studio_exhibitions_news

'Urban Stories' opening night

2011-09-08T11:07:00.002+12:00

The opening night of my exhibition 'Urban Stories' went very well with lots of people coming through and some good discussion and feedback about my work. Thanks to all those who came along.

Wallace Trust Art Awards 2011

2011-09-08T10:36:00.005+12:00

The 20th Wallace Arts Awards ceremony went off very well on Monday night at the Pah Homestead in Cecilia Park. Having no car we hurried by public transport and consequently were a little late, as the bus there takes a very circuitous route.

Anita on the way to the event.

Sir James Wallace is here giving his speech alongside Len Brown the Mayor of Auckland. John Banks the ex Mayor also attended and the awards were judged by Philip Trusttum, Sara Hughes and Peter Gibson-Smith.

The paramount winner was Akiko Diegel. A detail of her work here shows a perspex box full of aspirin packets moulded into paper clip forms.

Some of the winners on the podium pose for a photo opportunity. The other winners were

Brydee Rood (Mull Ballon Wolke Kanal Projekt).

Matt Ellwood (Unconditional Love).

Bronwynne Cornish (Between a Rock and Hard Place).

Emil McAvoy (Helen).

Anita Levering (False Flat 6 Sap Green on Paynes Grey).

Philip Dadson (Headstamps II: Homage to the Silk Road).

'Skateboarder' oil on board 81 x 123 cm
My entry, 'Skateboarder' is in the Salon des Refuses located in the Long Gallery and it is being acquired by the Wallace Arts Trust.

Urban Stories

2011-09-04T13:12:00.004+12:00

My exhibition 'Urban Stories' opens on Wednesday 7th September at Northart Gallery in Northcote. The opening function is from 5.30pm - 7.30pm and the address is Norman King Square, Ernie Mays Street, Northcote Shopping Centre, Auckland North Shore.
There is plenty of parking off College Road.

'Bald man walking', 2011 oil on board (detail)

More details about this and other exhibitions can be found on Northart's website: http://www.northart.co.nz/

Wallace Arts Awards 2011

2011-08-25T13:03:00.003+12:00

I am happy to have been selected as a finalist again this year with my painting 'Skateboarder'.

The Wallace Arts Trust will be announcing the winners of the 2011 Awards on 5th September at the Pah Homestead, which is the home of the Wallace Art collection. The opening event is by invitation only but after that is open to all from 6th to the 16th September.

Information about the centre can be found here: http://www.tsbbankwallaceartscentre.org.nz/wallace-arts-trust/

Information about the Wallace Arts Trust can be found here: http://www.wallaceartstrust.org.nz/?s1=wallace%20art%20awards

Auckland Grammar Exhibition

2011-08-18T11:05:00.004+12:00

The Auckland Grammar School Exhibition is coming up on the 26th - 28th August and I will have five paintings in it. The preview evening requires tickets but for the other two days it is free.
See here http://agsartexhibition.school.nz/ for more information and for an online catalogue of the works under 'artists'.

National Contemporary Art Awards

2011-08-07T14:15:00.004+12:00

The Waikato Museum was host to The Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Awards 2011. The finalists exhibition opened on Friday 6th and runs until November 6th.

The winner Andre Hemer's work is a QR image of the google map location of Jackson Pollock's 'Blue Poles', can just be seen on the back wall through the opening below.

Mates from AUT, Lisa, Phillip, me and Joe with my entry, 'Woman approaching group'.

Jemma Skipper another AUT alumni with her entry, 'Wolverton Street, view 3', which was also selected for the finals of the awards.

National Contemporary Art Awards

2011-07-01T21:50:00.002+12:00

A recent painting of mine has been accepted as a finalist in the Bold Horizon National Contemporary Art Awards 2011. It is held at the Waikato Museum in Hamilton and the judge this year is John Hurrell. The winner will receive $15,000 and the finalist exhibition continues at the museum for three months which is a good stretch of time for any exhibition. It isa great museum and really well worth a visit.

Striding Figure

2011-06-22T22:25:00.003+12:00

A new painting of mine is hanging at Orexart in Upper Khartoum Place, Kitchener Street, Central Auckland. The new Glaister Ennor awards entrants exhibition is showing in the main gallery.
I tried to get a sense of the atmosphere of day for night photography in film-making which is a technique whereby a scene can be shot in bright sunlight but underexposed to make it look like moonlight. There is an artificiality about it which interests me.

Artists in Eden 2011

2011-03-25T10:07:00.006+13:00

The annual 'Artists in Eden' day at the Essex Reserve went off well last weekend. Organised by Eden Arts, it is a day when 40 artists work on a drawing or painting in the open during the day and produce a finished work which is then auctioned with two thirds of the proceeds going to community arts initiatives.

