Celeste de Clario Davis is an artist and filmmaker based in Naarm (Melbourne). Most recently, she completed her first Screen Australia–funded feature documentary, Things Will Be Different (2024), which has received national and international recognition. Her practice explores documentary, photographic archives and the complexities of lens-based documentation. Celeste has lived experience in public housing and is passionate about community filmmaking. Much of Celeste’s photography background has informed her video work: in 2017 Celeste had her second solo exhibition ‘HOMES’, a visual ode to public housing (supported by Yarra Council), — and has just completed working as the cinematographer and producer on feature-length documentary, Things Will Be Different, in collaboration with RMIT’s Centre for Global and Urban Studies, about displacement and Victoria’s Public Housing Renewal Program. Celeste co-founded APAX Creative Studios in 2021, a photography studio and multidisciplinary creative space in Preston where she currently practices photography. ​ For decades this life-size wooden horse has been more garaged than stabled: packed tight with other relics, appearing and disappearing as the mass shifts. Before, it was a classified ad “for collection” in a local newspaper. Its life previous is as unknown as its future. By chronicling this sculpture, I preserve some part of it. A proxy, perhaps, but also proof that it was and is. Objects have two destinies: a museum (and then a most-times a dark warehouse), or the tip. Either way, the horse has been archived. In light.