Murray Hewitt

Hope is not feeling that everything will be alright. Hope is what gets you to feel a meaning, and to get up and fight for what you believe is right. (2023)

6 min 30 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

Drilled in 1865, the Alpha Well was the first onshore well in the Moturoa oil field, a small part of the much larger Taranaki Basin. Republic NP4 was drilled in 1976 and is within walking distance of Alpha.

The title of this work is a quote from the documentary Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World.


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