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STATEMENT OF WORK
My name is Matthew Clarke I live in South West Victoria(at the end of the Great Ocean Road) in Australia. I am an artist with an intellectual disability and I live with mental illness. I have been drawing ever since I can remember and I have been painting for 20 years. My work is influenced and inspired by the people around me(see portraits). I have long running themes of portraits, wallabies(kangaroos), wind farms, landscapes and cityscapes.
Matthew works with acrylic paint on linen and paper. He draws with fine liner pens on paper. He also paints acrylic paint on plywood as part of his process to make sculptures.
Matthew thrives on painting ‘super’ large works. His largest work on linen is 9.2 x 1.9 metres! His largest street mural was 12 x 4 metres!
Matthew was chosen to exhibit his linocut in the National Gallery of Victoria for the Melbourne Now Exhibition in 2023.
in 2024 become a two-time Wynne Prize finalist at the Art Gallery New South Wales , finalist in both the Darling Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and Lester Prize at the Western Australian Museum.
in 2025 become a two-time Sulman Prize finalist at the Art Gallery New South Wales
Matthew is proud of his achievements which include Finalist in the 2021 Archibald prize in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, having his work covering a Melbourne and an Adelaide Tram, having art work in the ArtBank collection, City of Melbourne Collection, Macquarie Group Collection, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Art Collection, Art Gallery of Ballarat collection Bendigo Art Gallery Collection, and the National Gallery of Victoria Collection
Matthew is often heard saying “I like to paint to make people happy”.
I am also proud to be an Australian artist painting Australian themes and my Australian heros.
Matthew was chosen to exhibit his linocut in the National Gallery of Victoria for the Melbourne Now Exhibition in 2023.
I am proud to be in the 2024 Darling Portrait Prize .It is exciting having been choosen in top 24 Finalist out of 1000 entries in The National. Portrait Gallery of Australia
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