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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.
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'
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.