Toi Pōneke Arts Centre is delighted to announce Matilda Fraser as the 2020 Toi Pōneke Visual Artist in Residence. 

Matilda Fraser (BFA Hons, 2012, Massey University; MFA 2016, University of Auckland) is an artist and writer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa, with a multidisciplinary research-driven practice that deals with circulation, exchange, gifts, colloquial histories and the broken promises of language. More generally, her work draws on local histories to wonder about and investigate how they continue to affect us in the present.

Her work is installation-based involving film, sculpture, writing, layered vocal compositions, short-run publications, handmade fabrications of mass-produced objects, and interactive automatons.

Recent shows include Poet No. 2 at The Booth, Gus Fisher Gallery, 2019; The Race Marches Forward on the Feet of Little Children, Blue Oyster Art Project Space, 2018; I digress, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2017; The Eight Hours Plan, Mason’s Screen, 2017; New Perspectives, Artspace, 2016. In 2015, she undertook the Blue Oyster Summer Art Writing Residency, producing a series of nested texts entitled Against Efficiency, about the nature of attention economies. In 2016, she was invited to travel to London to exhibit as part of the Sony World Photography Awards.