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Matthew Whiteman

Matthew Whiteman is a Pōneke-based writer of poems and essays. In 2025, he was the Liz Stringer Curatorial Intern at New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (First Class) in Art History from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

    Matthew Whiteman on CIRCUIT

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    Monstrous, bloodied, and box-dyed

    Exhibition review
    By Matthew Whiteman · October 30, 2025

    Like any horror movie aficionado, Matthew Whiteman finds vulnerability, monstrosity, and cartharsis in The Brood, an exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum that traced a dark sensibility in recent art from Aotearoa.

    Monstrous, bloodied, and box-dyed
    A black and white image of water

    shards from a broken mirror

    Essay
    By Matthew Whiteman · March 25, 2025

    Matthew Whiteman mines chance and the unconscious in Claus Lucas' Three Studies (2024), in the first of the Masons Screen Summer Writing Commissions for 2025.

    shards from a broken mirror

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    dialogues
    which reflect our unique, contemporary
    South Pacific context.