A film is projected onto a wall, in it we see the brake lights of a small car in a blurry rear-view mirror.
Artist

Grant Priest

Grant Priest (b. 1991, Whanganui, New Zealand) is a doctoral candidate at Elam School of Fine Arts in Tāmaki Makaurau. His practice has developed in response to issues of categorisation, boundaries, and surveillance using the infrastructure of mass-motoring, prisons, education, and media as tools for the preservation of established structures.

Writing & podcasts featuring Grant Priest

A film plays in a dark screening room; the screen depicts a view of a car's rear vision mirror showing arrow signs on a road at night

Road Toll

Exhibition review
By Lachlan Taylor · July 26, 2023

"The road as escape, the road as gendered independence and virility, as freedom. The road as an awfully white, awfully landed marker of progress and moral good." — Lachlan Taylor considers Grant Priest's recent exhibition CAN at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.

Grant Priest CAN

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