Daine Singer at Darren Knight Gallery

Matt Arbuckle

Matt Arbuckle is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist living and working between Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Naarm/Melbourne. Arbuckle has a BFA from Unitec Institute of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2009), and has held solo exhibitions at Daine Singer (Melbourne), Two Rooms (Auckland), Hastings City Art Gallery (New Zealand), Bus Projects (Melbourne), Parlour Projects (Hawks Bay, New Zealand), Paulnache Gallery (Gisborne, New Zealand), Vermont Studio Center (USA), and Baustelle Gallery (Berlin). He has participated in group exhibitions including at ChaShama (New York), Drill Hall Gallery (Canberra), Hugo Michell Gallery (Adelaide), TCB (Melbourne), Hanging Valley (Melbourne), Caves (Melbourne), Haydens (Melbourne), The Pah Homestead, TSB Wallace Arts Trust (Auckland), Gowlangsford (Auckland), Laree Payne (Hamilton), and Salamanca Arts Centre (Hobart). Arbuckle has participated in art fairs including Aotearoa Art Fair, Sydney Contemporary, Melbourne Art Fair, and Spring1883.

Arbuckle was the recipient of the 2017 James Wallace Art Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, USA, followed by a solo exhibition there in 2018. In 2020–21 he was invited to present a solo exhibition at Hastings City Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2021 he undertook a residency at Driving Creek, Coromandel, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Arbuckle’s work is held in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki; the Wallace Arts Trust Collection; Driving Creek Potteries, New Zealand, and the Arthur and Suzie Roe Collection, Melbourne. In 2022 Arbuckle was a recipient of the Melbourne Art Fair’s large-scale installation commission Beyond, supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants and the Melbourne Art Foundation.

Kirsty Budge

Kirsty Budge is an Aotearoa/New Zealand-born artist based in Melbourne/Naarm. Recent exhibitions include FAIR by NADA, New York (Daine Singer, 2020); Melbourne Art Fair (Daine Singer, 2020 and 2022); (I’ve got) half a mind, (2022), If you’re gonna spew, spew into this (2020); The Doing (2019), Gawkalitis (2017), Daine Singer, Melbourne; NADA New York (Daine Singer, 2018); The Painters are In, Spring 1883 (Daine Singer, 2016), and I’m not desperate, you’re desperate, Sarah Scout Presents (2016). Group exhibitions include Killing Time, Chapter House Lane (2018); VCA 150 alumni 9x5, Margaret Lawrence Gallery (2017), Painting. More Painting, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (2016), Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany (2016), Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery (2021, 2019, 2017), Return, Daine Singer (2015), Man, Tristian Koenig (2015); Pretty Shit, Incidents Above a Bar (2015) and Paintings, C3 (2014).

In 2021 Kirsty Budge won the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize. She has undertaken residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, as the recipient of an Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship (2018), and at the Caselberg Trust on the Otago Peninsula, New Zealand (2019).

Budge has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts, where she was recipient of the 2014 Stirling Collective Award for Painting. Her work is held in the Artbank, Bendigo Art Gallery, City of Port Phillip and Arndt collections.

Zoë Croggon

Zoë Croggon has a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Victorian College of the Arts with First Class Honours. She has held solo exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Peckham 24 (London), Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Perth Centre for Photography, Daine Singer and the Melbourne Art Fair and has participated in group exhibitions at institutions including the National Gallery of Victoria, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Monash University Museum of Art, NGV Studio, Samstag Museum of Art, Ian Potter Museum of Art and the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery.

Croggon has been awarded the Maddocks Art Prize (2019), Art Gallery of New South Wales Studio Scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2018), ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award (2014), the Asia-Pacific Photobook Prize (2015) and the ACACIA Art Award (2010). She has also been shortlisted for the Churchie Art Prize, Basil Sellers Art Prize at the Ian Potter Museum of Art and the Wallara Travelling Scholarship. Her work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, MUMA, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Horsham Regional Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery and Artbank.

Grant Nimmo

Grant Nimmo is a Melbourne/Naarm-based artist. He has held solo exhibitions at Daine Singer (2022, 2021, 2016); Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland (2021, 2019); Fort Delta, Melbourne (2018); Westspace, Melbourne (2014); Chapter House Lane, Melbourne (2014); Sawtooth, Launceston (2013); Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne (2013, 2011, 2010); Stockroom Kyneton, Victoria (2012); TCB Art Inc (2011); Rearview Gallery, Melbourne (2010); and Evan Hughes Gallery, Sydney (2009). He has participated in group exhibitions at galleries including the National Gallery of Victoria, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Spring 1883, Bus Projects, Westspace, TCB Art Inc, Art Athena Athens Art Fair, Seventh, Anna Pappas, Death Be Kind, Korean International Art Fair, Melbourne Art Fair, Salamanca Art Centre and Gertrude Contemporary, and is currently exhibiting in Melbourne Now at the NGV. Nimmo has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University. His work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank and Gippsland Art Gallery.

Kate Tucker

Kate Tucker is a Melbourne/Naarm-based artist. Her recent projects include solo exhibitions at Daine Singer, Cathedral Cabinet, Bus Projects, Galerie Pompom, Art Stage Singapore, Chapter House Lane, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Platform and Helen Gory, and group exhibitions at NADA New York, Sutton Projects, Dutton Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, Caloundra Regional Gallery, Castlemaine Art Museum, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Ararat Gallery TAMA, McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Murray White Room, La Trobe Art Institute, Geelong Gallery, Penrith Regional GalleryCaves, Tristian Koenig, SPRING1883, Incinerator Gallery, Bus Projects and LON Gallery. Tucker is recipient of the 2022 Sunshine Coast Art Prize, and has been a finalist in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Len Fox Painting Prize, Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation Prize, Albany Art Prize, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, The Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Geelong Acquisitive Print Awards, and The Archibald Prize. Her work is held in collections including Artbank, Shepparton Art Museum and Bendigo Art Gallery. Tucker graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2009. In late 2023 Perimeter will publish a monograph of her work.