Ian is now a fully established video artist. His poetry videos have met great success, having been shown at festivals, galleries, installations and on-line programs around the world, including UK, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, France, Portugal, Croatia, Ukraine, USA, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Brazil, India, as well as many locations around Australia. Several have won or have been short-listed for awards and prizes at international festivals. Some recent videos that have received critical acclaim are in the gallery below. Click here to see the full list of screening of Ian’s videos.
Much of Ian’s recent work explores themes related to the consequences of anthropogenic climate change. Many of these videos have been screened in both local and international programs exploring the interfaces between art, science, politics and the environment.
Ian has contributed videos to art-science installations including Not Absolute, The Microscope Project, Floribunda and Body of Evidence, which commissioned two of Ian’s video works for the Adelaide Convention Centre. 42nds was commissioned as a public art work by Adelaide City Council and the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT): it has been projected onto a department store wall in Rundle Street; onto a water screen on the River Torrens during Hybrid World Adelaide 2018; and shown at the Adelaide Festival Theatre Digital Screens. More recently, he has collaborated with artists for both gallery installations and documentary work, including Catherine Truman, Tony Kearney, and Amanda Sefton Hogg. In 2025, The Taken Path, a 6-channel video installation with 4-channel audio, made in collaboration with Catherine Truman, was exhibited as part of the 2025 Adelaide Festival.
Ian makes short natural history videos, documenting rarely seen events in the environment, usually involving small creatures, such as spiders and insects. This work stems from his long interest in macro photography. Some of these videos have merged with his video art to become so-called experimental documentaries, which have generated considerable interest. Click here to see a sample showcase.
In 2017/2018, Ian made a series of documentary videos in Italian for Australia Donna’s project: Language and Legacy: Exploring the legacy of Italian language across generations of women of Italian origin. Funded by the SA Department for Communities and Social Inclusion, this project documented six first generation women, together with their daughters and granddaughters, in an exploration of their experiences and the meaning inherent in sharing their deep linguistic and cultural baggage. Click here to see this project.
Ian also has made documentary videos of various poetry gigs around Adelaide (eg here or here).
For an extended interview with Ian about his video art, click here.
A selection of Ian’s videos that have received wide screening…
| The Life We Live Is Not Life Itself | after-image | Warranty & Conditions of Use |
| floodtide | The Ferrovores | ISOLATION PROCEDURES |
| future perfect | Colony Collapse | dog daze |
The examples below are early works that were among the first to be published or screened in public.
Rearrangements was originally performed at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Fringe in 2013 with Kerryn Tredrea, Tracey Korsten and Cindy Macdonald. The first poem in the sequence won the Friendly Street Poets 2014 Satura Prize.
Bayside Reporter was published in Australian Poetry Members Anthology, 2014 and selected for Moving Poems: the best poetry videos on the web.
Editor’s Selection was published in Overland Photonic, 2014.
SPSS was originally published in Cordite Poetry Review, 2015. It went on to shortlisted and screened at the Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival 2017 (Worcester, MA, USA, 2017). It also has been shown at the Adelaide Festival Theatre digital screens program (2019).
Some of Ian’s videos from the not absolute project are here.