For his current exhibition, Matt Hinkley is presenting a new series of eleven drawings. Part of a recent larger and ongoing body of work, each drawing is made of horizontal lines, organically broken in different sections and increments, or forcibly interrupted by freehand scribbles to form a kind of degraded topography. The drawings sit within Hinkley’s wider practice, in which works range in scale and material, yet have a consistent thread throughout: a methodical commitment to the intricacies of repetition within minimalist mark making.
1-1-1-2-1-2-1-2-2-2-2-3-3-3-2-2-2-1-1-1-1-1, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2022; This new source of strength could not be relied upon at first, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2019; The truth is, we still haven’t received any news of its existence, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, 2018; These Earthly Days Go Rolling By, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2017; Matt Hinkley, There are more days to come when we will be on our own, Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, 2016; Matt Hinkley, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2014; Matt Hinkley, Neon Parc, Melbourne, 2010.
XXX: Celebrating 30 Years of Sutton Gallery, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2022; Connecting the World through Sculpture: From the Ground Up, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2021; The world precedes the eye, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, 2016; Bilder Bilder, Neon Parc, Melbourne, 2016; Technologism, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2015; Lurid Beauty, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2015; The Kaleidoscopic Turn, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2015; The Lulennial: A Slight Gestuary, Lulu, Mexico City, 2015; 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, Sydney, 2014; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013; Reinventing The Wheel: The Readymade Century, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2013; New Psychedelia, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2011; Freehand, Recent Australian Drawing Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2010.
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