Supporting long-time collaborator James Lavelle – the revered British musician, producer, curator and founder of music collective Unkle – in 2019 Du Preez & Thornton Jones showcased their 360-creative arsenal with an odyssey of artworks for Lavelle’s seminal multi-sensory exhibition Beyond the Road at London’s Saatchi Gallery. Responding to Unkle’s most recent album The Road: Part II (Lost Highway) the centrepiece was a reality-blurring film (sharing screen space with work by Oscar-winning film director Alfonso Cuarón, among others) invoking a female Rōnin – a master-less, wandering warrior – performed by progressive Chinese dancer Maya Jilan Dong.
The project team included legendary British cinematographer, Henry Braham (The Golden Compass, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Suicide Squad 2); English-Pakistani choreographer Farooq Chaudhry OBE; British production designer Joseph Bennett (architect of the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition) and cult nineties couture fashion label Boudicca.