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Matt Joils
@mattjoils.bsky.social
Visual artist in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa
Master of Creative Practice Unitec 2022
Book launch at @rm.gallery off K Rd Friday eve 6pm

Gemma and I have been working on a photo project that's come together into this stunning hand bound publication.

Across Sydney and Auckland incidental moments serve as inspiration for abstract painting, a visual language of the streets
November 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Napkin drawing from a slow shift

#art #drawing #abstractart
October 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Lean into chaos

#collage #art #drawing
September 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
September 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
September 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Limned Peril Installation view at @meanwhile_gallery in Pōneke. Documentation up on the gallery website
August 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Limned Peril is now open at @meanwhile_gallery in te Whanganui-a-Tara/ Wellington
Thanks for having us!
July 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Taking things slowly this winter

#painting #contemporaryart #popart #WIP
July 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
May 13, 2025 at 8:03 AM
May 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Collage central over here

#collage #art #drawing #artnewzealand
May 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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April 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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April 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
April 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Paul McCarthy, Dopwhite, Oil stick, charcoal and collage on paper, 2009

#contemporaryart #painting #drawing #collage
April 30, 2025 at 11:22 PM
April 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
April 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
something from '22

Acrylic, collage and enamel on cotton duck
April 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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April 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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The Regulatory Standards Bill is working its way through government processes despite having failed in three previous iterations.

It proposes far-reaching neoliberal reform in line with ACT Party ideology. #nzpol
Proposed bill 'an ideological project that must be stopped' | E-Tangata
“It is extraordinary that this minister is asserting the power to redefine core constitutional principles to govern future polities, just as he did with the ‘principles of the Treaty’.” — Emeritus Pro...
e-tangata.co.nz
April 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Treaty Principles Bill scrapped but the fight for Te Tiriti is just beginning - lawyers and advocates say
Treaty Principles Bill scrapped but the fight for Te Tiriti is just beginning - lawyers and advocates say
Legal experts and Māori advocates say the fight to protect Te Tiriti is only just beginning - as the controversial Treaty Principles Bill is officially killed in Parliament.
www.rnz.co.nz
April 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM