Black Flora
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
Read online
Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtsey of Lance Cash.
Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtsey of Lance Cash.
Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtesy of Lance Cash.
Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtesy of Lance Cash.
Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtesy of Lance Cash.
Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtsey of Lance Cash.
Matt Whitwell, Black Flora, 2012. Image courtsey of Lance Cash.
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.