Influential Interior design magazine Yellowtrace have written a feature article. Check them out for design inspiration and resources for the creative and curious.
http://www.yellowtrace.com.au/matthew-quick-monumental-nob…/
Limited Edition Prints at The Store by Fairfax
I am honoured to have my limited edition prints included in The Store by Fairfax, the new destination for showcasing Australia's creative talents. Its such an honour to be included alongside some of my artistic heroes such as Michael Leunig, Julian Meagher, Luke Cornish, Tim Storrier, Robert Doble, Matt Adnate and some bloke called Degas.
Backed by Fairfax Media, the parent behind The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Financial Review, this is the new destination for the best the country has to offer. Cheers, Alex McCulloch, for curating me into this elite selection.
https://www.thestore.com.au/pure-freedom
Exhibition at Metro Gallery Melbourne
Running from 17 August until 10 September, this show featured 19 paintings, the final works of my long running Monumental Nobodies series.
After painting 56 pictures in the series, and still loving the theme and with a long long idea list of pictures that still could be painted, I have made the very difficult decision to end the series.
Plastik Magazine
Plastic Magazine has a feature on my work, themes and life featured in the summer issue. http://www.plastikmagazine.com/feature/#/mathew-quick/
Plastik Magazine is an independent, award-winning visual, culture and arts magazine dedicated to new creative talents around the world, with a reputation for ground-breaking photography, fashion and editorial. Plastic is available in more than 50 cities around the globe, including London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
It's has been a long time coming, this one.. Got bumped from the last issue because Miley Cyrus got naked (again)for an exclusive Plastik shoo (as if anyone would be more interested it that than my paintings...) But then the timing couldn't be better actually, as this aligns neatly my next solo show (and my first in Melbourne for 8 years) which opens at Metro Gallery on August 18.
Making it matter!
A recent interview with Give It Mouth.
Give It Mouth is a platform dedicated to spreading the ideas of those making a difference. They subscribe to the (kinda radical) philosophy that creative thinkers can balance artfulness and commercial reality. And give it a voice. Or as they put it; give it mouth.
In the course of our interview, Dr Naomi Skeletonburg examined the phycology behind the process and uncovered some surprising parallels between my crashing a paraglider into a forest and life as a creative.
“Tell us your name! … once more … give it mouth!”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
Bliss Magazine, California
Featured in the September issue of BL!SSS Magazine. So great to be featured along with some of my creative heroes such as Kris Kulski, plus various hipsters, models and surfer dudes.
So Bad So Good
The Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald twin articles
Featured in the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald in both print and online editions.
Hellow webzine: Classical sculptures in our times
Hellow!
A log on art and life from Mexico.
Selected as favourite contemporary Australian artist
Widewalls have selected me as one of their favourite contemporary Australian artists. Widewalls is the ultimate resource for contemporary and urban art. They aim to provide a unique experience for its readers in form of in-depth and quality journalism.
This is what they had to say: The Melbourne-based Matthew Quick is one of those artists who release their works in series, which consist of pieces that are somehow interrelated and create a narrative collaboratively. Two series of paintings have brought him a great deal of attention – the Pure series from 2008, and more recently, the Monumental Nobodies. These series alone say more about the artist than anything else – he is a skillful craftsman, but a witty persona as well, apparently fascinated with mythology and history. The works from Pure series depict cloudy skies (awfully suggestive of symbolism, resembling eternity, Olympic gods perhaps, etc.), overlapped with a series of random inanimate objects. The other series is perhaps even more direct in its intent, representing the actual monuments from around the world, slightly modified by the artist. The well-known historical monuments are accompanied by objects and accessories from the modern life, which creates an ironical image that regards the significance of the fallen empires.
Zupi.
A webzine from Brazil. A translation from journalist Mylena Fontes is: The Australian artist Matthew Quick works mainly with classic painting, using very well the oil on canvas technique. Matthew plays with the image and aesthetic of classical sculptures. In this series he exposes a super contemporary theme with humor and criticism, where the statues are "victims" of an anachronism, a chronological inconsistency.
In UFunk, a French art and design webzine
Influential French webzine UFunk have done a feature, with the following to say: The Australian artist Matthew Quick continues to play with the image and aesthetics of classical sculpture with its fun and offbeat creations, remorselessly abusing Greek statues, the works of the Belle Epoque and other representations from antiquity to great reinforcement of anachronisms.
Booooooom!
Some numbers about Booooooom! 383,000 Facebook followers, 76,000 Twitter followers, 6.7 million Google+ followers, 126,000 Instagram followers. So good to be presented to that audience.
Albany Art Prize
The painting Land of the Free has been selected as one of 30 finalists in the Albany Art Prize. Now in its 9th year, the $25,000 prize continues to play an important role in the cultural and economic development of the Great Southern region.
The three judges were; Stefano Carboni, Director, Art Gallery of Western Australia; Michael Edwards, Director, Contemporary Art Tasmania; and Mark Stewart, Curator, Murdoch University collection, Western Australia.
It's an honour to be chosen for any curated prize and I am extraordinarily fortunate to have been selected for 74 major prizes. Ever wanting to refine my work, this picture has had an multi year gestation and was finally finished only the day before this competition closed.
The exhibition is on from 3 September - 16 October 2016 at Carol Pettersen Hall, Albany Town Hall, 217 York St, Albany WA
WOW x WOW guest writer
The team at WOW x WOW invited to be a guest writer and have my work featured on their site. It a great honour to be featured alongside so many of the great names in the contemporary art scene - who are defining the new visual language and how the future will see the present, one picture at a time. http://wowxwow.com/guest-blog/matthew-quick-gb
Subjects covered include: Influences and triggers, Shelly's Ozymandias, universal themes, the old masters and more
Radio Interview
Interview by Alex McCulloch on The Arts Show. The full interview can be streamed here: http://www.alexmccullochart.com.au/tag/matthew-quick/
Topic covered include: Influences, Cancer, painting techniques and some of the stories behind the paintings such as slavery, Julius Caesar and more
Upper Playground article
The Upper Playground has a story at http://www.upperplayground.com/blogs/news-upperplayground/8220-moments-of-clarity-8221-by-matthew-quick
Stanthorpe Art Prize
The painting The View From Above was selected from over 1400 paintings as a finalist in this year's Stanthorpe Art Prize. It will be on display at the Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Queensland, from May 26 to July 17.
Solo exhibition and book launch "Based on a True Story"
Opening 6pm Thursday November 12 at Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary,
Level 1, 66 King Street Sydney
Book Launch "Based on a True Story"
This handsome hard-cover, full-colour monograph covers the past 10 years of Matthew's work. Written by Dr Shireen Huda of the Art Gallery Of New South Wales, it's 144 pages long and includes over 180 paintings.
The book launch and exhibition opens at 6pm, Thursday November 12, 2015
Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary
Level 1, 66 King Street Sydney.