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BIO:
Born in
Burnie, Tasmania. Relocated to Hobart in 1991 to study visual art at University
of Tasmania's Centre for the Arts,
emerging in 1995 with Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Graduate Diploma in
Art Craft & Design. Working primarily in time-based media,
Matt creates installations, single channel video and audio work, sometimes in
combination.
Currently, Matt is interested in the aesthetics of memory, the sublime, the
supernatural and the spiritual.
From 1996-2002 he produced a series of works under the banner of “The
Absence Project” dealing with notions of absence,
loss and gaps in the continuum of everyday life. This project culminated in
an installation at CAST gallery in Hobart called On the Run.
In 1999
Matt received an Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
and moved to Vancouver, Canada to study
for his Master of Fine Arts degree.
In 2003
he undertook a research trip to Germany funded by the Australia Council (for
a documentary
on “Krautrock” and research on German Expressionist cinema) and
a two week stint at the Total Recall festival at the
Cultural Exchange Station in Tábor, Czech Republic, partly funded by
Arts Tasmania.
Matt has
exhibited in Sydney(installation at MCA in 1999/2000 and sound work in Sydney
Opera house d>Art04 2004),
Melbourne (Fringe Festival screening 1999 and “Hearing Place” audiotheque
2003), throughout Tasmania (exhibitions and screenings),
Vancouver (screenings and exhibitions1999-2001), Tábor and New Zealand.
Matt has produced work for and in collaboration with
performance-based productions including work with Salamanca Theatre Co/is Theatre,
IHOS Opera and produced the work Broken Down with
performance-poet Beth Lisick and electro-acoustic composer Eli Crews from the
U.S.A. Has also performed with Sean Bacon
as part of Caffeine Broadcast and currently with the group D GROUP.
In 2004 he returned to Europe where he appeared for a second time at CESTA,
first contributing a new video installation as well as curating
a horror film festival during their Peripheral Visions (10 year anniversary)
festival and secondly as an artist-in-residence.
2005 saw him produce a collaborative work called Nocturnal with Sally Rees and
John Vella at Kelly’s Garden, Salamanca Arts Centre, contribute work to
an electronic media group exhibition at CAST and contribute a sound and light
work at Gail Priest’s ‘e(scapes – Summer Edition’ one-nighter
at Medium Rare Gallery, Redfern.
In January 2006 he undertook a residency at Raw Space in Brisbane. Returning
to Hobart he begun his PhD degree at the University of Tasmania.
In the July-September period, he exhibited in Hobart and Devonport, Tasmania,
returned a 3rd time to CESTA, (this time as part of D GROUP),
begun work on a new audio documentary about UK electronic musician Mick Harris
and contributed a short audio work to the “Bend It Like Beckett”
project in Ireland. As a musician operates under the monikers mumble(speak)
and Broken Tiny.
Matt lives and works in Hobart, Australia with his partner Sally and two rabbits.
.Website:
http://matt.vkool.com
Email: matt_warren1@excite.com