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Welcome to a world which integrates technical blending, knowledge exploration, and self-actualization through the expression of the seven modes of laughter. Here, you’ll find many proven best practices – from cogent interactions to valuable emotional elements – that you can model into your everyday life.

Learning shouldn’t be a jarring experience. That’s why these presentations have been specially designed to seamlessly instill their benefits, alternating between passive and active engagement. Likewise, whether it’s conveyed in expressionistic narratives, salon-upon-salon layering, studio environments with their curious assemblages, or just through editing and collage techniques, you’ll discover that the expanding conglomerate is well at hand.

However, if you prefer an uncluttered mind, standalone features are available as well – like the digital reflections and gently oblique visions that enable self-soothing – your potential unravelling in horizons.

Oh, lastly, new to the platform, bringing collaborative music with distinct lo-fi video clips into the mix: The Cabbage Saints. Nice deliverables, right? So, enjoy your time here. Let the words, pictures, and wavelengths wash over you and be refreshed.

Matthew Tumbers
Lives and works in Australia

Education

Post Graduate Certificate in Film Studies (Screenwriting, High Distinction), University of Sydney, 2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Time Based Art Major (Distinction), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, 1999

Solo Exhibitions

Salon Upon Salon, 25B Gallery, Sydney, 2025
Toward Falcon Heights, Ankles, Sydney, 2019
Remembering Rayon, The Gunnery, Artspace, Sydney, 2011
Spirit Hand Wandering, Chalk Horse, curator Clementine Blackman, Sydney, 2011
Art Trap, Sherman Artbox, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 2007
Painting is Reverse Sweeping (a drawing show), James Dorahy Project Space, 2007
Gumnut Xanadu II, Block Gallery, Sydney, 2003
Gumnut Xanadu III, Kudos Gallery, Sydney, 2003
Gumnut Xanadu: Australian Psychedelic Maps ’n Landscape, TAP Gallery, Sydney, 2002

Collaborative Works / Exhibitions

Art Habits Audio Tour, with Michael Lindeman, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2021
Unit, with Michael Lindeman, The Delaware Contemporary, Delaware, USA, 2018
Tug of War (rope) / Tug of Love (bon-bon), with Mitch Cairns, KNULP, Sydney, 2017
Existence, with TV Moore, ACCA, Melbourne, 2015
Unit, with Michael Lindeman, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, 2014
Blue Period, with Mitch Cairns, Society, curator Susan Gibb, Sydney, 2012
Existence, with TV Moore, Tell Me Tell Me, National Art School, Sydney, 2011

Group Exhibitions

25Bye, 25B Gallery, Sydney, 2025
Landscape Show, Art Bau Gallery, Sydney, 2022
Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media Art, Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, 2016
Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media Art, The Block, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 2015
Experimenta Recharge: 6th International Biennial of Media Art, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2014
Prospector Pop Up, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney, 2013
Cool World, Alaska Projects, Sydney, 2012
Wunder Pond, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, 2012
Young Blood Designers Market, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2012
Eastern Seaboard, Artspace, Sydney, 2011
Salon, Eastern Block, Sydney, 2011
Speaks Volumes: The Ron & George Adams Collection, MOP Projects, Sydney, 2011
The Cosmic Battle for Your Heart, Sydney, 2009
Down Town: mini-mART, Firstdraft Gallery, Art & About, Curtin Place, Sydney, 2008
Look Out Wembley Arena, MOP Projects, Sydney, 2008
The Science Fair, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, 2008
First Anniversary Paper, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney, 2007
Lit Up Like a Christmas Tree, James Dorahy Project Space, Sydney, 2007
Publicity, curator Reuben Keehan, Artspace, Sydney, 2007
Publicity, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, 2007
Smash Hits, Parramatta Artists’ Studios, Sydney, 2007
Grudge Match, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, curator Tania Doropoulos, Melbourne, 2006
Don’t Look Now, Mori Gallery, curator Scott Donovan, Sydney, 2005
Drawing Room: Back In Five Project, Blank Space, curator Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Sydney, 2005
Project Next Wave, Spacement: Black Gallery, Melbourne, 2004
Avoiding the Eye Area, MOP Projects, curator Koji Ryui, Sydney, 2003
Back In Five Project, Galleries Victoria, curator Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Sydney, 2003
Slacking Off, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney, 2002
Raw Slices, Arthouse Gallery, Sydney, 1996
Tramshed Community Arts Centre, Sydney, 1992

