Matt Hinkley

Matt Hinkley in ‘Always Thinking Like A Scrim’ at SHIMMER, Rotterdam

A series of new drawings by Matt Hinkley are currently on show in the group exhibition Always Thinking Like A Scrim at SHIMMER in Rotterdam, NL.

Taking it’s title from a text written by artists Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby in 2020, Always Thinking Like A Scrim explores the life cycle of textiles, considering them as a means to speak a language that crosses cultures, but also goes underneath them. Providing opportunities to talk about things that you can not say in any other medium, textiles are envisioned here as barometers of our lives.

Working on the minute scale, Hinkley’s works are made slowly and need to be met with equal attention. The drawings’ movement ripples like lace, or turns like a thermohygrograph, changing with each work. This particular series has been made with the Rotterdam port’s view in mind, given it’s visual position of primacy being seen from the exhibition space’s windows.

Always Thinking Like A Scrim
SHIMMER, Rotterdam, NL
3 March – 26 May 2024

Matt Hinkley wins National Small Sculpture Award

Matt Hinkley was recently announced as a winner of the McClelland National Small Sculpture Award for his work Untitled, 2014. The prize aims to support sculptors during the initial stages of the impact of COVID-19 on the Australian arts and culture sector. Sutton artists Eugene Carchesio and John Meade are also among the selection of finalists.

Matt Hinkley at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany

Matt Hinkley is included in the group show Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. Curated by Ruth Noack, the exhibition invites 40 artists from different cultural contexts to negotiate contemporary politics of sleep and dreaming.

Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
19 October, 2019 – 12 January, 2020