MATTHEW DE MOISER

MATTHEW DE MOISER is a Melbourne based artist recognised for his use of everyday objects, mediums and materials as the basis for new works that speak about the Australian suburban condition. His work can be viewed as a reconciliation of sorts between Howard Arkley's fetishisation of the suburbs and Robin Boyd's contempt for them.

Born in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs in the 1970’s, his grandparents originally migrated to Geelong in 1952 as Estonian refugees and built their first home with packing crates from the Ford factory where they worked. The south eastern suburban fringe of Melbourne where his parents later settled would become synonymous with stereotypical Australian suburbia after the the TV soap Neighbours was filmed there.

2002-03
Dipolma Arts (Visual Arts), RMIT University

1992-95
Bachelor of Science, Monash University

2012
'Black & White & Colour', Flinders Street Gallery, NSW

2011
'From the Imagined World', ANITA TRAVERSO GALLERY, VIC
'Paradise City', Flinders Street Gallery, NSW
'Composite', Flinders Street Gallery, NSW

2010
'Home Sweet Home', Box Hill Art Centre, VIC

2009
'Cut.Paste', ANCA Gallery, ACT
'Making Our Times', University of Newcastle Gallery, NSW
'Damaged Goods', Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT - solo show
'The Laminate Paintings', Flinders Street Gallery, NSW

2008
'eBay on the Freeway', Melbourne Design Festival, VIC

2007
'Multiple Personality' MOP Projects, NSW - curatedby Dr Daniel Mudie Cunningham
'Melbourne Fringe', Melbourne Museum, VIC

2011
Finalist - aRtECYLE, Incinerator Arts Complex, VIC

2009
Winner - Box Hill Biennial Art Price, VIC

2008
Finalist - New Social Commentaries, Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC
Finalist - Wilson HTM National Art Prize, Sophie Gannon Gallery, VIC
Grantpirrie (Sydney) + Jan Manton At (Brisbane)
Highly Commended - Melbourne Fringe, Melbourne Museum, VIC
Finalist - Montalto Sculpture Prize, Mornington Peninsula, VIC
Finalist - Churchie Emerging Art Award, QLD

2007
Winner - Agendo Prize, Gardner Gallery, VIC
Civic Choice Award - Melbourne Price for Urban Sculpture, Federation Square, VIC
Finalist - Off the Wall, Art Melbourne & Art Sydney

Local and internaitonal public and private collections, including the M Colleciton, Art Bank and the City of Whitehorse.

Veneer: new works in laminate (Now showing until 23 March 2013)