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Matt Arbuckle

Matt Arbuckle

Matt Arbuckle’s practice is a process-driven exploration of place, representing landscapes that are conceptualised through their very making. Through an experimental practice that favours process over outcome, Arbuckle uses elements of traditional Japanese shibori dyeing techniques to create abstract compositions by wrapping, twisting, folding, and draping fabric over found surfaces and structures. The resulting paintings use depth and movement to trace and reveal abstract memories, imprinting the experience of place into the artwork.

  • Matt Arbuckle (b. 1987, New Zealand, lives in Melbourne/Naarm and Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau)

    Education
    2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art), Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland

    Solo Exhibitions
    2026 5 and below good to go (forthcoming), Daine Singer, Melbourne
    2026 Surface Song, Space Napier, NZ
    2025 The Punch, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS
    2025 Common Fate, Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
    2024 Mappa Mundi, Spa_ce Napier, Napier, NZ
    2024  Subduction and Abduction, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS
    2024  Theatre, Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
    2023  Triassic-Jurassic, Daine Singer, Melbourne AUS
    2023  Bow Echo, Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
    2022  Colour Vision, Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
    2021  Reflection is Reflection, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS
    2021  In the Echoes, Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
    2020  Recto/ Verso, Hastings City Art Gallery, NZ
    2020  Reading Hands, Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
    2020  Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
    2019  All The More Afraid, David, Melbourne, AUS
    2018  Commute to Compute, Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA
    2018  Low Cloud, Parlour Projects, Hawks Bay, NZ
    2018  Melbourne Art Fair with Tim Melville, AUS
    2017  Find Your Way, Tim Melville, Auckland, NZ
    2017  Easy Fold, BUS projects, Melbourne, AUS
    2017  Beatbox Blues Harp, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS
    2016  Structures of Viewing, Tim Melville, Auckland, NZ
    2016  Scales at Play, Neo Space, Melbourne, AUS
    2016  Eye Shots, Paulnache Gallery, NZ
    2015  Digression, Tim Melville, Auckland, NZ
    2015  Wrestling Posters Cause Fights, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide, AUS
    2015  BillyCart Installation, Brunswick Lake Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
    2015  Look/See, Chapter House Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
    2014  Slug und Salat, Augusto Space, Auckland, NZ
    2014  Slug und Lettuce, Paulnache Gallery, Gisbourne, NZ
    2013  Raunmschiff Betreuen, Baustelle Gallery, Berlin, DE
    2013  Pictorial Grammar, Holborn Building Space, London, UK
    2012  Who Moved My Cheese, Paulnache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ
    2011  Periscope Dots, Ninety Gallery, Auckland, NZ
    2010  Shit Hit The Fan, The Gallery With No Name, Auckland, NZ

