I am an Aotearoa New Zealand-born artist working across sculpture, installation, sound, photography and lens-based practices. My current research interests are situated in collaboration and cooperation, the relationship between art and science, and archives and libraries. Specifically, I'm interested in how seemingly static forms of knowledge organisation (like archives, institutional material, and scientific paradigms) can be activated/implicated/transformed in the present time and environs. I do this via installation, which I see as a mode of practice that is always in motion, and incorporating collaboration, writing, performance, and exhibition-making. I consider 'materials' to be time-based documents that exist in a temporal flux with other materials, contexts, and ideas.

Lever holds a PhD in practice-led visual arts from Auckland University of Technology. Lever was a co-director at RM Gallery and Project Archive between 2014 and 2017. He is a current member of the Substantial Motion Research Network (SMRN), and of The Observatory Project. Selected video works can be found on CIRCUIT.