In the Works provides a vital platform for artists to share ideas, test forms, and connect with audiences through a series of short works nights. In 2026, PACT will present three editions of In the Works across February, April and June, each curated by members of PACT’s Associate Artists team. This program exists in direct response to the ongoing lack of opportunities for emerging artists to develop and present new work.
Curated by Associate Artists Martin del Amo, Claudia Chidiac, Victoria Hunt and Jazz Money, In the Works: ScreenWorlds brings together a selection of screen-based pieces from artists across disciplines. Featuring new works by Gillian Kayrooz, Lucky Lartey, Hugo Poulet and Joel Sherwood Spring.
Photo credit for banner: Shane Rozario
The Artists
Lucky Lartey (he/him) is a Sydney-based interdisciplinary artist working at the nexus of installation art and choreography. Born in Ghana, West Africa, Lartey’s practice draws on a rich history of traditional Afro-rhythm, dance and architecture alongside a contemporary art practice spanning spatial drawing, video, animation, and installation.
Gillian Kayrooz and her art practice were nurtured on unceded Dharug land in Guildford, Western Sydney and is deeply rooted in alternative methods of truth-telling through image-making. Working across photography, video and participatory practice, her work foregrounds collective memory, everyday life and community resilience while challenging dominant forms of representation. She was awarded the 2018 Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellowship and has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Australia.
Hugo Poulet is a multidisciplinary independent artist based in Melbourne. A versatile and distinctive mover, he draws on a wide range of movement practices to expand the language of contemporary dance. He has performed with Stephanie Lake Company, Australasian Dance Collective and Sydney Dance Company, as well as with numerous independent choreographers. In 2024, Hugo premiered his first full-length work, orbital, at PACT Centre for Emerging Artists. He is currently developing SIGIL, a solo work exploring the intersection of dance and his music practice.
Joel Sherwood Spring is a Wiradjuri interdisciplinary artist based in Sydney/Gadigal/Wangal lands working collaboratively on projects that examine ways of seeing Country through technology and desires for Indigeneity. Their current work confronts and channels both the desire for land and minerals at the core of our national identity and what today appear as 'progressive' identity formations.
“Exploring the potential of Indigenous materialist readings of art and architecture towards repatriation, reparation, and return of land. I am learning how to employ art making, exhibition making, publishing, and pedagogy within what is recognised as black or Indigenous studies.”
Lucky headshot credit: Shane Rozario, Gillian headshot credit: Jason Sukadana, Hugo headshot credit: Sean Slattery
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Where: PACT Centre For Emerging Artists, 107 Railway Parade, Erskineville NSW 2043.
Getting to PACT:
By train: Erskineville Station (250m), Newtown Station (900m), and Macdonaldtown Station (1km)
By bus: 355 Bus Stop (250m); Newtown (900m)
By taxi: Erskineville Road Taxi Stand (300m)
By car: Railway Parade has unlimited free street parking -
PACT is an accessible venue, with level access throughout the public areas of the building and non-gendered, ambulant and wheelchair-accessible toilets. There is accessible (non-dedicated) street parking on Railway Parade. The nearest accessible train stations are Erskineville (5 minutes) and Newtown (15 minutes).
For additional accessibility support, please contact us – info@pact.net.au
We encourage you to contact us with any access questions and to discuss your requirements with us. -
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
