JACQUI
KENNY

Jacqui Kenny is a New Zealand artist based in the UK, working at the intersection of art and technology. Drawing from her extensive background in the film and digital industries, she brings a multilayered perspective to her creative practice.

In 2016, Jacqui launched The Agoraphobic Traveller, a project that originated on Instagram as @streetview.portraits. It features a collection of surreal imagery captured from remote locations via Google Street View. Initially conceived as an escape from her agoraphobia, The Agoraphobic Traveller quickly gained a massive following and expanded beyond digital, evolving into collaborations with charities, Christie’s auction house, and brands including Google, Gucci, Lexus and Louis Vuitton.

Jacqui's work has been featured in Visual Culture by MIT Press, A Chronology of Photography by Thames & Hudson, and covered by hundreds of media outlets, including Vogue, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Wired. One of the highlights of her career was a solo exhibition in Soho, New York under the patronage of Google.

Since 2020, Jacqui has been developing Argleton Lane, an AI assisted project that builds on her personal journey of self-discovery and liberation from anxiety and agoraphobia. She has used her vast archive of curated Street View images to generate entirely new worlds utilising machine learning and building AI-trained models. She has released three sold-out NFT collections to date.

Jacqui's latest project introduces characters to the Argleton Lane universe. The first instalment is a self-portrait series, Safety Behaviours, presenting poetic interpretations of the artist’s experiences navigating agoraphobia. She is also working on an AI film funded by the British Art Council.