'Smac' McCreanor, aka Hydraulic Press Girl, makes gallery debut at the NGV Triennial

If you've spent any time online recently, there's a good chance you've seen a Smac McCreanor video. She's made her name getting "squished" in viral videos, re-creating objects being crushed in a hydraulic press through performance. In her Hydraulic Press Girl videos, one half of the screen shows footage of the machine squashing an object — a soft drink can, say — alongside McCreanor's performance on the other. She says Hydraulic Press Girl possesses "an underlying tone of humour" and she wants the audience to laugh at it. "He's a fantastic illustrator … he's a stunt person — he can do everything," says McCreanor, who takes a similarly multidisciplinary approach to her artistic life.