Harry Conneally is a third-year Fine Art student at Curtin University, specializing in painting, drawing, and printmaking. His work navigates the intersections of technology, memory, and geography, examining how digital mapping and urbanization shape our perception of place and presence. Through both traditional and digital processes, Conneally reconstructs fragmented landscapes and urban environments, revealing what is lost, overlooked, or erased by time, conflict, and shifting global interest.
In his printmaking practice, Conneally engages with Google Earth imagery to explore the selective visibility of digital cartography. By deconstructing and reassembling landscapes that have been omitted, altered, or abandoned, he exposes the fragility of memory and the politics of representation. These composite geographies challenge the authority of mapping technologies, highlighting themes of dislocation, migration, and erasure. His work questions what is seen, what is forgotten, and who controls the narrative of space.
In painting, he turns his focus to the loneliness embedded in contemporary, tech-driven urban life. His compositions evoke the isolation of individuals navigating hyper-connected yet emotionally distant environments, where digital presence often replaces genuine human connection. Through layered textures, fragmented forms, and expressive mark-making, he captures the alienation of modern cityscapes—places teeming with people yet defined by solitude.