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Shaun Matthews is a Wellington-based photographic artist whose work has engaged with New Zealand’s native forests since moving to New Zealand from the UK in 2002 where he had previously worked in professional photographic labs. Shaun completed a Bachelor of Design in Photography (1st class Hons) at Massey University in 2013. He has been running his own horticultural business for the last 14 years, and working part time as a photographer since finishing his degree. Currently he is house photographer for the Adam, Enjoy Public Art Galleries and Dowse Art Museum in Wellington.
As a photographer his primary interests lie in landscape and fauna, engaging with New Zealand’s forests and nature as essential living and changing sites. I am fascinated by nature’s ability to create a chaotic yet delicate balancing act within its own networks continually regenerating and renewing itself.
 
Solo exhibitions:
2014 Lest We Go Ashore Toi Pōneke Gallery, Wellington
2010 Passing By Nature Blackmore Jean Gallery, Wellington
 
Group exhibitions:
2017 Where the River Bends, curated by Harry Culy, excerpts from  Prospects Fearful with Caroline McQuarrie, In Situ Photo Project, Christchurch
2017 Upstream Art Trail curated by Gabby O’Connor, Central Park, Wellington
2016 To The Aether with Jonathan Kay & Bonny Stewart MacDonald, 30upstairs gallery, Wellington
2016 From The Aether with Jonathan Kay & Bonny Stewart MacDonald, Courtenay Place Park light boxes, Wellington
2011 Light & Truth with Alastair McAra & Deidra Sullivan. Toi Pōneke, Wellington
2010 Locale with Lynda Garrod & Kirsty Woods. Toi Pōneke, Wellington
2009 Alt: Contemporary photographers explore alternative processes The Engine Room and Photospace Gallery, Wellington
 
Publications (included in):
2016 From the Aether Published on the occasion of the Courtenay Place Park light box Exhibition From the Aether, Courtenay Place, Wellington
2015 Enjoy occasional journal The Dendromaniac Wildness in the Garden of Empire (2013).