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matthew
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1963 Born London, UK | |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2010 | Resonance, fireworks gallery, Brisbane | |
| 2009 | AURORAL, Block projects, Melbourne | |
| 2008 | From
the air, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Blue: a group show, fireworks gallery, Brisbane |
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| 2007 | George
Petelin Gallery, Gold Coast Greenhill Galleries, Perth Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 2006 | Two
Fields, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
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| 2005 | Christine
Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Greenhill Gallery, Perth Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
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| 2004 |
Lines III, fireworks gallery, Brisbane Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney Greenhill Gallery, Perth, WA |
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| 2003 | Christine
Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
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| 2002 | Unforseen,
fireworks gallery, Brisbane Greenhill Gallery, Perth, WA Ben Grady Gallery ACT, Canberra |
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| 2001 | Tim
Olsen Art Dealers, Sydney Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne |
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| 2000 | Tim Olsen Art Dealers, Sydney | |
| 1999 | Christine
Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney |
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| 1998 | Moments
in Civilisation, The Vault Contemporary Art Space Bundaberg Arts Centre, Queensland Mappings, James Allen Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
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| 1996 | Christine
Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Of One, Of Many, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney |
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| 1995 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1994 | Room
Exhibition, Imperial Hotel, New Delhi Room 32, Regents Court Hotel, Sydney |
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| 1993 | Studio Exhibition, Sydney | |
| 1992 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne | |
| 1991 | Studio Exhibition, Sydney | |
| 1990 | Studio Exhibition, Sydney | |
| 1989 |
Studio Exhibition, Sydney Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne |
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| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | ||
2009 |
Sculpture
+ Works on Paper fireworks gallery Brisbane |
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| 2008 | Contemporaneous, Australian Contemporary Painting 1, Wangaratta,Victoria | |
| 2007 |
Points of Departure, Tobey Fine Arts, New York Views on Abstraction, Hill Smith Gallery, South Australia Tactile Imagination, Design Research Processes, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney Utopian Visions & The slump of Paradise, Block Projects, Melbourne |
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| 2006 |
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong Salon, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart |
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| 2005 |
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, ¬¬Hong Kong Stanley Art Prize, Stanley, Tasmania |
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| 2004 |
Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Buildings, Carlton, Melbourne Lines III, fireworks gallery, Brisbane |
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| 2003 |
ART PARIS, Carrousel de Louvre, Paris Fresh Paint, Greenhill Galleries, Perth Cube + Nodrum + Abrahams, Cube Gallery, Adelaide Depth of Field, Shepparton Art Gallery, VIC & MUMA, Melbourne |
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| 2002 |
Good Vibrations, Heide Museum of Art, Heidelberg Exposition collective, Conseil General de Loire Atlantique, Nantes, France Towards Colour, McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin VIC Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney Greenhill Galleries, Perth Lines II, fireworks gallery, Brisbane |
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| 2001 |
ART PARIS, Carrousel de Louvre, Paris Australie, Visages d’un continent, Galerie Visage de l’Art, Marly-le-Roi Voyages dens la matiere, Atelier Claude Cerf, Paris Love Colour, Studio 91B, Adelaide Whitish Christmas, Ben Grady Gallery, ACT |
