Masons Screen

Supported by Wellington City Council and programmed by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image, Masons Screen presents a new artist’s work each month.

The screen is located on Masons Lane – a pedestrian walkway between The Terrace and Lambton Quay.

Current video

Nat Tozer - A Sapling to Tie (2025)

Digital Video, Sound, 10 minutes

18 March - 28 April 2025

A Sapling to Tie is a visual poem considering the transitory spaces we occupy and the ways we are tethered to place. In particular, this work returns to the sunken, intimate sites of childhood imagination and memory, where huts were made and saplings were tied.

Nat Tozer is an artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her work explores narratives of the underground to unearth objects and knowledge. She combines expanded geological enquiry with science fiction and mythology. Working across moving image, materiality, and social sculpture, Tozer is interested in folk tales, the revision of mythologies into local ecologies, tunnelling, anarchist anthropology, and network theories.

Past projects

• Wesley John Fourie, Mason's Ballad (2024)
• Claus Lucas, Three Studies (2024)
• Alex Plumb, Elena (2017)
• Samantha Cheng, Take a 10 (2022-23)
• Antonia Van Sitter, Mānawatia te Whenua, Mānawatia te Tangata (2024)
• Yvonne Todd, Denim Seagull (2013)
• Robyn Jordaan, The Lady at the Pier (2024)
• Noel Meek and Jake Kīanō Skinner, Rua Kōhatu / Two Stones (2024)
• the observatory project, non-standard measures (2023)
• Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Bledisloe Bebop (2020)
• Hiona Henare, THEY AIN'T WOKE YET (2023)
• Keri-Mei Zagrobelna (Te Āti Awa, Te Whānau-ā-Apanui) – Te Pito (2023)
• Hana Pera Aoake – I saw the mountain erupt (2023)
• Leala Faleseuga – Vessel: Dissolution | It's in the milk (2023)
• Matthew Cowan and Jana Müller – Background Scenes (2022)
• Xi Li – Prosperity or Emptiness (2022)
• Cat Auburn – Crying Cliffs (2010)
• Richard Frater – Sweet Apparition (2008)
• Yona Lee – Propositions (2021)
• Arapeta – Te Orokoomaa (2022)
• Suzanne Tamaki – Manu does Matariki (2022)
• Bruce Barber – Spectres of Marx (2015)
• Sione Faletau – Kupesi o Mason Screen (Patterns of Mason Screen) (2022)
• Jamie Berry – Wai whakaika (2022)
• Gabriel White – Scenic Journey (2022)
• Louie Zalk-Neale, Mana tipua tuku iho – Transcestor (2021)
• James R Ford – Infinite Monkey Syndrome (2012)
• Jae Hoon Lee – A Leaf (2003)
• Louisa Afoa – Pink Flamingo (2016)
• Phil Dadson – Am I Dreaming? (2020)