Max Bellamy

Enjoy is pleased to present work by artist and filmmaker Max Bellamy.

A concerned child of film, television, and the Simpsons, Bellamy is
determined to do his bit for a healthier screen culture. Part of a generation
he characterises as fixated by screens of all sizes, he challenges the apathy
this modern relationship fosters. He asks audiences to not just passively
accept empty messages and instead figure out how they can be more
critically engaged.

Bellamy's sculptural tableaux solidify televisual reality around them.
These works remind viewers that even the internet is built on cables
and chips, and that behind every moving image is an essential social and
environmental backbone. Can screen culture be integrated into the world,
instead of taking it over?

Max Bellamy is a practicing artist and filmmaker based in Dunedin.
A director, cinematographer, editor, and camera operator, he works as a
technician/research assistant and tutor in the Electronic Arts department
of the Dunedin School of Art.

Image by Max Bellamy

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