Mathew is a visual artist and qualified theatre set and costume designer. In his theatre work he has designed for opera, dance, drama and film. Over the last thirteen years he has been living in various European cities including London, Tallinn and now Heraklion. Mathew's painting themes tend to look at serious local and global issues but done in a humorous way. Mathew's work has appeared three times on the cover of 'Athens Voice' magazine and in 2012 he was featured in the local documentary, 'Cretativity' by director Manolis Kritsotakis. Currently Mathew is the visionary behind, 'The Lakkos Project'. The project involves the community working with the Municipality to bring back value and art to Heraklion's most neglected area. He also runs a small artists residency in Heraklion.
Education
1997 - 2000. The Centre for Performing Arts Adeliade. Diploma of Arts. Set and costume design.
1995 -1997. The Central School of Arts Adelaide. Classical painting and drawing certificates.
Solo Exhibitions.
ResideneSEA. Heraklion, Greece 2016
Grecotel Palace Athena, Athens 2015
Apokorosi Arts Festival, Chania, Greece. 2013
Chania Mosque, Chania, Greece 2012
St. Georges Gate, Heraklion, Greece 2012
Avant Grade, Crete, Greece 2011
Teo Teatre, Tallinn 2011
Masu Gallery, Tallinn 2010
Tam Gallery, Tallinn 2009
Plate Tower Gallery, Tallinn 2008
Other
Works on paper. Heraklion, Greece 2018
Solid Art. Refugee fundraising show. Heraklion. Greece 2018
Zeus and the Muses. Chania. Greece 2016
Dienstag Abend 85. Austria. Vienna. 2016
Monitorfest Heraklion. Greece. 2016
Gallery Thing. Ireland, Bailibrough. Group exhibition 2016.
Dienstag Abend 83. Group intervention. Heraklion 2016
Kluckyland. Group exhibition. Dienstag Abend 85. Vienna 2016
Monitorfest. Group exhibition. Heraklion 2016
Athens Voice, Cover of the magazine January and February 2015. March 2016.
'Cretativity' Feature length documentary. Mathew was featured alongside 6 other artists living in Greece.
Tam Galerii, Tallinn, ‘Children of Tibet’ 2010. Group exhibition.
Greek Consulate of Estonia, commissioned a painting to donate to the Tartu University’s permanent collection’ ‘Everyday Life in Ancient Greece’. 2009
Burns Super Charity, Two paintings donated to the Burns Super Charity auction at the House of the Brotherhood of Black Heads 2009
Eesti Paevaleht, Painting entitled, ‘Mutton Dressed as lamb’ used in an article in the Tallinn newspaper 2009
Burns Super Charity, Two paintings donated to the Burns Super charity auction at the Swiss Hotel. 2010
Mathew is a qualified Theatre Set and costume Designer and has designed the sets and costumes for the following productions.
Alexis Steeves & Rain Saukas’ “How quickly these accidents”. Design consultant. 2011
Cid Pearlman/ Performance Projects. Tallinn. Costume designer 2010
Laughter on the 23rd Floor. New Theatre, Sydney. Neil Simons play. Set designer. 2008
Julian Gets Married. Short Film. Director, designer. 2006
Train. Short film. Set designer. 2005
Dance in the Forbidden City. Costume designer. 2004
Cosi Fan Tutti. Travelling opera. Co- Opera. Set designer. 2004
Adelaide Parklands Strategy. Conference. Concept designer. 2002
King Lear. Lightning Strikes Production Company. Se and costume designer. 2002
Dance for the Y2K. Costume designer. 2000
Moon Spirit Feasting. Opera. Adelaide Festival of Arts. Assistant designer.
Many solo and group design jobs in film, theatre and dance. 1998 – 2001
Flamma Flamma. Adelaide Festival opening night ceremony. 1998. Design
