Australia: the land of fences
I'm obsessed with fencing and fences right now. I think that they are the most mundane expressions of a sense of inclusion, exclusion and control that most...
Getting older is getting easier
When I was a teacher, there was a segment of my colleagues who would often lament that working with teenagers made them feel old. Responding to the warp...
Adam Sandler
During COVID I got really into Saturday Night Live. I don't know why, it's not always funny, but there was something about watching compilations of sketches...
What we feel when
I'm off to Sydney tomorrow and Hawaii the day after. It's my first non-art-making holiday (and first international trip) since early 2019. For 2019, 2020,...
No Silver Bullets - money and art part 2 (fuck it!)
One of the things I want to do is show The Killing Sink in places that aren't Australia. To me, this seems like it would be a big step up and allow me to...
No Silver Bullets
One of the things I want to do is show The Killing Sink in places that aren't Australia. To me, this seems like it would be a big step up and allow me to...
Sophmore Album
I think the question that I ask myself in my art life is 'what's next?'. With art making, we often fixate on the wrong end point, and this can cause some...
I like maps but not Maps
A friend asked me to write about why I don't like to use navigation apps in cars and I figured 'why not? it's a whimsical enough topic', so here we are....
End of something, start of something else
Hey - so I think this is my, like, 5th email that's been about starts and ends in some form. I didn't realise that I've been thinking about things in this...
Good enough. Great. Perfect.
I've been making new work recently and it's sort of being amazing and disappointing all at the same time. The amazing part is being out, energised, engaging...
Bad rock climbing
When I lived in Canberra a friend of mine from teaching said 'hey come rock climbing'. She is a really accomplished climber, as is her husband (Australia's...
Low and Slow
I wanted to share a bit about how being an artist is going financially but I’ve had a surprisingly busy week and just haven’t had the chance to crunch the...
There's a season to everything
One of my favourite things to say is 'there's a season to everything' and it strikes me that it's a slightly more poignant way of saying 'everything ends'....
Heavy Rocks (it's a long one)
On Friday last week I went to my first live music concert in a long time. Not just because of COVID, but just in general I don’t go to much live music....
Five Years (...and counting)
On Friday I had a big shipment arrive at my house, a pallet jack had to be used to get it from the truck to my front door. Shrouded in an obscene amount of...
Biocrust, new work and when is an idea a good one?
Hello everyone. I know I'd said I'd be too busy to write a newsletter this week, but guess who has COVID? (symptoms are mild and I'm almost done isolating)...
Matty on break!
Hi guys - I'm traveling for work, then on leave, then traveling for work again, so it'll be a while. Have a great three weeks :)
Weeding changes the world
On the weekend I went to the You Yangs with my parents to weed Koala habitat. We were looking for a plant called Bone Seed (what a great name!) that...
The Lottery
Sometime in the last year or two I've noticed a change in myself: when I walk past a sign advertising the lotto I just can't help myself, I think 'fuck that...
Sweet Potato Dip
Yumi's Sweet Potato and Cashew Dip has a special place in my heart. The summer between Year 11 and Year 12 I was really, really sick. In, like, September or...