Chantel Matthews is a New Zealand Contemporary Artist of Māori and English descent. With an interest in how women hold space and time her artworks mobilise the 'everyday' as a storytelling mechanism with objects being described as sculptural moments that explore social, political and cultural concerns through her own subjectivity as a woman, mother, artist and wahine Māori,
Works and resides in Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa, New Zealand ( Ngāti Hounuku, Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Ikaunahi, Tainui Awhiro)
Exhibitions
PONO: The potential of making something that leads to nothing, TeTuhi Gallery, 2021
Master of Visual Arts Graduating Show, St Paul Street Gallery, 2021
At the Foot of the Maunga: Whanui Auckland Arts Festival, 2020
What's inside matters: Silo6, 2019
The Artist and the Undertaker: Auckland Art Gallery, 2019
Emergent: See Lake House Arts Gallery 2019,
Bystander of Tomorrow: Nathan Homestead Manurewa 2016.
Atamira Maori in the City: Shed 10, Auckland City 2013,
Ferrari 2013,
Muka: Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae 2012.
Awards
AD21 Award - Toi Māori Award. For cultural contribution to mātauranga Māori & Indigenous knowledge
Vā Moana Pacific Spaces Postgraduate Student Award Scholarship 2021
Waiheke Small Sculpture Benefactor Award 2021
AUT Head of School Award 2019
BC Collective Indigenous Award 2019
Media
PONO at Te Tuhi - EyeContact 2022
Waiheke Small Sculpture Award 2021
Photo Sam Hartnett
Commissioned by Te Tuhi