, based in Alotau, Milne Bay Province.
Operating as a full-time professional independent artist since 2003, Feeger has established an extensive career spanning studio portraiture, raw documentation of everyday urban and market life, and dynamic live-performance painting.
He rose to international prominence in 2010 at the Shanghai World Exposition, pioneering live-performance painting through collaborations centred at the Angola Pavilion, where he also held his first-ever solo exhibition showcasing the live works he produced across the Expo site. Building on that momentum, he won first place in an artist battle — an international live-painting competition held within Shanghai City later the same year.
Marking a major career milestone, Sovereign Vibe represents Feeger's first comprehensive solo presentation on home soil in Papua New Guinea — a showcase that serves as a testament to an artist dedicated to charting the nation's cultural, historical and human journey.
Pioneered live-performance painting through collaborations centred at the pavilion, and held his first-ever solo exhibition showcasing the live works produced across the Expo site.
Won an international live-painting competition held in Shanghai later the same year.
Solo showcase, New Zealand.
Solo exhibition — Port Moresby Market Collection, Hawaiian & Pacific Collections, Hamilton Library, 1–14 November, with an artist walk-through and two live-painting performances as part of alterna APEC.
Solo showcase during his co-starring run in the theatrical production Feather at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Exhibited as part of the summit programme.
First comprehensive solo presentation on home soil in Papua New Guinea. 27 October – 2 November 2026.
Raised through the auction of his works for charitable organisations, community health initiatives, educational institutions and humanitarian causes across Papua New Guinea and abroad.
The Sovereign Vibe Collection comprises forty-eight pieces — thirty-six painted live through 2026, alongside twelve earlier works that led to them. Forty-one are available for acquisition. A first selection is shown below; the complete body of work is unveiled at the Sheraton Port Moresby from 27 October 2026.
Printed catalogues will be available on the opening night
For advance viewing, acquisition or commission enquiries, contact info@jeffryfeegerart.com
A single live painting, created on stage at the Sir Theo Foundation annual fundraiser, sold for K73,000 — the proceeds directed to the foundation's work.
Reported by Post-Courier — “Feeger live painting sells for tens of thousands at foundation event”
Feeger’s live painting at the Sir Theo Foundation annual fundraiser sold for K73,000, continuing a practice in which works made in front of an audience are auctioned on the night for charitable causes.
Read the article →A full profile by Jonathan Koh for the Weekender. Traces his path from Kerema to a career pioneering the fusion of live painting with musical performance, and records live canvas auctions reaching K200,000.
Read the article →Feeger curated Papua New Guinea’s 140-artist collection for Imago Mundi, the Luciano Benetton Collection in Treviso, Italy. His own work The Origin of Form (2015) is held in the collection.
View the collection →Reviewed by Catherine Wilson in the international contemporary art magazine of the Asia-Pacific region.
Read the review →Written by the artist. An account of his childhood in Kerema, the development of his magic realism approach, the Tautai residency in New Zealand, curating Papua New Guinea’s showcase at Shanghai Expo 2010, and the Paga Hill Art Resistance.
Read the essay →Joy Enomoto’s peer-reviewed study for the Johns Hopkins journal describes Feeger at the 2018 Melanesian Arts and Cultural Festival, arriving at the pavilion with a painting created minutes earlier on the main music stage.
Read the article →Cheerieann Wilson’s profile on his Gulf Province origins and the founding of Renbo Gallery. “Because of my experience of exhibiting overseas, I had that sense that we deserve to have our paintings up on the wall.”
Read the article →Michele Westmorland on the project that commissioned Feeger to reinterpret Caroline Mytinger’s 1920s Melanesian portraits. “Culture is fleeting; it is always running away from you.”
Read the article →Press and interview enquiries — info@jeffryfeegerart.com
Tickets
The full collection is unveiled — forty-eight pieces, drawn from twenty-one of Papua New Guinea’s twenty-two provinces. The evening carries formal remarks and the live auction of Hela II.
Every ticket goes into the draw, made on the night. The winner’s thirty-minute quick portrait is painted live by Jeffry on Friday 30 October. One ticket, one entry — your entry number is printed on your ticket.
Opening night is ticketed and capacity is limited. Register your interest and we will write to you the moment tickets are released.
Register Your InterestEvery place for Tuesday 27 October has been taken. The exhibition remains open to the public for the rest of the week, without charge.
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Sovereign Vibe is made possible by partners who believe Papua New Guinean art belongs on a world stage. Their support carries the collection from the studio floor to the Hotel Lobby of the Sheraton Port Moresby.
The Sheraton Port Moresby hosts Sovereign Vibe for the full seven days, providing the Hotel Lobby as the exhibition venue, and is a supporting partner of both the opening and closing nights.
Agile Group Limited
Website Sponsor
O2 Visuals
Media Partner
Discover PNG
Promotional Partner
Theodist Ltd
Catalog & Print Partner
TISA Insurance
Supporting Partner
To discuss partnering with the collection, contact info@jeffryfeegerart.com