Matthew Carter
Biography
“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"
Works
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Grafton Bridge , 2025 Sold -
Tangihua St Beach Rd, 2025 Sold
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51 High Street, 2025 Sold
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Beach Road Bus stop, 2025 Sold
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Beach Road, 2025
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K Road, jtc Queen St, 2025 Sold
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Pitt Street Theatre , 2025
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North Wharf, Wynyard, 2025 Sold
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Walk
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Boundary Post
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Fly Whisk
Exhibitions
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Matthew Carter - Unscripted
20 Feb - 10 Mar 2025Matthew Carter’s new body of work: Unscripted is a continuation of his documenting of the city and . In contrast to previous works where the sense of time and space...Read more -
Matthew Carter - New Wave
10 - 30 Mar 2023The term mise-en-scène is often used in discussion and criticism of cinema. The term literally translates from French as ‘setting the stage’, though it has a nuanced meaning when used...Read more
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