Matthew Browne, Morii 20, 2020. Vinyl tempera & oil on linen, 455 x 405mm. Courtesy: the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland.

Matthew Browne appears to shed the often self-serious position taken by geometric painters, alongside correspondingly cool, unemotional readings of their work. He taps into legacies of abstraction and deconstructs them, while pursuing a personal, highly visceral approach. His work encourages audiences to slow down just as he does – to open spaces in which to speculate and contemplate. Browne’s practice touches the trajectories of abstraction, while taking audiences on a tangent uniquely his own. – Text excerpt by Emil McAvoy

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