David Loughlin

David Loughlin (Raglan/Whāingaroa) is an Aotearoa-based visual artist and architect whose practice weaves large-format wet-plate photography with ancestral ecology and place-based research. Working with 15×12 inch glass ambrotypes, rongoā plants, and roadside geologies, He explores how whenua holds memory across generations.

Currently completing a Master of Fine Arts at Elam School of Fine Arts, his project investigates knowledge and territory—drawing on archival histories and Indigenous visual methodologies to understand the ecologies of Raglan’s coastal road corridor.