ItThe style of Mathew's paintings is hard to pin down. He is influenced by the cultures of where he lives. When he was living in Tallinn, Estonia he became a little obsessed with painting the main local Russian souvenir, the Matryoshka. The Matryoshkas Mathew painted were nothing like the ones you buy in a souvenir shop. The artist likes to look at quirky parts of cultures and explores them via painting. Now living in Greece his paintings are comical observations of Greece and it's people. Mathew's paintings often tell stories. The stories normally are about serious issues done with a humorous twist. Most of his earlier paintings were done with acrylic paint as the quick drying time meant less wet paintings hanging about the house. Now Mathew lives in Greece he shares an amazing beach side studio, where he can scatter many drying oil paintings happily.
Education Centre for the Performing Arts, Adelaide, Australia, 1998 - 2001 Diploma of Art, Theatre Design. Central School of Art, Adelaide, Australia, 1995 - 1997 Painting and drawing certificates. Solo Exhibitions ResideneSEA. Heralion, Greece 2015 Grecotel Palace Athena, Athens 2015 Apokorosi Arts Festival, Chania, Greece. 2013 Chania Mosque, Chania, Greece 2012 St. Georges Gate, Heraklion, Greece 2012 Avant Grade, Crete, Greece 2011 Teo Teatre, Tallinn 2011 Masu Gallery, Tallinn 2010 Tam Gallery, Tallinn 2009 Plate Tower Gallery, Tallinn 2008 Other Works on paper. Heraklion, Greece 2018 Solid Art. Heraklion Greece 2018 Zeus and the Muses. Chania. Greece 2016 Dienstag Abend 85. Austria. Vienna. 2016 Monitorfest Heraklion. Greece. 2016 Gallery Thing. Ireland, Bailibrough. Group exhibition 2016. Dienstag Abend 83. Group intervention. Heraklion 2016 Kluckyland. Group exhibition. Dienstag Abend 85. Vienna 2016 Monitorfest. Group exhibition. Heraklion 2016 Athens Voice, Cover of the magazine January and February 2015. March 2016. 'Cretativity' Feature length documentary. Mathew was featured alongside 6 other artists living in Greece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QvGtHTHvAE Tam Galerii, Tallinn, ‘Children of Tibet’ 2010. Group exhibition. Greek Consulate of Estonia, commissioned a painting to donate to the Tartu University’s permanent collection’ ‘Everyday Life in Ancient Greece’. 2009 Burns Super Charity, Two paintings donated to the Burns Super Charity auction at the House of the Brotherhood of Black Heads 2009 Eesti Paevaleht, Painting entitled, ‘Mutton Dressed as lamb’ used in an article in the Tallinn newspaper 2009 Burns Super Charity, Two paintings donated to the Burns Super charity auction at the Swiss Hotel. 2010 Mathew is a qualified Theatre Set and costume Designer and has designed the sets and costumes for the following productions. Alexis Steeves & Rain Saukas’ “How quickly these accidents”. Design consultant. 2011 Cid Pearlman/ Performance Projects. Tallinn. Costume designer 2010 Laughter on the 23rd Floor. New Theatre, Sydney. Neil Simons play. Set designer. 2008 Julian Gets Married. Short Film. Director, designer. 2006 Train. Short film. Set designer. 2005 Dance in the Forbidden City. Costume designer. 2004 Cosi Fan Tutti. Travelling opera. Co- Opera. Set designer. 2004 Adelaide Parklands Strategy. Conference. Concept designer. 2002 King Lear. Lightning Strikes Production Company. Se and costume designer. 2002 Dance for the Y2K. Costume designer. 2000 Moon Spirit Feasting. Opera. Adelaide Festival of Arts. Assistant designer. Many solo and group design jobs in film, theatre and dance. 1998 – 2001 Flamma Flamma. Adelaide Festival opening night ceremony. 1998. Design |