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| 2001-3 |
Hermanns Art Award, national travelling exhibition Abstraction: Spirit, Light, Pure Form Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
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| 2000 |
Accents Australiens, Espace Adamski Designs, Paris Melbourne Artfair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton The Exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Regional Gallery |
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| 1999 |
Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Espace Eiffel Branly,
Paris on any given day, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Queensland Exposition Australie, Bastille, Paris, France |
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| 1998 |
Propositions Australiennes, Gallerie Luc Queyrel, Paris Le Temps du Reve, Bioliotheque municipale, Le Perreux-sur-Marne |
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| 1997 |
Espace Beziers, Beziers, France Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam Devoured by Paint, Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney |
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| 1996 |
Abstraction Now, Geelong Regional Gallery, Victoria Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries, Sydney Aer Phoste, Dublin, Ireland |
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| 1995 |
Icon of our Times, Salon Natasha, Hanoi, Vietnam 3x3, Touring Residencies/Sites, Sydney, Christchurch, Auckland, Berlin, Canberra & Beijing Works on Paper - A Selection, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Moet And Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries of Australia Hidden Treasures S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney |
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| 1994 |
Bet Your Life II, Annandale Galleries, Sydney House, Canberra, curated and co-ordinated by the artist Re-placing Australian Painting, Rosinis & Test Tube Gallery, Auckland NZ |
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| 1993 | Moet And Chandon Touring Exhibition, State Galleries of Australia | |
| Contemporary
Australian Painting; Works From The Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection,
Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre Australian Perspecta 93, Art Gallery of New South Wales |
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| 1992 |
Future City - Art & Architecture, Bond Store, Sydney Alphabet/Haemorrhage, Performances from the Black Box - assistant to Mike Parr, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney |
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| 1991 |
Over East, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western
Australia Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney |
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| 1989 |
Fresh Art, S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney William Dobell Foundation Art Prize, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney Fishers Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown City Art Gallery |
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| 1988 |
Seven New Artists, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Ariennale, EMR Gallery, Sydney Australian Contemporary Art Fair 1 (ACAF), Melbourne Faber Castell Drawing Prize, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney |
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| 1987 | Mori Gallery, Sydney | |
| 1985 |
New South Wales Travelling Art Scholarship Exhibition Faber Castell Prize For Drawing, Rex Irwin Gallery, Sydney |
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| COLLECTIONS | ||
| AIS
Insurance Collection Holmes à Court Collection, Perth Allen, Allen & Hemsley, Sydney Hyatt Hotel, Perth Artbank, Sydney Macquarie Bank Macquarie Bank Australian Wheat Board, Melbourne Mallesons Stephen Jacques, Melbourne BHP Collection, Melbourne Moorilla Museum & Art Gallery, Tasmania Bundaberg Arts Centre, Queensland News Corporation Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu State Bank, Victoria Gandel Group, Chadstone, Melbourne Victor and Loti Smorgon Collection, Melbourne Faber Castell Collection, Sydney Visy Industrial Packaging, Melbourne Freehill, Hollingdale & Page, Melbourne Corporate collections throughout Australia and private collections in Australia, Cologne, Munich, New York, Madrid, Seoul and Vancouver, Canada |
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| COMMISSIONS | ||
| 2005 |
Glenroy Learning Centre, in association with McGauran Gianni Soon
Architects, Melbourne Hue, in association with Clement Jackson Burrows & SC Land Developments, Melbourne |
