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New Zealand jeweller, weaver and artist (born 1966)

Gina Matchitt
Born1966 (age 58–59)
Rotorua, New Zealand
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUnitec Institute of Technology
Massey University
Websiteginamatchitt.com

Gina Matchitt (Te Arawa Whakatõhea) is a New Zealand Māori jeweller, weaver and artist. Her work combines Māori pattern and language with contemporary pākehā brands and symbols.

Biography

Matchitt was born and raised in Rotorua, and graduated from Unitec Institute of Technology with a diploma in design (jewellery) in 1994. She returned to Unitec as a lecturer in the School of Design from 1996 to 1999, teaching in the areas of body adornment, metal history and Māori arts. Her first solo exhibition, Ngā Whiriwhiri, was held in 1996 at Fingers Contemporary Jewellery Gallery in Auckland. Her Merchandise portfolio, representing external (Western) influences on Māori culture, won a Seppelt Contemporary Art Award in 1999 and was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. She graduated with a masters of Māori visual arts from Massey University in 2011.

She and her family lived in Washington, D.C. from 2007 to 2012, then Rome for two years before returning to New Zealand.

References

  1. Shelton, Lindsay (19 November 2015). "$200 or less, and ready to wrap – Toi Pōneke's final show of the year". Wellington.Scoop. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  2. ^ Jackson, Lucy. "Feeling Uncomfortable: An Interview with Gina Matchitt". The Pantograph Punch. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  3. "Matchitt, Gina". Find NZ Artists. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  4. ^ Brown, Deidre. Merchandise: Jewellery by Gina Matchitt. Creative NZ.
  5. ^ "Gina Matchitt (born 1966), Te Arawa, Whakatohea". Tai Awatea. Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  6. "Gina Matchitt". Auckland Art Gallery. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
  7. City Gallery Wellington (16 February 2012). "Te āhua nei: form and content". Scoop. Retrieved 16 November 2019.

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