Hear from artists Grant Stevens and Ana Iti in conversation with Katie Dyer as they discuss their works in the exhibition ‘All the World’s Memories’ at UNSW Galleries.
Working across moving image and screen-based media, their practices reflect on how memory is mediated through language, text, and systems of knowledge. The conversation explores affective registers and embodied archives, tracing how memory circulates between inner worlds and shared realities.
Ana Iti is a contemporary Māori artist of Te Rarawa and Pākehā descent from Aotearoa New Zealand. Working across sculpture, video and text, she explores poetic and structural relationships between language and the environment in addition to the practices of shared and personal history-making. Iti has developed a body of work that engages with the unstable borders between the land and sea as well as the human and non-human through video, text, publishing, and modular steel sculptures.
Grant Stevens is an Australian artist based on Bidjigal and Gadigal Land in Sydney. He works predominantly in screen-based practice, using text, computer graphics, and sound to explore how digital technologies and conventions of representation mediate inner worlds and social realities. He is also the Program Director of the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the UNSW School of Art & Design. He is represented by Sullivan + Strumpf.
Katie Dyer is a curator, writer and manager with over 20 years of cultural leadership experience managing collections and multi-faceted art projects and organisations in Australia and internationally. She is currently Consulting Senior Curator at Cairns Art Gallery, QLD, and Curatorial Advisor on Sampai Tak Sampai produced by Performing Lines. She has held positions at Artspace, Powerhouse Museum, National Art School, Sydney, and The Drawing Center and Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Presented in conjunction with ‘All the World’s Memories’ at UNSW Galleries from 13 February – 3 May 2026.
