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Claus Lucas, Three Studies (2024)
Featured essay
shards from a broken mirror
shards from a broken mirror
Matthew Whiteman mines chance and the unconscious in Claus Lucas' Three Studies (2024), in the first of the Masons Screen Summer Writing Commissions for 2025.
Recently added works

A Long Distance Relationship (Parts 1 to 3) (2017)
A Long Distance Relationship is a year-long video project that attempts to make sense of the emotional and physical distance between the past, present, and the future.

The light between two points (2018)
The Sydney-based artist and their mother in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland each film the day’s sunset from their respective homes, as a way to bridge the distance between them.

The Ocean is a Place (2019)
The Ocean is a Place explores the complexities of history—whether real or imagined, and the layers of trauma that can be passed down through generations.
Writing & podcast

Dancing to Mason's Ballad
Dancing to Mason's Ballad
Kat Rowan reflects on performance, community, and belonging in Wesley John Fourie's Mason's Ballad (2024), in the second of the Masons Screen Summer Writing Commissions for 2025.

To cut, stitch, and weave
To cut, stitch, and weave
Thomasin Sleigh stitches material, memory, and meaning in Interlaced: Animation and Textiles at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

Mapping Rematriation with Pūrākau: seeing Indigenous futures through whakawātea and noa
Mapping Rematriation with Pūrākau: seeing Indigenous futures through whakawātea and noa
In the first of three essays, CIRCUIT'S Kaitiaki Kiriata, artist and curator Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka explores the guiding mātauranga of Rematriation, a programme of moving image works by contemporary Māori artists.
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CIRCUIT Artist Survey 2025: Results
Ngā mihi nui to all the artists who responded to our recent Artist Survey. Read on to learn more about the feedback we received