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His practice is drawn to moments of geographical coincidence, displacement and translation: two places sharing a name, a plant transported across continents, an image standing in for a landscape, or a historical account travelling from one place to another. These connections become ways of considering how places acquire meaning through movement, classification, memory and representation.
His most recent film, Original Night, explores Scotland’s fading wallaby colony on Inchconnachan Island, Loch Lomond. Introduced in the 1940s by the Countess of Arran, the marsupials now face possible culling amid ongoing ecological controversy. Told in three semi-fictional acts, the film serves as an elegy for Europe’s last wallabies while reflecting on humanity’s enduring urge to record animals — from prehistoric cave art to early cinema — and linking the extinction of species with the evolution of image-making. The film will premiere at PAF Olomouc. In 2025, Asmussen Doyle completed a practice-based doctorate, Beside, on the Other Side, at the Belfast School of Art. His experience as an Australian living in Europe informs an ongoing interest in dislocation and duality — a sense of being here and there, and of inhabiting the distance between places. He is currently undertaking a FRART Research Project at the Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles – École supérieure des Arts (ARBA-ESA), titled L’Objectif de l’image. The research examines the ways in which lens-based apparatuses have imposed an optical rationality onto the landscape, particularly through the projection of linear structures across it.