Lovely article about my work in D-Railed magazine. Thank you. http://www.drailedmag.com/2017/11/16/matthew-quicks-monumental-nobodies-investigates-human-follies-throughout-history/
Solo Show, Sydney
My next solo show "Bling" launches soon at Nanda/Hobbs Contemporary in Sydney in their awesome new gallery space just around the corner from White Rabbit Gallery.
Pictured here is Grandfather's Axe.
The opening night is Thursday 16 November at Nanda/Hobbs, 12-14 Meagher St, Chippendale NSW 2008.
You should come. Drink. Talk. Maybe even look at some art...
Manning Art Prize
To address what I felt was a gender imbalance in my Monumental Nobodies series where I (unconsciously) favoured male statues, the last 14 paintings featured female subjects. As the original subjects are classical statues, many of them are actually naked. Maybe this is sexism. Maybe sensuality. But conceptually, I certainly was not being gratuitous. All the nudes that appear in this series have been chosen to make specific points.
Conveniently, this also mean I had a picture suitable to enter this prize, the theme of which was The Naked & Nude.
Very happy to have been selected as a finalist with my picture Behind The Curtain.
And Im in with some spectacular company; Peter Churcher, Dagmar Cyrulla, Prudence Flint, James Guppy, Stewart MacFarlane, Nick Mourtzakis, Sally Ryan, Michael Simms and fellow Nanda Hobbs stablemate, Gria Shead.
Sydney Morning Herald Art Critic John McDonald, is judging this prestigious prize, and it will be on show at the Manning Regional Gallery, Taree, NSW from September 2, 2017
The Nillumbik Prize
The Witching Hour been selected as a finalists for The Nillumbik Prize 2017. Celebrating contemporary works of excellence, it will be on dispay at Montsalvat in the Barn Gallery from 1 June - 30 July
Calleen Art Prize
I am honoured to announce that the painting Unicornettto has been selected by the jury as a finalist in the 2017 Calleen Art Award. This is the fifth time I have be so fortunate and privileged to have been selected for this prize.
It will be on exhibition at the Cowra Regional Art Gallery at 77 Darling Street, Cowra NSW from Sunday 7 May until Sunday 18 June.
North Sydney Art Prize
I'm honoured to be selected as one of the finalists in the North Sydney Art Prize 2017, with the painting The Clarity of Hindsight.
Its on from 11-26 March 2017 at the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability, 2 Balls Head Drive, Waverton NSW
The Opening and award ceremony is at 2pm on Saturday 11 March and there is a public program of artist talks and workshops on Saturday 18, Sunday 19, Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March
Bluethumb Art prize
Perhaps my favourite paintings of the whole Monumental Nobodies series, Home of the Free, has been selected as one of the 30 finalists in the $10,000 Bluethumb Art Prize. It will be exhibited at No Vacancy Gallery at 34-40 Jane Bell Lane, Melbourne from 20 January - 29 January
With 1140 artists submitting exclusive originals, this new prize is bigger than the Archibald. The exhibition was selected by an eclectic judging panel of 12 industry experts, including Penny Griggs, General Manager of SALA (South Australian Living Artists Festival); June Mills, Indigenous music star, visual artist and traditional owner of Larrakia land; and qualified art curator (and Real Housewives of Melbourne star) Gina Liano.
Fishers Ghost Art Prize
The painting The Last Lap has been selected as a finalist for the $20,000 2016 Fishers Ghost Art Prize.
Previous recipients of the prize include Elisabeth Cummings, Khaled Sabsabi, Justene Williams, David Bromley, Marion Borgelt, Raquel Ormella and Philip Wolfhagen.
This will be the first time this picture has been exhibited in New South Wales, where I most regularly show. So if you are interested to see it in person, make your way to the Campbelltown Arts Centre from 29 October until 15 December.
Yellowtrace Design feature story
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.