Morgan Ashworth
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Morgan Ashworth

Morgan is a tangata Tiriti writer and postgraduate art history student from Te Awa Kairangi Hutt Valley.

    Morgan Ashworth on CIRCUIT

    A man in a blue suit and tie kneels on a concrete staircase facing the camera, as if to give an explanation. At top left we see a logo for the New Zealand government. On the screen, we see the words 'need of review'. The man's colourful socks cast doubt on his apparent authority and point towards satire.

    An escalation: Joe Jowitt's Descending, ascending, regular, irregular (two-out-of-three) (2025)

    Essay
    By Morgan Ashworth ·

    A site-specific commission by Joe Jowitt plays with the tropes of government regulation and beauracracy.

    An escalation

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