future tense

Unwanted plastic assemblages, costumes/performance.  Forming surreal ecosystems, exploring balance, transformation, and human–non-human entanglement.

A vivid painting of ambition and nature. Performers echoed its themes through costume and movement, reflecting human aspiration and the frog’s quiet concern.   

Painting echoes and blends human and oceanic memory and resonance, with costumes reflecting environmental fragility and precariousness.

Site-responsive installation combining natural and urban materials, exploring coexistence between organic gesture and built environment.

Assemblages merging traditional and urban materials reflect on impermanence, memory, and overlooked natural presences within modern life.

The materials gathered here create an installation that evokes a constellation of reflection and the entanglement between human presence, material decay, and imagined ecologies.

Through painting and performance, this work contemplates the delicate balance between humanity and the shadow of nuclear threat.

Thousands of red dots evoke the Japanese Sennin-bari belt, a gesture of love and protection in the face of war's sorrow.

Assemblages using uranium glass and plastics, and costume reflect on human and planetary time scales, contemplating the traces left after human intervention.

In this vibrant painting series, joyful colour conceals an undercurrent of the artist's concern for unseen futures and alternative existences.

A poignant video expressing love for a mother who worked throughout her life yet nearly invisible, connecting her to seed pods and discarded plastics.

A large-scale painting of cheerful beachgoers, surprisingly revealing a quiet man picking up plastic waste—his presence only noticeable from afar.

A community-engaged response to the cost of living crisis—reimagining Warhol’s soup cans to reflect shared hardship, quiet humour, and everyday resilience.

Knitted scarves formed a Christmas tree, later gifted to those in need. The second work—a woollen house—honoured Pacific Island communities facing rising seas.

A constellation of works exploring “mend” beyond “repair”—video, installation, and action blending care, memory, and the quiet act of restoring what’s broken.

Four artists across NZ, Japan, and the UK slowly passed one painting, layering time, thought, and touch—a shared gesture against a world of haste.