I've Never Had an Original Experience

First gracing Instagram in 2019, @canterburrry began as a small inside joke between a group of chronically online rural teenagers. It has since become an archival, curated blend of irony, ragebait, copypasta, trends, underground music, skateboarding, politics, glitz, SoundCloud mixes, piss-takes, making fun of DJs, poly humour, anything local, and anything skuxx. Through the creation of this niche aesthetic, Canterburrry has garnered a small cult following within Aotearoa while staying true to its roots by continuing to find increasingly unhinged Young Thug tweets that somehow top the last.

Dana Dawud makes films, texts, and images. Dawud's work is interested in the lives of images online, and the ways technology reshapes memory, intimacy, and storytelling.

Daniella Bay is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland. A graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, Bay’s practice spans painting, large-scale installations, curation and collective organising. Bay is a founding member of The Killing–an artist collective known for experimental exhibitions and collaborative approaches to making.
Bay’s work largely draws from iconography, ornamentation and urban visual culture, moving fluidly between sincerity and spectacle. Working across shifting forms and materials, she builds worlds that are saturated, sentimental and intentionally embellished.

Francis Page Gummer is a Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland based artist with a concept driven practice. His work revolves around the relationship between viewer and artist–more specifically, the artist's responsibility in engaging with the audience's interpretation of their work. Page-Gummer is known for his non-sequitur work consisting of Impact font text paintings on various materials–often found or repurposed. More recently, he has been exploring installation making that attempts to subvert viewer’s notions of authenticity.

Stevee-Renee Robinson of Ngāpuhi, Kāi Tahu, Te Āti Awa, Tainui and Ngāti Kahungunu is a painter based in Pōneke, Wellington. Robinson explores internet culture through the collation of pop iconography, politics and memes. Her works oppose the distractive and saturated online environment, using black and white paint as a means to reduce the cognitive stimulation one may feel when scrolling online.

Ziggy Humberstone is an artist from Waiuku currently residing in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.
Informed by the ethos of reciprocity, Humberstone's practice is informed by the communities she moves through. Responding to ongoing modes of memory and visual introspection, she attends to how recollection is constructed through systems of permanence and unfamiliarity.
Working across painting and found object assemblage, Humberstone engages speculative histories, domestic environments, digital archives, and composite landscapes. These spaces function through the intersection of lived and inherited residues, probing the tensions of recollection and estrangement, intimacy and otherness.