Video & Film Screenings

Televisions, Carriage Works, Sydney, 2013
Shaun Gladwell presents MCA Artbar, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2012
16th Videobrasil: Laboratoria Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico, 2008
Panoramas of the Imagination: 16th Videobrasil, curator David Cranswick, São Paulo, Brazil, 2007
Art Forum, School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 2006
Iron Cove Man; Romance Waters Series, Official, Sydney, 2006
MHUL Workshop, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2006
The Late Sessions, About Studio, Bangkok, Thailand, 2006
The Late Sessions, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2006
The Late Sessions, Hoyts Cinema, Sydney, 2006
This Is Not Art, Newcastle Fringe Festival, Newcastle, 2006
Video Easy, Hart Centre for Arts, Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China, 2006
Next Wave Festival, Spacement / Black Gallery, Melbourne, 2004
Black Box: 30 Years of ACP Gallery, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2004
Eyes For Other Skies, Gallery 5, curator Kirsten Bradley, Seoul, South Korea, 2004
Pablo Velasquez Shoeboard Remix, Loop, Melbourne, 2004
Pablo Velasquez Shoeboarding, Valhalla Cinema, Sydney, 2004
Videola: 30 Years of ACP Gallery, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2004
Chewing The Phat: Angelica Mesiti, Phat Space, Sydney, 2003
Darwin Fringe Festival, Darwin, 2002
Super Eight Soirée, Lilyfield, Sydney, 2000
Transfix Multi-media Festival, Dendy Cinema, Martin Place, Sydney, 1999
Wild Spaces Environmental Film Festival, Third Eye Cinema, Sydney, 1999
Vulture el Horridor, Harbourside Brasserie, Sydney, 1999
Third Year Time Based Art, COFA, UNSW, Sydney, 1998
Cy-Fi, Planet Hollywood Cinema, Sydney, 1997
Never Mind the Bolex, Mandolin Cinema, Sydney, 1997

Awards, Prizes & Residencies

KAAF Art Prize finalist, 2025
Mosman Art Prize finalist, 2023
Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 2023
Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 2020
Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, 2019
Waverley Art Prize, Acrylic Painting Prize (Winner), 2019
Mosman Art Prize finalist, 2018
70 Years Mosman Art Prize finalist, 2017
Mosman Art Prize finalist, 2015
63rd Blake Prize finalist, 2014
Mosman Art Prize finalist, 2014
Artspace Studio Residency, The Gunnery, 2011
Bundanon Artist Residency, Sherman Studio, Bundanon, 2010
NSW Artist’s Marketing Grant, National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA), 2009
Artspace Studio Residency, The Gunnery, 2007
CoFA UNSW Spring Fair, limited edition of drawings, College of Fine Arts, 2006
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship finalist (Highly Commended), 2005
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship finalist, 2004
Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship finalist, 2003

Performances

Sapphires of Laughter, Koji Ryui presents MCA Artbar, MCA, 2015
Morning of The Earth, Shaun Gladwell, Philharmonic Gergiev Festival, Rotterdam, 2013
Nighttime #13, co-ordinator Lara Thoms, Performance Space, Sydney, 2011
Back in Five Project, Gotaro Uematsu, Sydney Esquisse, Sydney, 2005
The Neddy Project, TV Moore, Artspace, Sydney, 2004
Desk Job: Bong Relay #1, TV Moore, Mori Gallery, Sydney, 2002
Art Is Transfixed by Time, 2nd Year Performance, COFA, UNSW, 1997

