A 34-year-old Kiwi artist who has worked with Leonardo DiCaprio and Dior is finally showing his work at home. Jesse Woolston, based in Los Angeles but raised in Auckland, will stage The Infinite Constant Front at Art in the Park, running at Eden Park from 12 to 15 November 2026.
Woolston specialises in enormous digital simulations of natural phenomena — tornadoes, waves, waterfalls, cosmic gases — projected onto architecture and paired with original music he composes himself. The main work at Eden Park will be a projection about as wide as the stadium's goalposts, distilling what he calls one moment in New Zealand's powerful and unpredictable environment. A companion piece breaks that energy into digitised strips flashing around the stadium in nature-derived blues, greens and ochres.
Despite the tech-heavy look, Woolston insists nothing is AI-generated. He builds hand-made models of waterways and plugs real data from New Zealand's online databases on weather systems, erosion and water flows into his own code. Some installations take six months or more of coding and model-building, with sculpted steel elements on top.
The CV is impressive for someone who skipped university and moved to LA as a teenager to make electronic music. He collaborated with DiCaprio's Re-Wild nature charity (raising over US$40,000, unpaid), created floral installations for Dior after an Instagram DM, showed with Pace Gallery and at Frieze London, and sold work at Christie's inaugural Augmented Intelligence auction. There's also been a luxury hotel commission in Dubai.
His subject never changes, though. Growing up in Lower Hutt and Auckland — swimming at Piha, hiking under moonlight — shaped everything. "It all started in New Zealand and my relationship with the land," he told the NZ Herald, describing his aim as capturing "the honesty of nature" and the bodily feeling of standing in front of a tornado.
For travellers in Auckland in November 2026, this is a rare chance to see a globe-trotting artist's large public work in the city that formed him — and it's free of gallery stuffiness, staged in a football stadium with light and sound wrapping around the crowd.