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Matt Palmer multi-media exhibition “Meandering” at The Lane Gallery

Contemporary New Zealand artist Matt Palmer is hosting a multi media exhibition at the Lane Gallery in Auckland opening the 7th of July 09.

About the artist

Matt Palmer is a commercial film director and a veteran of the Australian advertising and New Zealand film industry. In the early nineties, his background in painting and music video production gained him the attention of the film industry. Since then his mix of strong visuals combined with a simple, storytelling style, has earned him a range of awards and a steady stream of projects in Australia and overseas. In recent times Matt has turned towards photography and printmaking to bridge the gap between his painting and his film work. This is his second solo exhibition in Auckland.

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About the Exhibition

“And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now” Trent Reznor

In “Meandering” Matt has created a series of landscapes that make a direct connection to his feelings about his past and his home. Their ghost-like appearance and painterly image intrigues and invites us to reminisce about the places we’ve been too before. This exhibition combines printmaking, photography and painting to create a series of visual metaphors that set out to be both haunting and evocative. They set out to externalise, to paint a picture of the hidden, the way we feel deep down about New Zealand’s dark and mysterious landscape. Matt Palmer say’s “I’m a person who is expatriated from his birth place. My need to go home and explore the landscape, visit the places I have been to before or have always imagined going to in the past has become overwhelming”. By playing with the line between memory and reality Palmer has creating images of his home that express what he feels about the place he grew up in, the place he belongs too and can never leave completely.

Meandering opens at The Lane Gallery July 7
July 7 - July 25

The Lane Gallery
33 Victoria Street East
Auckland
www.lanegallery.co.nz

For more on Matt’s work visit - www.mattpalmer.com.au.

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