Related Experience

Gallery Installation & Artist Assistant, Artspace, Sydney, 2011
Artist Talk, Bundanon Trust Education-Schools Program, 2010
Videographer, video editor, colour grading, content, TV Moore, Anne Landa Award, AGNSW, 2009
Installation and Artist Assistant, Flinders Street Gallery, Sydney, 2008
Original screenplay treatment selected by screenwriter Ian David for feature film development, 2008
Art Forum, Australian National University, Canberra, 2007
Nexus Cabaret, Lions Art Centre, Adelaide, 2007
Videographer, Temple of Intoxication, TV Moore, Roslyn Oxley, Sydney, 2007
Camera Assistant, Japanese Television 2006 Soccer World Cup, 2006
Co-writer and performer for proposed television pilot, TV Moore, 2002
Lighting and Grip Assistant, AFTRS short film productions, 2000
Production Assistant, Flying Gherkin animation, Sydney, 1997
Videographer for artist Debra Petrovich performance, Artspace, Sydney, 1997
Videographer, video editor, and colour grade of performance video documentation, Glen Henderson, Performance Space, 1997

Press, Reviews & Publications

Mosman Art Prize, Exhibitions, Mutual Art, 2023
Linda Morris, Cruel blow that has left a generation of artists reeling, 3 Aug 2021
Art Habits, The Pivot Issue, Art + Australia, 2021
Salon des Refuses: a backyard buffet more than a gourmet feast, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 Oct 2020
John McDonald, Salon des Refuses review, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 June 2019
Mosman Art Prize Finalists, Daily Telegraph, Kate Crawford, 20 July 2015
Blue Period, Erik Jensen, Review, Runway, Issue 15, 2012
Exploring New Worlds: Audience Is Key To Exhibition, Inner West Courier, Lauren Murada, February 2012
Wunder Pond Review, concreteplayground.com.au, February 2012
24 Hours The Arts Diary, Exhibition, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 October 2011
The Weather Man, Chalk Horse e-Catalogue, Timothy Moore, 18 October 2011
Critic’s Choice, Sydney Morning Herald Entertainment Section, Malvika Santhebennur, 14 October 2011
Artscape: The Art Life – Lust For Life, ABC 2 Television, 5 April 2009
Artscape: The Art Life – Lust For Life, ABC 1 Television, 31 March 2009
Column 1, ISSN 1835-3487, Artspace Visual Art Centre Ltd, March 2008
What’s On, Art Insight, Issue #24, December 2007
Publicity, The Adelaide Review, Nov 23 – Dec 6 2007, Stephanie Radock
Catalogue Id 41706209, Parkside, S. Australia: Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 26 Oct – 9 Dec 2007
First Anniversary Paper Review, The Program, 24 June 2007, Felix Ratcliff
The CoFA Limited Edition Project (featured artist), CoFA Art Design Media, Issue 17
The Art of Drawing (featured drawing), CoFA Art Design Media, Issue 17, Spring 2006, Carolina Totterman
The Late Sessions: Video Art at the Megaplex, CoFA Art Design Media, Issue 16, Autumn/Winter 2006, Carole Boone
The Late Sessions Review, Artlink, Vol. 26 No. 2, Clare Lewis
Melburnin’, Trouble Magazine, April 2006, Simon Gregg
2005 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship finalists, Arts Bulletin, NSW Ministry for the Arts, No. 93, Aug 2005, Deborah Ely
News: 2005 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, State of the Arts, 1 Sept 2005
Awards: Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney Morning Herald, Sept 1 2005, Sunanda Creagh
On The Rise, Sun Herald, Sept 4 2005, William Petley
Prize Fight, Sydney Morning Herald Metro, Sep 9-15 2005, Dominique Angeloro
Open Gallery: Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, Sept 10-11 2005, Sunanda Creagh
2005 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Arts Bulletin, NSW Ministry for the Arts, No. 94, Sept 2005, Deborah Ely
CoFA Cleans Up, CoFA Art Design Media, Issue 15, Summer 2005, Melanie Watkins
The Woman Who Mistook Her Husband for Art, Uniken Magazine, Issue 28, Oct 2005, Alex Clarke
Review: Spacement, Beat Magazine Melbourne, May-June 2004, Simone Ubaldi
New Space: New Work, Real Time + On Screen, No. 62, Aug-Sept 2004, Lily Hibberd
Travelling Circus, Sydney Morning Herald Metro, Aug 15-21 2003, Dominique Angeloro
For Love & Money, UR Magazine, Issue 6, Volume 83, September 2003, Ziyad Springborg
Friends Avoiding The Eye Area, Runway, Issue 2, Oct 2003, Koji Ryui
New Artists: New Work, Scan 2003, Real Time + On Screen, No. 57, Oct-Nov 2003, Keith Gallasch