Matthew Carter is an artist based in Auckland, New Zealand. He graduated from AUT University in 2008, with a Masters in Art & Design and went on to win the Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Award in 2009. Since graduating, Matthew has exhibited his paintings widely and has been a finalist in a variety of awards. His work features in many public, private and corporate collections across Europe, USA and Australasia, including the TSB Wallace Trust collection in Auckland.
“My painting attempts to engage with shifts in time and space by looking at how these relate to the spatio-psychology of the city. Networks, cyberspace, architecture and urban planning change the nature of the city’s places and questions about geographical location and the importance of places provide another focus of interest for my painting. I often bring together unconnected elements, buildings and figures, and composite them to create a new, invented place. I also use high or unfamiliar and/or impossible views to examine how a viewpoint might enable a psychological shift as well as spatial and temporal ones. The work also aims to question what makes a place authentic or inauthentic”
Matthew Carter is currently showing his solo exhibition, Outsider- until 30 March
View Matthew’s past exhibitions at Föenander Galleries
Matthew Carter | Belinda Griffiths | Ramon Roberston
Matthew Carter & Ramon Robertson | Exopolis