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Website under construction, contents include completed and ongoing research projects, commercial design outputs and exhibitions.
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The City Broadcasts Itself
art direction + video
2025
Toyosu
art direction + video
Ongoing
A research project revisiting Allan Sekula's 'Tsukiji' [2001], shot at the fish market's new location, Toyosu, following its closure in 2018.
WDTRC
photography
Ongoing
Ongoing photographic research project exploring stock car and supersaloon dirt racing throughout Aotearoa
passthru
exhibition + video
2025
Enclosed by various perforated screens that recall infrastructures of control—passthru places the viewer in a space of mediation where access, visibility, and authority are negotiated. In doing so, the work challenges the implied freedoms of the road and the screen, revealing to us the infrastructures that shape the landscape and perpetuate state narratives of productivity, ownership and control.
rota
exhibition + video
2024
Exhibition to accompany completion of my DocFA thesis titled 'Trembling Cinema'
Juniper Soap Tray
design + object
2024
Soap tray inspired by confessional screens
CAN
exhibition + video
2023
Exhibition at Enjoy Contemporary Art Gallery, Wellington. Focused on the isolating and competitive nature of mass-motoring, CAN questions the way the car and camera support cults of rugged individualism and unprincipled opportunism.
For What Accumulates Within You Like Rocks
exhibition + object
2019
Bronze cast cauliflower ear, part of MFA exhibition.
Using Our Hands to Organise
design
2015
Poster for Fiona Jack's workshop at The Showroom, London.
Cataphoric Coop
design
2014
Poster and catalogue design for Tom Tuke's exhibition 'Cataphoric Coop' at Captcha, Auckland.
Cindy Tan
web + design
2014
Website design and development for jeweller Cindy Tan.