𝑫𝑰𝑬𝑺 is an experiment, testing what might be produced when a pair of colonial-era basalt millstones are sonically reacquainted with the now-buried creek that once set them in motion. Unexpected and emergent relations are formed, amplifying material memories belonging to rock and water. 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 is an artist and a descendant of transported convicts and British and Dutch-Sri Lankan immigrants. He lives and works on the unceded sovereign Country of Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Boon Wurrung and Bunurong peoples. 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐞 investigates the parallels between the global movement of objects resulting from trade and colonisation, and the punitive transportation of his own ancestors, speculating on the legacies and inheritances of these corresponding displacements. His art practice combines material experimentation and unorthodox mark-making processes, often reconstituting spent objects into new forms. Collective and collaborative modes of working are integral to his practice, and he has been the founding director of three influential ARIs: Locksmith Project Space, Sydney (2007-2011); Cosmopolitan Decline, Broken Hill (2018); and in 2021 Kenzee founded the online reading and field trip working-group Magnetic Topographies with artists Clare Britton and Therese Keogh. 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐞 has been the recipient of prestigious awards and grants including the 2009 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship (University of Sydney), an Australia Council New Work Grant (2012), an Australia Council 2020 Resilience Fund – Create Grant, and a Creative Australia International Engagement Fund Grant (2024). In 2023, 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐞 commenced his PhD at Monash University, and was awarded a Research Training Program Scholarship and a Monash Graduate Excellence Scholarship. 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐞𝐞 is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.