matthew’s story

Matthew has been drawing ever since he can remember. His life started as an artist in 2005 when he commenced studying Arts, Crafts and Design at South West TAFE.

Matthew’s works have constant themes of the people who are closest to him and self-portraits. He also likes painting wind farms/windmills, wallabies, and cityscapes inspired by travel.

Matthew works with acrylic paint on linen and paper. He draws with fine liner pens on paper. He also paints acrylic paint on plywood as part of his process to make sculptures.

Matthew thrives on painting ‘super’ large works. His largest work on linen is 9.2 x 1.9 metres! His largest street mural was 12 x 4 metres!

Matthew was chosen to exhibit his linocut in the National Gallery of Victoria for the Melbourne Now Exhibition in 2023.

in 2024 become a two-time Wynne Prize finalist at the Gallery New South Wales , finalist in both the Darling Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and Lester Prize at the Western Australian Museum.

Matthew is proud of his achievements which include Finalist in the 2021 Archibald prize in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, having his work covering a Melbourne and an Adelaide Tram, having art work in the ArtBank collection, City of Melbourne Collection, Macquarie Group Collection, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Art Collection, Art Gallery of Ballarat collection Bendigo Art GalleryCollection, and the National Gallery of Victoria Collection

Matthew is often heard saying “I like to paint to make people happy”.