    Group Exhibitions (selected)
    2026 Aoteroa Art Fair, Two Rooms, NZ
    2026 Sydney Contemporary, Two Rooms, AUS
    2025 Seasonal Shifts, Town Hall Gallery, AUS
    2025 Aotearoa Art Fair, NZ
    2024 Minor Attractions, London, UK
    2024  Melbourne Art Fair, AUS
    2024  Aotearoa Art Fair, NZ
    2023  Daine Singer at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney, AUS
    2023  Sydney Contemporary, AUS
    2023  Core Sample, Two Rooms, Auckland, NZ
    2022  Aotearoa Art Fair, NZ
    2022  O Horizon, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, AUS
    2022  DAS BOOT: Artist Car Boot Fair, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AUS
    2022  Beyond (curated by Emily Cormack), Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, AUS
    2022  Lazar, Haydens, AUS
    2021  Four X Four, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, AUS
    2021  Spring1883, Melbourne, AUS
    2021  Text Tile, Caves Gallery Melbourne, AUS
    2021  Full House, Hapua Street, Auckland, NZ
    2021  Frieze, Gowlangsford Gallery, Auckland, NZ
    2021  Spring1883, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS
    2021  Auckland Art Fair, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, NZ
    2021  Intimate Interiors, Parlour Projects, Hawks Bay, NZ
    2020  Daine Singer at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, AUS
    2020  My Funny Valentine, Missing Persons, Melbourne, AUS
    2019  Summer Show, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton, NZ
    2019  Auckland Art Fair with Parlour Projects, Auckland NZ
    2019  Dogs are Playful, Neospace, Melbourne, AUS
    2019  Regarding theWild, ChaShama, New York, USA
    2018  Winter Sun, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS
    2018  Brunswick Sculpture Centre, Melbourne, AUS
    2018  A Hush Fell, Collingwood, Melbourne, AUS
    2018  Colour & Line II, Tim Melville, Auckland, NZ
    2018  I like Anything, Tans Martial Arts, Melbourne, AUS
    2018  Passenger, Perera-Picco Artspace, Adelaide, AUS
    2017  ICON, Richmond Townhall Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
    2017  South, North, and Indented Head, Hugo Michell, Adelaide, AUS
    2017  Bricolage, ACSA, Adelaide, AUS
    2016  Re - Purpose, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, AUS
    2016  Middle Distance, Praxis Artspace, Adelaide, AUS
    2016  National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Museum, NZ
    2016  Chain of Mountains, TCB, Melbourne, AUS
    2016  Auckland Art Fair with Tim Melville, NZ
    2016  More Ground, Hanging Valley, Melbourne, AUS
    2016  Painting Matter, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS
    2016  48 Stunden Neukölln, Baustelle Gallery, Berlin, DE
    2016  Painting Prog, The Pah Homestead, TSB Wallace Arts Trust, NZ
    2015  Sydney Contemporary Art Fair with Tim Melville, Sydney, AUS
    2015  The Emperors New Clothes, Morrinsville Whare Toi Wallace Gallery, NZ
    2015  The smell of an oily rag, Fort Delta Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
    2015  The Emperors New Clothes, M Contemporary Gallery, Sydney, AUS
    2015  The Emperors New Clothes, Paulnache Gallery, Gisborne, NZ
    2014  Now You See It, Tim Melville Gallery, Auckland, NZ
    2014  A Beautiful Life, Paulnache Gallery, Gisbourne, NZ
    2014  Melbourne Art Fair Paulnache Gallery, Melbourne AUS
    2014  Tools of the Trade, The Wandering Room, Brisbane, AUS
    2014  Lying In Space, Upstairs 30 Gallery, Wellington, NZ
    2014  The Aggregate & the Algorithm, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne,AUS
    2014  Three Colours White, Tim Melville Gallery Auckland, NZ
    2014  Bootie Time, Das Boot, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, AUS
    2014  Frameless, Development Residency & Gallery, Auckland, NZ2014   LegRoom, Studio 40, Auckland, NZ
    2014   Pitch2, BaumgartenBrandt Rechtsanwälte, Berlin DE
    2013  Starlight Kurzen, Baustelle Gallery, Berlin, DE
    2013  Build the | das Bild, Berthelsdorfer str, Berlin, DE
    2013  Ost Und Wieder, Baustelle Gallery, Berlin, DE
    2012  Small Works Gallery, Brisbane, AUS
    2011  Show Me Dont, Tell Me, Ninety Gallery Auckland, NZ
    2010  Rhubarb Shoots, Shed 5, Auckland, NZ
    2009  Nicht So Schlimm, High Street Project, Christchurch, NZ

    Awards
    2023  Finalist, Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
    2022  Finalist, National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Art Museum NZ
    2009, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Finalist, Wallace Art Awards NZ
    2017  Finalist, Arthur Guy Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, VIC
    2019  Finalist, Bayside Prize, VIC
    2016  Finalist, National Contemporary Art Award, Waikato Art Museum NZ

    Residencies
    2021  Auckland Print Studio (forthcoming)
    2021  Driving Creek Railway, NZ
    2018  Vermont Studio Art Centre USA
    2018  Artist residency exchange at the Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation

    Collections
    Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
    Driving Creek Potteries collection, New Zealand
    James Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
    Arthur Roe Collection, Australia
    Whitehorse City Council

    Bibliography
    2025 Matt Arbuckle: Place to Place, Rim Books, NZ
    2024 Lucinda Bennett, 'Subduction and Abduction', cat. essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne
    2023  Emily Cormack, ‘Time Like a Cut Batter, cat. essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne
    2021  Erin Lee, Full house, cat. essay, https://www.the-art-paper.com/full-house/
    2020      John Hurrell, Review of Reading Hands exhibition, Eye Contact https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2020/05/arbuckle-abstractions
    2020      Laura Coutie, Reading Hands, cat. essay, Two Rooms, Auckland
    2018  Simon McGlinn, Blind Carbon Copy, cat essay
    2018  Loni Jeffs, Winter Sun at Daine Singer, review, UN Magazine
    2017  Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, Middle Distance, cat. essay
    2016  Anthony Oats, Repurpose, cat. essay, Drill Hall, Australian National University Canberra
    2016  Camilia Wagstaff, interview, Art Collector Magazine, issue 77
    2016  Quentin Sprague, More Ground (Matt Arbuckle & Robert Fielding) cat. essay
    2015  Reece King, Emma Smith and Richard Fahey, Programme One, cat. essays
    2014  T.J. McNamara, review, Dashing-way-with-the-abstract, New Zealand Herald




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