THE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE IS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
That's a wrap for our seminar series funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, with "Art, advertising, and methods of surfacing the city" hosted by Tom Ward at Uppsala University.
Our public space mark-making project returned to MPavilion this September. After a successful iteration with SURFACITY in 2025, Chris Parkinson and I were invited to bring back our fencing, boards and painting tools to University Square, for a week of artist residencies, workshops, and collaborative mark-making.
Do you dream of interviewing walls, graffiti writers, and graffiti removers? I am hiring! 📢
Join us to hear about municipal graffiti removal strategies as a form of urban art in the Philippines, and aesthetic practices inspired by buff in Melbourne.
I gave my first keynote at the Cultural Geography symposium at the University of Melbourne on 2 July 2026. The title of my paper was "Walls speak. A research agenda for urban surfaces", and I presented some of my progress in thinking about surfaces.
We hosted our second in-person Urban Surfaces Research Workshop in sunny Nicosia, Cyprus: “Making and visualising surfaces in the city” ☀️
"Urban canvases: Kampala's visual culture through posters" was an exhibition at the Makerere University Art Gallery in Kampala, Uganda, 14-18 November 2025. We displayed 141 poster-size photographs of public images from the streets of Kampala, taken over three years of field work between 2023-25.
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our online workshops in April, September, and November.
I am organising a session with Joanne Choueiri at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference, which will take place in London between 1-4 September 2026. The theme is "Geographies of concealment: Temporary Urban Barriers of Masking, Covering, and Hiding"
