Matthew Galloway

YEAR OF RESIDENCY
May - August 2025

Born in Christchurch, Matthew Galloway now lives and works in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. He is a current doctoral candidate at Elam School of Fine Arts, and holds an MFA from Ilam School of Fine Arts (2012).  He has shown widely at many leading contemporary art institutions around Aotearoa. His work has been included in a number of significant international exhibitions in Latin America and Europe. 

Galloway presents a mode of art making that can be best described as documentarian and historiographic. Working both within and beyond of the confines of the gallery, his work is broadly interdisciplinary, and strongly informed by his background in design. Past works include sculpture, installation, film, wall drawings, image and text, artist books and publishing.

Whilst in residence at Parehuia, Matthew intends to dedicate time to develop new threads of two ongoing projects and create a new moving image work. The residency will afford him access to specific research material and manufacturing techniques only available in Tāmaki Makaurau — specifically for producing digital tapestry works related to his data sovereignty research.