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.
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” ☀️
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our online workshops in April, September, and November.
We are inviting expressions of interest to attend our two-day workshops in Nicosia, Cyprus and Uppsala, Sweden.
We delivered the first of three Urban Surfaces Research Network workshops in Melbourne with 18 brilliant participants.
A photo of me leading a walking tour has recently been featured in University of Melbourne's poster campaign for the Being Human Festival - which is all very meta, given that street posters have been one of my main research subjects in the past few years.
We are resuming our Urban Visual Dialogues event series with two presentations by my collaborators-friends-visiting PhDs, Tom Ward and Cecilia Brazioli. Cecilia and Tom are in Melbourne for 3 months and this is their main public-facing seminar.
