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Matt Palmer
Matt Palmer’s New Zealand is iconic, yet intimate. His paintings explore the role desire and intimacy play in the recall of personal history and development of memory. Matt is an expat New Zealander, living in Australia, and draws upon experience and a developed sense of personal mythology in depicting the land from afar.
A background in filmmaking informs Matt’s painting practice. His compositions are cinematic, atmospheric and narrative driven. His brush work plays in the space between the painterly and photographic.
Matt’s highly personalised landscapes capture a moment in time, where light and spatial arrangement work together. This taps into something distinctly New Zealand, yet strangely universal. Through roads, dilapidated buildings and fence posts are playfully set against the vibrancy and rawness of the natural landscape. Perhaps this exposes both the tension and congruity of our relationship with the land.
Matt’s father is well-known New Zealand landscape painter Stanley Palmer. Matt was brought up experiencing the New Zealand countryside from multiple angles, exploring its far reaches as he went on his father’s frequent painting excursions.
Matt had his first show of paintings in 2013, and four subsequent sell out exhibitions. Three of his paintings have been reviewed favourably and his work features in a variety of significant public private, corporate collections across Australasia, Europe, Asia and the USA.
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Artworks by Matt Palmer
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Ridgeline Ohinewairua
See Artwork »Acrylic on Board, Framed.
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Spooners Hill Looking West
See Artwork »Acrylic on board, framed.
Courtesy of Föenander Galleries
Matt Palmer’s New Zealand is iconic, yet intimate. His paintings explore the role desire and intimacy play in the recall of personal history and development of memory. Matt, an expat New Zealander, living in Australia, draws upon experience and a developed sense of personal mythology in depicting the land from afar.
A background in filmmaking informs Matt’s painting practice. His compositions are cinematic, atmospheric and narrative driven, while his brush work plays in the space between the painterly and photographic. His highly personalised landscapes, capture a moment in time, where light and spatial arrangement work together – tapping into something distinctly New Zealand, yet strangely universal. Through roads, dilapidated buildings, fence posts and other civilizing signs are playfully set against the vibrancy and rawness of the natural landscape, perhaps exposing both the tension and congruity of our relationship with the land.
Matt’s father is the well-known New Zealand landscape painter Stanley Palmer. Matt was brought up experiencing the New Zealand countryside from multiple angles, exploring its far reaches as he went on his father’s frequent painting excursions. Matt’s creative upbringing lead him Elam School of Art where he was taught and a further inspired by Denys Watkins; following which he moved to Sydney in the mid-nineties to explore a career as film director, working extensively on short films and music videos for which he has won a range of awards in Australia and overseas.
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Tawharanui Looking West
See Artwork »Acrylic on board, framed.
Courtesy of Föenander Galleries
Matt Palmer’s New Zealand is iconic, yet intimate. His paintings explore the role desire and intimacy play in the recall of personal history and development of memory. Matt, an expat New Zealander, living in Australia, draws upon experience and a developed sense of personal mythology in depicting the land from afar.
A background in filmmaking informs Matt’s painting practice. His compositions are cinematic, atmospheric and narrative driven, while his brush work plays in the space between the painterly and photographic. His highly personalised landscapes, capture a moment in time, where light and spatial arrangement work together – tapping into something distinctly New Zealand, yet strangely universal. Through roads, dilapidated buildings, fence posts and other civilizing signs are playfully set against the vibrancy and rawness of the natural landscape, perhaps exposing both the tension and congruity of our relationship with the land.
Matt’s father is the well-known New Zealand landscape painter Stanley Palmer. Matt was brought up experiencing the New Zealand countryside from multiple angles, exploring its far reaches as he went on his father’s frequent painting excursions. Matt’s creative upbringing lead him Elam School of Art where he was taught and a further inspired by Denys Watkins; following which he moved to Sydney in the mid-nineties to explore a career as film director, working extensively on short films and music videos for which he has won a range of awards in Australia and overseas.
