Black Flora
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archived
18 Jan
–
11 Feb
2012
Matt Whitwell
Summer Residency
Immerse your body and psyche in an upside down geological vista; a circus for your senses; an alchemical mishmash of sights, sounds, delights and a whole other gauntlet of wonderful sensations.
Whitwell plays with the senses in his work, most notably our sense of space/time and the internal perception of phenomena. He turns his hand at sound, installation, self-publishing, performance and handcraft.
Exhibition Essays
Untitled
By Ollie Blackmore
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Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtsey of Lance Cash.
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Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtsey of Lance Cash.
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Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtesy of Lance Cash.
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Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtesy of Lance Cash.
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Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtesy of Lance Cash.
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Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtsey of Lance Cash.
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Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtsey of Lance Cash.
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Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtesy of Lance Cash.
About the artist
Matt Whitwell graduated from Massey University, Wellington, with a BFA in 2010.
From 2012 onwards Matt/Kemi Whitwell (Ngāi Tahu) has been part of Kemi Niko & Co. alongside Niko Leyden. Their community-engaged, public art projects focus around crafting salvaged materials to celebrate backcoutry architecture.