Studio Update: July/August
Hello everyone, It's going to be a hectic few months for me so I wanted to give a bit of a studio update a cheeky apology for likely being a bit absent over...
A haven or a prison?
Over the last five years I've spent a lot of time at wildlife sanctuaries of various descriptions, often visiting expressly to photograph an animal I don't...
Art/Money #3 - am/am not
Apologies up front - this is a rambly one and sort of covers a lot of ground without doing very much. As an artist, if you want to make a living, you can...
Art/Money #2 - Audience monopolies
Before we dive into art and money #2, I wanted to share three points of context: When I started this newsletter, there was a pervasive sense that Instagram...
Twenty five dollars
of the financial year here in Australia, which is a time a lot of people dread, find boring or forget about, but I really like. It's an odd thing, I...
Studio update: June
This is the second email I'm sending about what I'm working on. I don't know if this is interesting - though a few folks did get back to me after the first...
Everything has its season
Everything has its season is something I say a lot, to me it means acknowledging that there's a time for effort, a time for rest, a time for beginnings and a...
Grabbing the bull by the horns
A few months ago I had 4 weeks off from work and spent that time making new art and doing publishing things. Since that time something I've been wondering is...
Craft
There's a gallery I visit once a month or so near where I live and work. I like the guys that run it and like their shows and sense of play with the work...
Metrics/Measures
I don't quite know if everyone is like me in this way, so apologies if it's a little weird. Something that I find very motivating and de-stressing is knowing...
Nature doesn't move in straight lines and neither do I
At some point while I was in University I decided that I wanted to get into growing food. I really cannot remember exactly why, but I think I was reading a...
Studio Update: May
I wanted to make these a monthly thing as I hope updating people about what I'm working on is interesting. I always find the behind the scenes look at other...
Posters
I've become pretty interested in posters recently. I think I'm drawn to the way they are both very creative and very commercial. The more I do things as a...
Caffeine
So I don't really drink caffeine. Not out of any particular health ideals, but just because most things with caffeine in them are bitter (coffee, tea) or...
Regional Language
Two experiences recently sort of expanded my mind a little in regards to how I think about what my influences are in terms of art making. The first was when...
The playful insanity of art
Something I often think about when I'm out making art is what on earth some random hiker or traveller would make of what I'm doing. This picture is from a...
Studio Update: March
Hello everyone, I've been wanting to try a studio update once a month for a while now, but I kept forgetting. For a while I thought it'd be fun to do it as a...
Perfect practice
When I was in school I was really into music. Mainly listening though I went through times where I played a lot too. When I first started playing guitar I...
Take Away
I think that we, generally, know a lot more than we realise. Often little nuggets of wisdom are buried deep, things we know but aren't conscious of. One...
The right kind of busy
As I was walking to the supermarket yesterday I started wondering to myself 'Matt, why do you enjoy things that are slightly inconvenient?'. The supermarket...