Exhibition history
mattarbuckle@gmail.com
b. 1987, Auckland, New Zealand
lives in Narrm, Melbourne & Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
2009 Graduated from Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts
Selected exhibitions
2023 Triassic-Jurassic, Daine Singer, Melbourne (solo)
Core Sample, Two Rooms, Auckland
Daine Singer artist at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Sydney Contempoary, Two Rooms
2022 Colour Vision, Two Rooms, Auckland (solo)
Auckland Art Fair, Two Rooms
Lazar, Haydens, Melbourne
O Horizon, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart, Tasmania
Text Tile, Caves Gallery Melbourne
Recto / Verso, Beyond, Melbourne Art Fair curated by Emily Cormack (solo)
Cash n Caddy, Das Boot, ACCA, curated by Esther Stewart & Oscar Perry
2021 Four x Four, McClelland Sculpture Park & Gallery, Melbourne
XXXL, Two Rooms, Auckland
Reflection is Reflection, Daine Singer Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
In the Echoes, Two Rooms, Auckland (solo)
Full House, Hapua Street, Auckland
Frieze, Gowlangsford Gallery, Auckland
Spring1883, Daine Singer, Melbourne
Auckland Art Fair, Two Rooms Gallery
Intimate Interiors, Parlour Projects, Hawks Bay NZ
2020 Reading Hands, Two Rooms, Auckland (solo)
Recto / Verso, Hastings City Art Gallery, NZ (solo)
5he1L space, Auckland
New Works, Parlour Projects, Hawks Bay (solo)
My Funny Valentine, Missing Persons, Melbourne
2019 All The More Afraid, David, Melbourne (solo)
Summer Show, Weasel Gallery, Hamilton
Dogs are Playful, Neospace, Melbourne
Regarding the Wild, ChaShama, New York
2018 Commute to Compute, Vermont Studio Centre, Vermont, USA (solo)
Low Cloud, Parlour Projects, Hawks Bay(solo)
Winter Sun, Daine Singer, Melbourne
Brunswick Sculpture Centre, Melbourne
A Hush Fell, Collingwood, Melbourne
Colour & Line II, Tim Melville, Auckland
I like Anything, Tans Martial Arts, Melbourne
Passenger, Perera-Picco Artspace, Adelaide
Melbourne Art Fair with Tim Melville (solo)
2017 Find Your Way, Tim Melville, Auckland (solo)
Easy Fold, BUS projects, Melbourne (solo)
Beat Box Blues Harp, Daine Singer, Melbourne (solo)
ICON, Richmond Townhall Gallery, Melbourne
South, North, & Indented Head, Hugo Michell, Adelaide, curated by Richard Lewer
Bricolage, Adelaide school of Art, Adelaide (two-person)
2016 Structures of Viewing, Tim Melville, Auckland (solo)
Scales at Play, Neo Space, Melbourne (solo)
Eye Shots, Paulnache Gallery (solo)
Re - Purpose, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University Canberra, curated by Tony Oats
Middle Distance, Praxis Artspace, Adelaide
Chain of Mountains, TCB, Melbourne, curated by Tamsen Hopkinson and Jan Bryant
More Ground, Hanging Valley, Melbourne (two-person)
Painting Matter, Daine Singer, Melbourne
Painting Prog, The Pah Homestead, TSB Wallace Arts Trust, Auckland
2015 Digression, Tim Melville, Auckland, NZ (solo)
Wrestling Posters Cause Fights, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide (solo)
BillyCart, Installation, Brunswick Lake Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
Look/See, Chapter House Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
The Emperors New Clothes, Morrinsville Whare Toi Wallace Gallery
the smell of an oily rag, Fort Delta Gallery, Melbourne
The Emperors New Clothes, M Contemporary Gallery, Sydney
2014 A Beautiful Life, Paulnache Gallery, Gisbourne
Tools of the Trade, The Wandering Room, Brisbane
Lying In Space, Upstairs 30 Gallery, Wellington
The Aggregate & the Algorithm, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
Three Colours White, Tim Melville Gallery Auckland
Bootie Time, Das Boot, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
Frameless, Development Residency & Gallery, Auckland
LegRoom, Studio 40, Onehunga,Auckland
Pitch2, BaumgartenBrandt Rechtsanwälte, Berlin
Slug und Lettuce, Paulnache Gallery, Gisbourne (solo)
2013 Pictorial Grammar, Holborn Building Space, London
Starlight Kurzen, Baustelle Gallery ARI, Berlin
Build the | das Bild, Baustelle Gallery ARI, Berlin (solo)
2012 Who Moved My Cheese, Paulnache Gallery, Gisborne
Small Works Gallery, Brisbane
2010 Shit Hit The Fan, The Gallery With No Name, Auckland (solo)
Nicht So Schlimm, High Street Project, Christchurch, NZ
Residencies and awards
2021 Auckland Print Studio (forthcoming)
2021 Driving Creek Railway, New Zealand
2018 Vermont Studio Art Centre USA, Wallace arts trust
Represented by
Daine Singer Melbourne
Two Rooms, Auckland
Works held in prominent public collections in New Zealand and Australia
Rail Overlay Hoki Mai (1) 2021, Driving Creek Potteries collection, NZ
Rail Overlay Hoki Mai (2) 2021, Driving Creek Potteries collection, NZ
Transcend 2020, Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
Whose Afriad? 2019 Arthur Roe Collection Melbourne
Lacework 2018, Arthur Roe Collection Melbourne
Fight in the back streets 2017, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Its a place called space 2017, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Look behind you 2017, Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
Cool Change 2016, Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
Battle with Play 2016, Arthur Roe Collection Melbourne
Three Colours Blue 2016, Arthur Roe Collection Melbourne
5 Panels 2015, Arthur Roe Collection Melbourne
Red Lines 2015, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Ten seventeen 2015, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Identity parade 2015, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Rails 2014, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Shop front bottems 2014, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Its an electric 2014, Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki
Fraskito 2013, Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
Slug und lettuce 2013, Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
Motoboat 2012, Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
iballs 2010, Wallace Arts Trust, New Zealand
Bibliography
Reviews, publications, essays & interviews
2021 Erin Lee exhibition essay, Full house, https://www.the-art-paper.com/full-house/
2020 Review of Reading Hands exhibtion by John Hurrell for Eye Contact https://eyecontactmagazine.com/2020/05/arbuckle-abstractions
2020 Reading Hands, exhibition essay Laura Couttie
2018 Blind Carbon Copy, Publication essay by Simon McGlinn
2018 UN Magazine,Winter Sun at Daine Singer, review by Loni Jeffs https://unprojects.org.au/article/winter-sun/
2017 Middle Distance, catalog essay by Glenn Iseger-Pilkington
2016 Repurpose, Drill Hall, Australian National University Canberra. Publication essay by Anthony Oats
2016 Art Collector Magazine, issue 77, interview by Camilia Wagstaff
2016 More Ground (Matt Arbuckle & Robert Fielding) publication essay by Quentin Sprague
2015 Programme One, publication essays by Reece King, Emma Smith and Richard Fahey
2014 Dashing-way-with-the-abstract, New Zealand Herald, review by T.J. McNamara
Bio
Matt Arbuckle (b.1987, Auckland, NZ) splits his time living and working as a practicing artist between Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, New Zealand and Narrm, Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009.
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 dying 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 is represented by Two Rooms, Auckland; Daine Singer, Melbourne