GINA MATCHITT

Email: ginamatchitt@gmail.com
Aotearoa/New Zealand

Tribal Affiliations

Ngti Rangitihi, Te Arawa
Ngti Ngahere, Whakathea

1994
Graduated  Unitec School of Design, Auckland
Craft Design Diploma (Jewellery)

2011
Graduated Masters of Mori  Visual Arts, Massey University, New Zealand

2017

Post Graduate Diploma - Museums and Heritage Studies, Victoria University of Wellington

Employment History

June 2022 

Project Coordinator, City Arts Team, Wellington City Council

April 2021 - November 2021

Senior Tutor, Toioho ki Apiti, Mori Visual Arts, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Manawatu Campus

July 2019 - March 2020

Blumhardt/ Creative New Zealand Curatorial Intern - The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Wellington

September 2016- June 2022

Gallery Host, City Gallery, Wellington 

January 2016 - December 2018

Research Assistant, Te Papa Tongarewa

March 2015 - December2015

Curatorial Assistant- City Gallery Wellington

September 2013
Attendant at the NZ pavilion, Venice Biennale
Bill Culbert, Front Door Out Back

December 2006 – February 2007
Lecturer –Maori Art history – summer paper, School of Art History, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

February 2005 – September 2006
Studio Lecturer - Jewellery/Drawing/ Sculpture, Arts and Visual Maori Arts,

1996-1999

Lecturer- Maori Art History, Jewelleryand Metal History

Unitec School of Design Auckland, New Zealand

1998
Guest lecturer  Jewellery Moves an exhibition of contemporary jewellery,
Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland

1998
Conference Co-ordinator of Korero A Te Whatu, Craft Conference, Unitec School of Design, Auckland, New Zealand