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.
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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. -
Lucinda Bennett, 'Subduction and Abduction', catalogue essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS, 2024 >>
Emily Cormack, ‘Time Like a Cut Batter’, catalogue essay, Daine Singer, Melbourne, AUS, 2023 >>
Erin Lee ‘Full house’ catalogue essay, Auckland, NZ, 2021 >>
John Hurrell, Review of ‘Reading Hands’, Eye Contact, 2020 >>
Laura Couttie ‘Reading Hands’ catalogue essay, Auckland, NZ, 2020 >>
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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
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, NZGroup Exhibitions (selected)
2024 Minor Attractions, London, UK
2024 Melbourne Art Fair
2024 Aotearoa Art Fair, NZ
2023 Daine Singer at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2023 Sydney Contemporary
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, NZAwards
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 NZResidencies
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 CorporationCollections
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, AustraliaBibliography
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
