Nicci Haynes’ artistic practice traverses media, working across drawing, performance, print, film, and installation. Haynes’ new installation Incidental TV (2023) was sparked by a encountering a hoard of screens on a nature strip.

As Haynes amassed screens from roadsides and e-waste bins for this exhibition, the installation formed a particular aesthetic, with broken and degraded imagery developing in tandem with the growing collection of discarded equipment. The focus of the work waste, transience and randomness.

Incidental TV is an extension of the of the artist’s ongoing interest in film which disrupts regular viewing tropes, creating works that are short, without typical narrative structure and presented in unconventional forms.