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Matt Arbuckle, Wendelien Bakker

MATT ARBUCKLE, WENDELIEN BAKKER

I’m Going in a Field Two Rooms 9 October–21 November 2026 Auckland
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Matt Arbuckle’s work is grounded in the walks he would take around Pukekawa, Auckland Domain while his child was being treated in the nearby hospital. The photographs and paintings included in I am going in a field index a relationship between care, colour, and pathways that are revealed through repetition. Often working outside, Arbuckle’s paintings layer grass clippings and differently-weighted pigments, so that some colours sink in the solution, creating a hierarchy that conceptually corresponds to the medical test strips that would dictate the outcome of the day during this time.

Such ideas around parenting, time and the environment underpin Wendelien Bakker’s sculptural sundials and spun-straw labyrinth. Pocketfuls of raisins and dried fruit are bronze-cast as talismanic objects that gesture to a loss of control over time, replacing the numbered hours on the sundial. This impulse, to slow time down, is also embedded in the spiralling labyrinth. A labyrinth is a kind of parent-child form, where the way through is nestled inside the walls of the structure, suggesting a nurturing or protective journey through life.

Text by Jane Wallace, September 2026. Courtesy Two Rooms, Auckland

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Exhibition view: Matt Arbuckle, Wendelien Bakker, I’m Going in a Field, Two Rooms, Auckland (9 October–21 November 2026). Courtesy Two Rooms.
Exhibition view: Matt Arbuckle, Wendelien Bakker, I’m Going in a Field, Two Rooms, Auckland (9 October–21 November 2026). Courtesy Two Rooms.

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Two Rooms is a contemporary art exhibition venue located in a converted warehouse in Central Auckland, New Zealand. Opened in August 2006, Two Rooms presents a program of residencies and projects by leading International and New Zealand contemporary artists. The building houses two exhibition spaces, the Project Room and the Long Room.

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Two Rooms contemporary art gallery in Auckland New Zealand
Two Rooms
16 Putiki Street, Newton, Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 360 5900
http://www.tworooms.co.nz

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