Zac Langdon-Pole’s practice is situated across varying magnitudes of time. With an eye for minute detail, he sifts through history on both personal and planetary scales. His work contests the historical accounts and myths attributed to the origins of personal and cultural objects by subjecting them to alchemic, human and natural processes. Hypothesising that authenticity exists as a cultivation of disparate perspectives, Langdon-Pole underlines the biases of history (namely colonial legacies) and examines the residue of socio-cultural exchanges, exoticism and ornamentation. His works are physical manifestations of personal histories converging with larger social developments and collective legacies.

Langdon-Pole has exhibited throughout Australia and Internationally. Significant exhibitions include the solo exhibition The Drift of the world, International Centre for Art and Landscape (Centre Internationale d'Art et du Paysage) France (2025-2026); The 11th Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA, Brisbane, Australia (2024); Anything Could Happen, Sculpture on the Gulf at Waiheke Island, New Zealand (2024); and Containing Multitudes, City Gallery, Wellington (2020). Langdon-Pole was a McCahon Artist in Residence at Parehuia, Titirangi, NZ (2022). He was awarded the BMW Art Journey Prize (2018), which saw him travel the globe, following the pathways of migratory birds and celestial navigators; and he was the recipient of the Ars Viva-Prize (2017). Langdon-Pole studied under Willem de Rooij at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Frankfurt, Germany. His work is held in the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, Germany as well as prominent Australian and New Zealand collections including; Buxton Contemporary, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Chartwell Collection.

 

Zac Langdon-Pole’s Art Journey Constellations

Zac Langdon-Pole

Zac Langdon-Pole’s Art Journey Constellations