Matt Arbuckle b. 1987, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Arbuckle has a BFA from Unitec Institute of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2009). Arbuckle’s practice is a process-driven exploration of place, representing landscapes that are conceptualised through their very making. Through an experimental practice that favours process over outcome, Arbuckle uses elements of traditional Japanese shibori dying techniques to create abstract compositions by wrapping, twisting, folding and draping the fabric over found surfaces and structures. The resulting paintings use depth and movement to trace and reveal abstract memories, imprinting the experience of place into the artwork.

Arbuckle’s work is held in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki; the Wallace Arts Trust Collection; Driving Creek Potteries, New Zealand, and the Arthur and Suzie Roe Collection, Melbourne. In 2022 Arbuckle was a recipient of the Melbourne Art Fair’s large-scale installation commission Beyond, supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants and the Melbourne Art Foundation.

In 2025 RIM Books published Place to Place, a new book bringing together Arbuckle’s works from 2019 - 2025, focusing on recent exhibitions: Bow Echo (2023) at Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland and Subduction and Abduction (2024) at Daine Singer, Melbourne, with essays by Lucinda Bennett and Emily Cormack.