B. Southampton, U.K, 1985. Living and working in Melbourne/Naarm.
Matthew Austin is a Melbourne-based artist exploring interior landscapes through multidisciplinary practices. Drawing on ancestral memory, personal narrative and queer orientations, his work integrates mediums such as painting, sculpture, collage, and sound to create installations that invite reflection on the intersections of identity, memory, and the living body.
Solo Exhibitions
2023, Sediments, Five Walls Gallery, Melbourne
2021, Complacency, Coffee Peddlr, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2024, Interior Landscape, Martin Myer Arena, VCA, University of Melbourne.
2023, Double Denim, VCA Arts Space, Melbourne.
2022, Self: In Relation, Gestalt Therapy Australia, Melbourne.
2019, Durational Demise, Intermission, Melbourne.
2017 Is Roy Coming?, Budd Street Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne.
2016 Studio 16, LaTrobe College of Art and Design – Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2009, Sculpture Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Fine Art Education
2024 - Masters of Contemporary Art (First Class Honours), Melbourne University (VCA).
2019 – Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University.
2016 - 2018 Single Subjects: Studio art and ideas, Studio Exhibition Project, Latrobe Collage of Art and Design, Melbourne.
2014-2015 Single Subjects: A Collage a Day, Assemblage Workshop, The recontextualising of Objects, City College of San Francisco.
2014 Single Subject: Painting Abstraction, Californian College of the Arts, San Francisco.
2019 Single Subject: Sculpture, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.
Collections
Private Collections in the United States, Adelaide & Melbourne AUS.
Studio
VCA, University of Melbourne. Rebox Gallery (2021 -2022)
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