Sumer announces representation of Matthew Galloway

The Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington-based artist joins the gallery's growing stable.
Matthew Galloway, Megawattasaurus (after Sid Scales) (detail), 2024, acrylic on MDF, painted steel. Courtesy of the artist and Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery. Photo: Ted Whittaker

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland gallery Sumer has announced its representation of Matthew Galloway.

Galloway’s cross-disciplinary practice—documentarian and historiographic—engages contemporary issues and their roots in the recent past, particularly the history of energy, the legacy of liberalism and the alternative political economies latent within these. Informed by a background in design and publishing, his works deploy editorial methodologies and tools. Past works include sculpture, installation, film, wall drawings, image and text, artist books, and other forms of publishing. He considers his art as a means by which to activate and challenge orthodoxies, and present alternate paths.

Presently there are solo exhibitions of his work on view in both Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellingon and Ōtautahi Christchurch: Infrastructure: power, politics and imagination, at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, until 30 June; and Empty Vessels, at Ilam Campus Gallery, until 21 June. His work has also been shown this year at Hastings Art Gallery, Heretaunga, Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland, Tāmaki Makaurau, and Paludal, Ōtautahi.

Galloway’s first solo exhibition at Sumer is scheduled for early 2025.

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