Sumer is delighted to announce its representation of Te Whanganui-a-Tara-based artist Matthew Galloway.

Situated both within and beyond of the confines of the gallery, Galloway's cross-disciplinary practice—documentarian and historiographic—engages real issues presented within contemporary culture and our recent past. Informed by a background in design and publishing, his works deploy similar such 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, 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.

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

Matthew Galloway (b. 1985, Ōtautahi Christchurch) lives and works in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. He is a current doctoral Candidate at Elam School of Fine Arts, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, and holds an MFA from Ilam School of Fine Arts (2012). His work has been widely exhibited at many of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading contemporary art institutions, including Christchurch Art Gallery, Adam Art Gallery, Te Tuhi, Artspace Aotearoa, The Dowse Art Museum, and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. His work has also been included in a number of significant international exhibitions, including Provincia 53. Art, Territory & Descolonization, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, and Melfas Línea orgánica, Museo de arte Contemporáneo del Sur, Buenos Aires (both 2017). He was a selected participant in the Cripta747 Studio Program, Turin (2019); ART Tifariti: After the Future, Art and Human Rights meeting in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps, Tindouf, Algeria (2016).

Installation views: Infrastructure: power, politics and imagination Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2024 Image courtesy of Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery / Photographer: Ted Whitaker Website