John Mateer

John Mateer is a writer, curator and poet. Since the 1990s he has contributed to almost all Australian art magazines, as well as to Frieze and Asian Art News. He curated the large scale exhibitions Invisible Genres for the John Curtin Gallery and In Confidence for Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Invisible Genres included William Kentridge, Candice Breitz and Wendelien van Oldenbourgh with Australian artists, and In Confidence presented Australian artists alongside the South-East Asian artists Simryn Gill, Hayati Mokhtar and Lynn Lu . His latest books are Invisible Genres: Two Essays on Iconoclasm with Arvi Wattel (Curtin University) and a volume of poems, Joao (Giramondo).

Photo: Daniel Terkl

Works By John Mateer

GHOSTED!
John Mateer reviews Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson’s ambitious attempt to re-write Australian art history from a transnational perspective, illuminating the conceptual and categorial dilemmas that have beset the discipline since its inception.
12 Dec. 2024
Memoir of a Neighbourhood
'The neighbourhood, as I have started to record it, has started to fade into nostalgia.'
15 May. 2022
Chairs and Empty Huts
It is in the worlds of design and architecture that the word Bauhaus is most familiar today. Bauhaus is sometimes taken as a synonym for ‘Modern’. The contribution of the Bauhäuslers and their lesser known colleagues in Australia – Elenore Lange,
17 May. 2020

Works Featuring John Mateer

‘The Conundrum of the Instant’: on John Mateer
John Mateer, over a long career, has been a poet of distance and locale, working with a continental sense of poetics, traversing land and sea in an inquiry into the nature of an historically-framed instant.
10 Mar. 2019
Dissolution and Reclamation: Unbelievers, or ‘The Moor’ by John Mateer
Places are, of course, not exchangeable, but in Mateer’s roaming imaginary they become, at least to some extent, drawn into a kind of codification of broad historical tendencies and movements. This constitutes a way of rethinking traditional narra...
11 Apr. 2014

Read

Stay Updated

Community

Subscribe

John Mateer

Works By John Mateer

GHOSTED!

Memoir of a Neighbourhood

Chairs and Empty Huts

Works Featuring John Mateer

‘The Conundrum of the Instant’: on John Mateer

Dissolution and Reclamation: Unbelievers, or ‘The Moor’ by John Mateer