Laura Duffy

Laura Duffy is an artist based in Te Whanganui-A-Tara, Aotearoa. Her practise explores pleasure or joy derived from failure, error and disgust. Duffy often uses film, low-fi animation & digital media to explore porous boundaries between perceptions of binary concepts. Duffy’s multimedia visual practise is interested in queer desire. 


CIRCUIT Resources

Podcast, with Aliyah Winter and Robbie Handcock (2020) 

CIRCUIT Projects

The Sound of Seeing, Wellington (2020)
Home Movies, Wellington (2019) 
Masons Screen, Wellington (2016)

Selected Exhibitions

2021
Candy Coated, The Dowse, Wellington 

2020
!ERROR! (solo), Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Wellington
Thinking About Thinking About The Future, Te Uru, Auckland
Duirvias, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin
The Warm Illumination of A Horizon (solo), Play Station, Wellington
The Sound of Seeing, The Pyramid Club, Wellington 

2019 
Home Movies: Aura Festival, Newtown, Wellington
Garden of Purity, Rear Window, Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Razor Sharp and Over Saturated, Kings Artist Run Space, Melbourne, Australia
Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan
Subterrenea, 13Lounge, Chengdu, China 

2018
Hive Mind, The Engine Room, Wellington
Garden of Purity (solo), Courtenay Place Lightboxes, Wellington
Garden of Purity (solo), MEANWHILE, Wellington
Slumber Party, MEANWHILE, Wellington

2017
No One is Sovereign in Love, MEANWHILE, Wellington
Intimate Distance, Toi Poneke, Wellington. 
Street Cinema, FELTspace, Adelaide, Australia

2016
NOW NOW,  JPEG2000, 17 Tory St, Wellington
Mason's Screen Project, Wellington
Dark Matter, JPEG2000, National Portrait Gallery, Wellington
Ten Hours Behind Ahead, Leipzig, Germany
Angelwave, JPEG2000, Play Station, Wellington