The weather turned out fine with no rain and the auction was very successful.

The works once complete are displayed on temporary panels before the auction.

My work is a composited Mount Eden street scene and is oil on gessoed board. I used traditional gesso sanded down to a smooth surface on hardboard (masonite).

Multi-Storey opens

2010-11-20T12:35:00.005+13:00

Multi-Storey opened on Tuesday and runs until 4th December at OREXart in Central Auckland.
The paintings can now be viewed on matthewcarter.co.nz

Multi-Storey at OREXART

2010-11-09T11:53:00.002+13:00

An exhibition of my paintings will be held on Tuesday November 16th along with Jennifer Mason's show at OREXART

2010-10-10T16:17:00.005+13:00

The Wallace Awards exhibition has been taken down from the Pah Homestead and has gone to Wellington to be set up at The New Dowse in Lower Hutt.
My painting, 'untitled (CP1)' is in the travelling exhibition.

This was the first of a new series of paintings exploring the multi-storey car park, which can be seen as a placeless space based on Edward Relph's ideas in his book, 'Place and Placelessness'.

2010-10-06T10:42:00.001+13:00

'untitled (cinemas)' is showing in Saatchis 'Showdown' on their website. Viewers can register a rating for each work:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/showdown/index.php?showpic=288242

The Last Hurrah

2010-09-25T22:37:00.004+12:00

The last North Shore City Art Awards was held at Mairangi Bay on Thursday. I had a painting, 'untitled (CP3)' in the finalists exhibition which is the third in my car park series.

Next year Auckland changes over to the Super City and so the North Shore City council will cease to exist. They have supported this arts awards for 19 years.

North Shore City Art Awards

2010-09-19T12:33:00.003+12:00

I have a painting accepted into the finalists for the North Shore City Art Awards.
The opening and awards evening is this coming Thursday 23rd September at the Mairangi Arts Centre. This is the North Shore City Council's premier Arts Event.
The arts Centre is near Mairangi Bay. Map on google
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Wallace Art Awards

2010-09-07T09:57:00.003+12:00

The Annual Wallace Art Awards finalists exhibition is now open and the winners were announced last night at the opening ceremony.
The Exhibition is open until 3rd October at the newly restored Pah Homestead in Monte Cecilia Park in Hillsborough.

Map of the location here: Google Maps
Entry to the Homestead to see the exhibition is free. There is also a cafe within the house.

I have a painting 'untitled (CP1)' in the Finalists Exhibition which will travel to Wellington after 3rd October.
There is a catalogue available for $10 in the hall.

The opening night on 6th September.

Wallace Art Awards Finals

2010-08-18T18:33:00.005+12:00

I am pleased to announce that one of my recent paintings, part of the multi-storey car park series, has been selected to be part of the finals of the Awards set up by the James Wallace Arts Trust. The exhibition of finalists is at The Pah Homestead and runs from 7th September to the 3rd October.
The Wallace Art Awards have been running for 19 years and are the largest art awards of their kind in New Zealand.

Auckland Grammar School Fundraiser

2010-07-30T12:08:00.003+12:00

The 2010 school fundraising exhibition will be happening 3rd - 5th September 2010.
The catalogue is now online at the school website. Follow the link to their homepage above.

Paint, process and materials

2010-06-08T16:23:00.008+12:00

Here's some information about my process and materials. I'm using the Schminke Norma range of oil paints almost exclusively at the moment and have been for about three years. Schminke is a German company with a great reputation and is praised by professional artists around the world.

I stretch my own linen canvases. I find the surface texture, durability and strength of linen to be far better than cotton canvas. They are sized with rabbit skin glue size and primed with Schminke primer, which is like a half chalk ground. Four coats of primer gives a lovely surface on which to paint. It has just the right balance of absorbency and luminosity.

This is a linen canvas which has just been stretched on a pine stretcher and then sized with rabbit skin glue. The glue size tightens the linen onto the frame by shortening it's fibres. It is a traditional size for painting on canvas or board and prevents any linseed oil in the paint from getting into contact with the linen fibres. Linseed oil over time would gradually rot the linen if there was no barrier between them.

After sizing, I then prime the linen with four coats of specialist primer. This gives a luminous white ground. Oil paints have transparency which varies depending on the pigment used each colour. So in light areas of painting the luminosity of the ground shows through the paint layers to some extent. In the photo below the weave of the linen can be seen. I like the unevenness and slight irregularity of linen compared to cotton canvas.

Here is the back of a large linen stretched on a hand made cedar frame. Cedar is an excellent choice of wood for large paintings as it is very light and very stable, so it's warping is minimal. It also has a lovely smell.

