About Matt Payne
Matt Payne is a young Auckland painter and mosaic artist whose work is quickly gaining a significant following in the New Zealand art world.
With a passion for New Zealand’s great outdoors, art and sport, Matt comes from a background of high level sportsmanship. He represented New Zealand in Waterpolo at Commonwealth and World Championship level, which he complemented with a degree in Sport and Recreation in earlier years.
Since 2004, Matt has devoted himself to art. After graduating from the Whitecliffe College for Fine Arts he has been working full time as an artist and has been featured in many acclaimed shows, exciting much interest amongst art lovers.
Much of Matt’s work is inspired by a love of New Zealand’s landscapes and coastlines, which is reflected in dramatic compositions and depicted with vivid colour and extraordinary attention to detail. He has a fascination with the relationship between colour, light and form and how these are perceived by the eye. Matt approaches these elements as if working with a code, aiming always to capture the essence of whatever it is he is painting, whether that is an emotion, a feeling or a mood.
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Represented By
Exhibitions
2025
Parnell Gallery – Salt and Light III with Sara Langdon, 1-15 April 2025
Bergman Gallery, Rarotonga – Araura Enua, 10-29 November 2025
2024
The Artist’s Room- 20th Anniversary Joint Show, 17 August – 31 August 2024
2023
Flagstaff Gallery – 30 x 30 Group Show, 14 December – 28 December 2023
Parnell Gallery – New Works, 30 May-13 June 2023
The Little Gallery – Meet the Artist- Small Original and Print Exhibition, 28 January – 12 February 2023
2022
The Frame Workshop – Artist Talk, 26 November 2022
Artrite – Te Henga Sunset Final Screen Printing Evening, 22 November 2023
Parnell Gallery – Longitude: North to South with Caroline Bellamy, Michelle Bellamy, Sara Langdon, and Richard Shanks, 18 October – 1 October 2023
2021
Parnell Gallery- Salt and Light II with Sara Langdon, 11-25 May 2021
2020
Parnell Gallery – Water’s Edge, 30 June- 14 July 2020
2019
Parnell Gallery – Blue Skies, 20 August – 3 September 2019
2018
Parnell Gallery – Salt and Light with Sara Langdon, 10-24 April 2018
Bergman Gallery – Infinite Horizon, 3 September- 6 October 2018
Gallery 33 – joint exhibition with Claire Beynon, 6-20 October 2018
2017
Parnell Gallery – From Coast to Peak, 15-29 August 2017
2016
Parnell Gallery – Light, 8–22 March 2016
2015
Parnell Gallery – Anticipation, 24 March–7 April 2015
Art Matakana – Coast to Coast with Helena Blair, Megan Daniels, Sonia Fraser, Matt Payne, Donna Massey, Jill Perrott, 6–24 December 2015
2014
Parnell Gallery – solo show
2013
Parnell Gallery – Land & Sea 12–26 March 2013
2012
Art Matakana – solo show
2011
Depot Gallery – solo show
NZ Art Show, 29–31 July 2011
2010
Verde – solo show
NZ Art Show – group show, 30 July–1 August 2010
Te Henga Sunset print receives Supreme Award at the Pride in Print Awards 2023
Together, Matt, Glenn and the team at Artite Screen Printing, were the winners of two gold medals including the Supreme Award at the Pride in Print 2023 awards night on Friday 23 June 2023.
It was the 30th anniversary of the event with over 500 guests present in the Cordis Hotel.
Pride in Print: Judges Comments:
An incredible example of true print craftmanship and artistic collaboration, this screenprint was a genuine labour of love.
It required the hand-mixing of 33 colours and production of film layers, which the artist needed to sign off each time. With colours prone to change during repeated pulls, only 30 could be completed at a time before a clean up was required, with colours needing to be remixed, film layers reproduced and artist sign off sought again.
Taking three weeks and about 2000 hand pulls to complete, the result was an original screenprint, produced with great detail and wonderful colour consistency over all areas.
So many things can go wrong in all of those processes, yet it was so beautiful – we were blown away.