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| 2004-05 | Moment, Multiplex, Architects Wood Marsh, Consultants Turpin Crawford Studio, Sydney | |
| 2004 | Emanation Still Life, Book Cover design, for “The Cooks Companion”, Stephanie Alexander, in association with Penguin Group. | |
| 2002 | Sunfield, Stage I, Stage II, Stage III, Australian Wheat Board, Melbourne | |
| 2002-3 | Yellow House Screens, in association with The Yellow House & Philip Bartlett Projects, Sydney | |
| 2001 | Seasons, 4 Panels, Chadstone Shopping Centre, Melbourne | |
| 1997-8 | Babylonian Frieze, MG Garage, in association with PJ Developments and Alex Tzannes Architects, Sydney | |
| AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS | ||
| 2008 | Australia Council Barcelona Residency,Spain | |
| 2002 | Cite des Artes International Artist Residency, Paris | |
| 2001 | Artist in Residence, Bundanon, New South Wales | |
| 2000 | Arts Victoria, Travel Research Grant, Gabo Island, Victoria | |
| 1999-00 | Parks Victoria Artist in Residence Program, Pettys Orchard,Templestowe, Victoria | |
| 1998-99 | Artist in Residence, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Queensland | |
| 1995 | Travel Research Grant Australia Council (V.A.C.B.) | |
| 1993 | Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown City Gallery, New South Wales | |
| 1988 | Faber Castell Prize for Drawing | |
| PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Ingrid
Perez Matthew Johnson’s Circles of Light, Australian Art Collector,
Issue 34 Oct – Dec 2005 Ashley Crawford Matthew Johnson: Peregrination, The Age Review, Saturday Oct 16, 2005 Martin Shub Art Right Now, Exhibition News, www.gallery.discoverymedia.com.au Annabel Dean Swatch this Space, SMH July 21, 2005 Peter King Catalogue Essay, Greenhill Galleries, 2005 Betsy Brennan Vogue Living Apartments, 2004 Ashley Crawford Catalogue Essay, Christine Abrahams Gallery, 2003 Karen Hall Catalogue Essay, Depth of Field, Shepparton Regional Art Gallery, 2003 Geraldine O’Brien News and Features (Yellow House Project), Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 2003 Karen Hall Catalogue Essay, Tim Olsen Gallery, 2003 Robert Nelson Photography and Painting in Cahoots, The Age, Jan 25 2003 Sandra McLean Take Your Sunnies. Article, The Courier Mail, Mon. 28 October 2002 Zara Stanhope Catalogue Essay, Good Vibrations, Heide Museum of Art, 2002 Harry Kampianne A lA Decouverte del’Art Australien, Arts Actual, 2000 John Peter Brakewood Review, Art Actual, 1998 Neville Western Review, West Australian, June 2002 Michael Eather Lines II, Catalogue essay, 2002 Carol Marando Amateurs Dominate Drawing Prize, Review Faber Castell Prize, Eastern Herald, 1/9/88 Elwyn Lynn Review of Faber Castell Prize, Weekend Australian, 3/9/88 Ronald Millar Review of solo exhibition at Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Herald, 5/7/89 Australian Elle Young at Art, May 1990 Sandra Murray Over East, Catalogue, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth 1991 Betsy Brennan Vogue Living, April 1992 Judy Annear Moet & Chandon Touring Catalogue, 1993 Felicity Fenner Looking for Life Support, Sydney Morning Herald, July 1994 Felicity Fenner Review of Moet & Chandon, Sydney Morning Herald Sept 1993 Davina Jackson Future City, Art & Architecture, Exhibition Catalogue 1992 Bruce James Review of Australian Perspecta, The Australian 9 Oct 1993 John Kavanagh Youthful Vigour in Perspecta, Business Review Weekly 22/10/93 Natalie King Australian Perspecta '93, Exhibition Catalogue, AGNSW Victoria Lynn Australian Perspecta 93, Exhibition Catalogue, AGNSW Ewen McDonald Contemporary Aust’n Painting: Works from Allen, Allen & Hemsley Collection, 1993 Paul McGillick An Elegant Perspecta, Australian Financial Review, 22 Oct 1993 John Neylon The Discreet Charm of the Moet Award, Art & Australia, Vol1, No31 Spring 1993 Nicholas Baume Room 32, Art & Text 1995 Rita Carlos Replacing Australian Painting, Planet Magazine, Jan95 Elwyn Lynn Review of Moet & Chandon Prize, The Australian, 24/2/95 John McDonald Review of Moet & Chandon Prize, SMH, 15 Feb 1995 Paul McGillick Review of Moet & Chandon Prize, Financial Review, 26 Feb 1995 Harford, Sonia Matthew Johnson, The Age, 25 April, 1995 John McDonald Review of One of Many S.M.H., May 1996 Bernard McAll Catalogue essay for Christine Abrahams Gallery 1995 Sabastian Smee Review of exhibition at Olsen Carr, S.M.H. 1999 Simeon Kronenberg Catalogue essay, Christine Abrahams Gallery, March 2001 Andrew Frost Review of exhibition at Christine Abrahams Gallery, Australian Art Collector, March 2001 Terry Ingram Christies Contemporary Auction, Financial Review May 5 2001 |