Studio set up

2010-05-27T09:16:00.005+12:00

My studio is fully functioning now although there is still some junk to clear out. The new bench I built has become a large painting trolley though rather than a work bench, and I'm using the pedestal as a work bench. Not as I intended but it is more practical not to have to clear everything off the work bench to stretch canvases because I am running both stretching and painting at the same time.

2010-05-12T22:28:00.002+12:00

The new website is now live.
Go to http://matthewcarter.co.nz
to view paintings and photo composites.

New website

2010-05-04T17:56:00.005+12:00

My new website is being launched this month. It is being designed by Blue Perez at Create Folios. On the site will be paintings and photo composites running on a light box using flash. There will also be background info, biography and contact details.

The url for the site is at
matthewcarter.co.nz

Anthony Harper Awards

2010-05-04T15:11:00.008+12:00

I've entered the painting 'urban rift' for the 2010 Anthony Harper awards, held in Christchurch at the COCA gallery. It has been accepted for the exhibition which will open on Tuesday 25th May and runs until 4th July.

'urban rift' is composited from some of the buildings around Auckland city, some from the buildings in Fort Street again.

Other news is that a new website is being built and once up and running will be at
http://matthewcarter.co.nz

Studio reorganise

2010-04-22T18:00:00.004+12:00

After moving back from using the AUT studios, my studio at home was a complete mess with stuff all over the floor and covering every surface, so to reorganise it I have built a bench based on one at AUT 3D workshop. It is the pink (treated) timber left over from building a room a couple of years ago.

Below is the bench finished apart from a coat of paint. I also built some shelves and a tool board on the wall behind it which will save me from bending down to the floor all the time. The bench I can use for making, stretching and preparing canvases and boards, and also to hold painting materials during painting.

New painting

2010-03-28T09:59:00.004+13:00

I'm working on a painting this week in the studio. It is a view of Newmarket looking from above the Skycity cinema entrance. What interests me here is the orientation of the self to that being viewed and how that orientation can be challenged.
Go to http://matthewcarter.co.nz for the final painting.

Eden Arts gala

2010-03-20T16:59:00.006+13:00

'Artists in Eden' is the Eden Arts Trust gala event of the year. It is an open air exhibition of artists at work. This year, 2010, it was held on 20th March at Essex reserve in Mount Eden. The works are auctioned at the end of the day to provide funds for community initiatives.

Here is my finished work. It is oil on gessoed board.

2009-11-20T23:08:00.001+13:00

Installation/Hanging for Graduation Show

2009-11-20T23:02:00.001+13:00

Detail from 'Untitled (6)'

Graduation Exhibition

2009-09-13T16:19:00.017+12:00

The exhibition for all visual arts graduating students at AUT: Masters; PGDiploma and BVA and Honours students will be held at AUT galleries-
Galleries 1 and 2 and all five floors of the Art & Design building on St Paul Street
and Gallery 3 on Mount Street. My work will be in Gallery 2. on St Paul Street.
(If you click on the above links Google maps gives you a street level view of the buildings. You can rotate the camera around 360 degrees by using the little wheel top left, and even look up into the sky.)

Thursday November 12th will be the opening night at 5.00pm. Drinks and snacks will be served on three levels.

Look forward to seeing you at the opening.

Dates of exhibition: 12th - 14th November.

Mailing List

2009-08-31T21:19:00.002+12:00

If you want to be on my mailing list, so I can let you know of exhibitions or events, please email me at the email address at the right and I'll put you on the list.

Awards ceremony

2009-08-12T22:56:00.004+12:00

The Glaister Ennor Art Awards ceremony was held at OREX art Gallery in Khartoum Place, Central Auckland.

Myself, in front of the winning painting. 'Walking Space'.

Above are the winners and the sponsors of the awards at the opening awards ceremony.
From left to right are: Peter Thompson (of Barfoot and Thompson), Bibi Ashger (winner of the Glaister Ennor staff choice award for her painting 'The Leopard'), Matthew Carter, John Daly-Peoples, Jack Porus (of Glaister Ennor) and Karen Crisp (who won the Barfoot and Thompson award for her photograph 'Lake Tikitapu').
All the winner works can be seen at the OREX art gallery website.

2009-07-31T16:23:00.004+12:00

I am really pleased to announce that I have won the Glaister Ennor Art Award on Tuesday with my entry 'Walking Space'. The opening was very lively and the exhibition runs until Saturday. This means I will have the great opportunity to exhibit at OREXART gallery next year.

Many thanks to Glaistor Ennor and Barfoot & Thompson for supporting the awards and also the tutors at AUT.

Opening tonight

2009-07-28T15:40:00.001+12:00

The awards ceremony and opening of the Glaister Ennor art awards exhibition is happening tonight at 5.30pm.

