Circuit
Featured work
Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux / Colleen Coco Collins
Radicant (2024)
Nineteenth century botanical models are transposed using 3D scanning and CAD technologies into a virtual space, and are accompanied by the words and voice of Colleen Coco Collins, who traces the stories of each plant and fungus represented.
Recently added works
Whakahokia (2025)
A beachside restoration and performance event in which participants removed invasive maram grass from the dunes of Kuku beach.
Ponc Pontio (2025)
A performance in homage to the slate mine workers of Gwynedd, Wales, who helped to found Bangor University, in which the artist carried local slate slabs up the hill to the university.
saint louis saint louis (2024)
saint louis saint louis traces the islands of Saint Louis in Paris and Saint Louis in Sénégal through the complexities of a certain aspect of French/Senegalese identity.
seuteu (2023)
Filmed across Tournon-sur-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence, and Dakar, seuteu unravels an archaeology of Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye’s matrilineal ancestry. Carried by the air, we drift in and over homes, bodies of water, landscapes, and atmospheres, contemplating the space between memory and lived experience.
Writing & podcast
Yearning for Radiance
Yearning for Radiance
Robyn Maree Pickens unpicks the archival impulse in Radicant, an exhibition by artists Miranda Bellamy and Amanda Fauteux at the Hocken Gallery.
An Image for the Signares
An Image for the Signares
Balamohan Shingade follows Yana Dombrowsky-M’Baye between two archipelagos with the same name, tracing her attempts to find the signare, a figure entangled within the complex inheritances of French colonialism in Senegal.
Comic Release: Sean Grattan
Comic Release: Sean Grattan
"If I didn't laugh, I'd cry." — a conversation between Joe Jowitt and Sean Grattan, the first episode of the CIRCUIT Cast series Comic Release.
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Pati Tyrell in Mana Moana Pōneke
This Matariki, Pati Tyrell's commission Tulouna le Lagi (2022) is included in Mana Moana Pōneke, a series of Indigenous short films projected on a water screen over Whairepo Lagoon in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington