Sicily

Sicily blends an impressionistic portrait of a group of friends on a trip through Southern Italy, with a majestic procession of images from vastly different landscapes and experiences.

Les Olympiades

Avenue d’Ivry, 13th Arrondisement

The project is an ode to the area around Avenue d’Ivry and the brutalist Les Olympiades housing development in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. an urbanist housing project led by architect Michel Holley in the ​’60s and ​’70s. Inspired by Le Corbusier, Holley’s vision was to create a city within a city, a utopian network of tower blocks with each level designated for a specific purpose. Built between 1969 and 1974, the area is home to a large South-East Asian diaspora, and is affectionately known as Le Quartier Asiatique.

Cazenove

Upcoming Book

Cazenove is a photographic book based on the area Cazenove Ward around Cazenove Road and the communities within the mosque, synagogues, schools, other organisations and residential housing within the street.

Quiet Moments

The series explores a slower mood from a previous time. Known as ‘pillow shots’ influenced by the master Yasujiro Ozu. Pillow shots are placed between scenes in films where calmness and serenity is needed to balance out the pace of the movie. It leads to the audience viewing the world in a much more reflective mindset.

The Monolith Series

2022

In our current social media and content centred age, we find ourselves literally closer to our screens, emblematic of our reluctance to step back and reflect on the significance, the thoughtfulness, of a captured moment. The gallery provides a uniquely low stimulation environment so as to facilitate this 'stepping back', allowing us to ponder, among other things, the role that the screen plays in our lives. Like many of Gurton’s other series this is a continuation of his question on the heavy reliability of technology in our lives.

The Dahlias

Summer, 2022

Tidal

Dance Performance

I had wanted to do a minimal dance piece. Something that connected to my other work. Something that felt you were watching it on the stage but at the same time it was interactive and closer than the theatre could be. The one take really adds to this as well. Forcing you to just sit there and watch.

Life As We Know It

Dijon

Pedestal Flowers

2022

A study on formal flower paintings. Letting the flowers show their personality and their differences within the same repeated background. Like a portrait.

The Artist Sessions

2021 – 2022

Portrait sessions with Tala Madani, Manuel Mathieu, Sofia Mitsola, Sabine Moritz, Elizabeth Neale, Shahzia Sikander Sophie Von Hellerman

The Chairs

2021

Continuing along the lines of Pedestal Flowers and The Monolith Series, The Chairs examines form, shape and line in ordinary objects. The series encourages the viewer to question the ways in which these objects are traditionally used and perceived.

Nisyros

Greek Islands

Nisyros was photographed in a summer where I was exploring new parts of Europe I hadn’t seen before. This volcanic Greek island is home to only a 1000 inhabitants. The tourist trade had not discovered it, which gave it a beautiful pure authenticity, a place that stood still and had not been influenced by the modern world.

Mount Kosciuszko

Pre-Australian Bushfires

This was the last project I did before leaving Australia. The photos were taken prior to the Australian bushfires, where 231,000 hectares were burnt of the National Park. Showing a land untouched by global warming’s increased natural disasters.

Glassware

A study on shape and design from different glassware from periods of history. How a drink can shape a glass or how a glass can shape a drink.