Glaistor Ennor awards

2009-07-11T10:52:00.010+12:00

I have been nominated for the upcoming Glaistor Ennor Graduate Art Awards along with 3 others from AUT and 4 each from the 5 art colleges in Auckland, making a total of 20 artists. The exhibition is held at Oedipus Rex Gallery in Auckland.
The opening is on Tuesday 28th July at 5.30pm and the winners will be announced there. Last year
http://www.orexgallery.co.nz/artist_pages/GlaisterEnnor.htm the award was won by a painter, Kirsten Roberts.
The exhibition will run from Monday 27th July to Saturday 1st August.

Coming Soon - new photo-composite site

2009-07-05T13:44:00.006+12:00

I am starting up a new site for photo composites which will be available to buy. I will produce them as limited editions of between ten and twenty prints for each image.
I have access to a 60 cm wide professional epson printer at AUT university and so I can print them up to 60 cm across. Here is the link to the site: http://photo-composites.blogspot.com

Friends of Auckland Art Gallery Student Exhibition

2009-07-04T22:21:00.006+12:00

The Friends of Auckland Art Gallery had their annual student exhibition opening on 2nd July.
It is at AUT Gallery 3 at 39 Symonds Street, Auckland.

This year the theme of the exhibition was 'Sustainability' and it is open until Friday 10th.

More photos of the opening night here

Anita, the model for 'Steps' and Joe floating in space in front of 'Steps'.

HK 1

2009-05-20T21:55:00.001+12:00

photo composit using painting and photographic sources. I also made a moving image composite from this as part of a tryiptych which I showed at AUT's Talk Week.

Photographic composites

2009-05-08T19:13:00.006+12:00

I've been using compositing techniques using 2 1/2D software for some time as prep for painting. Here are a series of photo composites which were originally made with a painting in mind but I have developed them in their own right.

Photo-composites now have their own site. It is at: www.photo-composites.blogspot.com

Post Grad Diploma Show

2008-11-07T11:55:00.005+13:00

The studio presentation above was the final decision on the hanging on one of the studio walls. They turn out coincidentally to be in the chronological order that they were painted in from left to right, however the main consideration was a potential narrative which might form in the mind of the viewer.

Destruction and Renewal

2008-08-18T19:09:00.005+12:00

The Friends of Auckland Art Gallery have an annual Student Exhibition which took place this year at AUT's Gallery 3 in Symonds Street.
I had two paintings in the show; 'Urban Park 1 [Girl in Drive]' and 'Urban Park 3'
Don Binney, one of the patrons spoke at the opening along with the Director of the Auckland Art Gallery and Desna Jury of Department of Art & Design, AUT

Photos by John McIvor, Auckland Art Gallery photographer

Stairwell

2008-06-27T15:55:00.000+12:00

oil on canvas, 300 x 300mm
$210

Lake House Cafe exhibition

2008-05-17T18:01:00.002+12:00

My exhibition at the Lake House Cafe has opened and will be open for three weeks until June 1st. In the main gallery is the NZ International Body Arts Awards photographic exhibition.
Mine, being at the cafe means that one can enjoy an excellent cup of coffee with cake or lunch while looking at the paintings.

The Lake House is also a fascinating building built in 1890's which was once sited at Takapuna beach and physically moved in chunks to it's present site in 1996.

The Lake House Arts Centre

New work & new website

2008-02-14T16:49:00.004+13:00

Go to recent paintings & cityscapes for new work.
Also, I am building a new website which I am building using Freewebs. However building it is not as fast as it should be!

multi states [SP]

2007-12-11T19:00:00.005+13:00

Oil on canvas, 1001 x 1001mm

Desi & Mandy

2007-11-29T11:41:00.003+13:00

Oil on canvas, 1000 x 1000mm

Kate

2007-11-18T13:40:00.002+13:00

Oil on canvas, 760 x 760mm

Murray Martin

2007-11-04T10:58:00.003+13:00

Oil on canvas, 1000 x 1000mm

Adam Portraiture Award finalist, 2008
The National Portrait Gallery

Suzuki Kotaro

2007-10-13T22:09:00.004+13:00

Oil on canvas, 1000 x 1000m

Self Portrait in two mirrors

2007-09-28T21:06:00.003+12:00

Oil on canvas, 760 x 760mm

Tom playing on Playstation

2007-07-10T17:35:00.001+12:00

Oil on canvas, 600 x 500mm

2007-07-04T19:25:00.002+12:00

Anita standing
Oil on canvas.
Size: 18" x 24"

Detail

2007-05-25T22:09:00.002+12:00

Self portrait
Oil on board
Size: 24" x 24"

Joe

2007-02-08T18:51:00.001+13:00

Charcoal pencil on cartridge paper - unframed
Size: 13"x 6"