Matt CARNEY CV
1966: Born Melbourne
1988: Completed B.F.A at The TasmanianSchool of Art
1989: Completed two public commissions- “Suffer Little Children Come Unto Thee” for the CollegiateGirlsSchool and “The Hand of Change” for the East Derwent Community Arts Council.
1990: Apprentice to Steven Walker gaining a good education in bronze casting
Group exhibition at the TasmanianSculptureGarden
1991-5: Travelled to Italy , Paris , then settled in London. Found work in a theatre night club called Heaven. Here I was employed in a wide range of art including large murals, set design , lighting effects , stage props and furniture. I view this period as my apprenticeship in applied art practice.
1995-2001:
Solo Exhibitions,
1999Handmark Gallery including “Pegasus” 1.2m by 1.2 Mild steel; “Flight of Birds” 1.0m by 1.3m mild steel, ”The Last Bus” 0.7m high, mild steel and copper; ”Wooden Torso” 0.5m high huon pine; ”gotchya” 1.1m high mild steel and copper; Figurative studies “YOU” and “The Flutist” both 1.2m high Zinc plated mild steel.
2000: Handmark Gallery including the works; “Transmission” 2.4m high zinc plated mild steel; “Flight of Birds” zinc plated mild steel; “Future Relic” 1.5m high caved wood encased in mild steel; “Emergence” caved wood and mild steel; “The Lovers” mild steel and copper 0.6m high; “The Dancer” 1.8m high chrome plated mild steel.
2000: Red Chapel Gallery 1998 in Hobart. Works including; “Lioness” 1.6m long mild steel; “The Skaters on Thin Ice” 0.4m high mild steel; “The Face of Sadness” mild steel; “Flight of Birds” zinc plated mild steel; “Wood Torso” 0.5m high houn pine; “The Earth Mother” full size figure, mild steel.
2003 SOHO Galleries Sydney, ‘So Little Time’
Group Exhibitions:
Code Red Gallery 1997 Subiaco in Perth: “The Rescue” 0.6m high mild steel; “Justice” 1.0m high mild steel; “Flight of Birds” zinc plated mild steel; “Dragon” 1.2m long bronze plated mild steel and copper; “The Essential Bull” mild steel rod , zinc plated.
Barry Stern Gallery,
1998 ,1999 Paddington Sydney; ”The Flight of Birds” zinc
plated mild steel
Gannon House Gallery 1996,1997,1998,1999, 2000 The Rocks Sydney; : The “Ghost of a Stockman”, copper 0.4m high; “Eagle” 1.2m from wing tip to wing tip, bronze plated mild steel; “Reclining Figure” 0.4m long , mild steel ; ”The Flutist” 1.1m high mild steel; “Bull” Marquette , painted mild steel;
Pitt Street Gallery, The Rocks Sydney: “Phoenix” chrome plated mild steel , mother of pearl, amber, brass and stainless steel; “Future Relic” wood and steel; “Flight of Birds” zinc plated mild steel.
The Design Warehouse in Sydney : “Pegasus” mild steel 1.2 by 1.2 m ; “Transmission” 2.4m high zinc plated mild steel; “ The Gate Keeper” 0.4m high mild steel; “Vapour Trail” 1.4m high zinc platted mild steel; “Flight of Birds” zinc plated mild steel; “Freedom” 1.3m high mild steel.
SOHO Gallery Sydney 2001: “Flight of Birds: zinc plated mild steel; “ Geo Matrix” .65m diameter, painted mild steel;
Delshan Gallery in Armidale High StMelbourne: “Flight of Birds” zinc plated mild steel; “Transmission” 2.4m high zinc plated mild steel; “Job Hunting” 0.7m high bronze plated mild steel.
Sculpture by the Sea 2001 Tasmania
Private Collections : America “Phoenix” ; “Gotchya” New York,
Europe: “Transmission”
The UK: “Transmission”
Japan: “Bull” Tasmanian beef Co
Australia: Too numerous to mention
MATT CARNEY
(1966 – 2011)
Matt Carney was a young sculptor with a broad scope of talent. His work had become greatly sought after here in Australia. Matt specialised in mild steel works as well as lost wax bronze.
In his early training Matt completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Tasmania majoring in both sculpture and painting. He then apprenticed himself to the well known Australian sculptor Stephen Walker as an assistant in bronze casting. During this time Matt also completed several major public works and maintained his own studio.
The nineties found Matt in London where the theatricality of his sculpture background was recognised by Sir Richard Branson and he was hired as a creative consultant to design and fit out the interiors of Branson's Voyager Club empire. Matt returned to Tasmania in 1996 and established a working studio.
He had been selling nationally at galleries such as, Handmark Gallery and Red Chapel Gallery in Hobart. Code Red Gallery in Perth, Soho Galleries in Sydney and Delshan Gallery and Artefact in Melbourne.
Due to his commercial success this had been the first opportunity for Matthew to create a coherent body of work as a show and as he has built his own foundry this year, has incorporated lost wax bronzes into his repertoire.
Collections included are Arts Tasmania, Leonard Bernstein Collection NYC, Richard Branson Collection, London and private collections in America, Japan, England and Singapore.