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Omni Pendant Speaker
POA
Custom omni-directional pendant speaker. Available as passive or active with bluetooth and airplay. 140 × 420 mm. Made to order.
Stainless Steel, MDF, BMR Driver, Carded Wool
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.
The City Broadcasts Itself
art direction + video
2025
Season launch video shot for Tough with CAY.ltd
Photograph from Waihi Dirt Track, an ongoing project documenting stock car and supersaloon dirt racing in Aotearoa.
Further photograph from Waihi Dirt Track, documenting stock car and supersaloon dirt racing in Aotearoa.
Waihi Dirt Track
photography
Ongoing
Ongoing photographic research project exploring stock car and supersaloon dirt racing throughout Aotearoa
Installation view of 'passthru' at Te Tuhi, built from stainless steel, galvanised pipe and chainlink fencing forming perforated screens.
Detail of the 'passthru' installation, its perforated screens of chainlink fencing and galvanised pipe recalling infrastructures of control.
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.
Installation view of 'rota', an exhibition accompanying Grant Priest's DocFA thesis 'Trembling Cinema', featuring stainless steel and mesh.
Stainless steel and mesh installation detail from the 'rota' exhibition.
Further installation view from the 'rota' exhibition accompanying the 'Trembling Cinema' thesis.
rota
exhibition + video
2024
Exhibition to accompany completion of my DocFA thesis titled 'Trembling Cinema'
Rota soap tray in sapele hardwood and black walnut, its slatted form inspired by confessional screens.
The Rota soap tray viewed from above, showing the slatted sapele hardwood and black walnut construction.
Rota Soap Tray
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Soap tray inspired by confessional screens.
Sapele Hardwood, Black Walnut
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.
Bronze cast of a cauliflower ear from the MFA exhibition 'For What Accumulates Within You Like Rocks'.
For What Accumulates Within You Like Rocks
exhibition + object
2019
Bronze cast cauliflower ear, part of MFA exhibition.
Bronze, Wax
Omni pendant speaker, a tall black column suspended from the ceiling, with a stainless steel omni-directional driver visible at its base.
Detail of the custom Omni pendant speaker, showing its stainless steel housing and omni-directional driver.
G r a n t   P r i e s t

Omni Pendant Speaker

Custom omni-directional pendant speaker. Available as passive or active with bluetooth and airplay. 140 × 420 mm. Made to order.

Omni Pendant Speaker — POA