Matthew Dunne - CV
MatthewDunne
(b.1989, Australia)
dunne.matt@gmail.com| www.mattdunnephoto.com| 0403063828
Matt Dunne (b, 1989, Melbourne) is an artist and writer living and working in Melbourne, Australia. His work focuses on the complex and unbalanced relationship between people, nature and place - focusing attentively on how the settlement of Australia has led to biodiversity loss and destruction. His practice uses community research, enabled discovery and precise interrogation of history: he's a whiz at digging for gold in special interest Facebook groups.
He is the founder of Tall Poppy Press, Tending to the Garden and a co-founder of This on That and MEL Photobook fair.
Exhibitions - Solo
2023 (upcoming) The Killing Sink, Serchia Gallery, Bristol, UK
2023 The Killing Sink, Schoolhouse Gallery, Hobart
2022 The Killing Sink, Oigall Projects, Melbourne
2022 The Killing Sink, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Pop Up, Paddington Library, Sydney
2020 More Like a Spoon Than a Fork, Off the Kerb, Melbourne
2019 Paterson’s Curse, The Cornershop, Sydney
2018 Sullivan’s Reach, Howitt St Pop-Up Gallery, Canberra
Exhibitions - Group
2023 The Chills, Oigall Gallery, Melbourne
2023 Speculative Horizons, Kuwait City
2022 Airscape, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Fragile Earth: Extinction, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale
2022 The Killing Sink, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2020 Sub Solar, Rewind Gallery, Sydney
2019 Things I Wanted to Say but Never Did, Contact Sheet, Sydney
2017 Empire Art Prize, Tuggeranong Community Arts Centre, Canberra
Grants
2022 Small Arts Grant, City of Yarra, The Killing Sink
2021 City of Melbourne Development Grant, Orb Spiders in Drought Country
Talks
2023 Presentation to photography students, University of Technology Sydney
2022 Photobook makers panel, Centre for Contemporary Photography
2022 Slow Shutter Lunchtime talk, Western Sydney University
Teaching
2023 A5 Dummy Making, Perth Centre of Photography
2023, Publishing Practice
Publications
2022, The Killing Sink, VOID
2020, Issue no. 3, Arena Quarterly
2020, The Corner Shop 2019, Corner Shop
2019 JRNL, Fotofilmic
2018 Paterson’sCurse, self-published
2018 Letters, self published
2018 six-sevenmagazine, featured work: The Difference Between Us
2017 Rooftop,self published
2017 six-sevenmagazine, featured work: Dead British Birds