Moving Image, Digital Materiality & the Uncanny

I'm a New Zealand-born artist currently based in Cambridge, UK. My path to the moving image was a slow-burn transition from a BA in History at Auckland University to an MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins, a journey that took me from social services into a permanent obsession with the "weird and eerie" potential of the screen.

I began building websites in 2001, at a time when the web was still experimental and largely hand-built. That early experience of making things from scratch before social platforms and templates made the web "smooth" informs how I work now. I treat the screen as a tactile, material surface, embracing its glitches, loops, and liminal states as a way to interrogate our digital identity.

My practice lives in the gap between the alluring and the unsettling. Whether I'm projecting weird fur onto the lift doors of an abandoned H&M or remixing Warhol's photobooths into staccato animations, I'm looking for a "push-pull" effect. I like using the glossy language of advertising and corporate surrealism to pull viewers in, only to confront them with the hauntological ghosts that linger in our technology.

Digital Art, World‑Building & Immersive Projects

A massive part of my creative life is Mrs Fubbs' Parlour, a long-term collaboration focused on building immersive, surreal worlds. This sits alongside my history of "art happenings" archived at The Society of Xtras, and my ongoing digital collage experiments at xsif.com.

I've always preferred to work from the ground up, hand-building my websites and digital environments rather than relying on templates. Technically, I've traded ActionScript for Vanilla JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas, using these raw tools to dissect the high-sheen rot of modern icons and fast fashion.

My work has been shown at national and international galleries and festivals, including:

• Cambridge Junction, Cambridge
• Temporary Contemporary, London
• /Seconds issue 9, London
• The Big Chill, Bristol
• Elektronentoto, Düsseldorf
• The Kitchen Gallery, Liverpool
• Cinesonika 2, Vancouver
• Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed