THE RIGHT TO THE SURFACE IS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY
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"
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our two-day workshops in Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden.
