MICRO-BIO

• Matthew Perkins’ video and photographic works have been included in exhibitions such as Testing Ground, Melbourne (2009), Figuratively Speaking: The Figure in Contemporary Video Art, Brisbane (2007), Stranger Geography, Italy (2007) and Skin Alive,..

  Matthew Perkins’ video and photographic works have been included in exhibitions such as Testing Ground, Melbourne (2009), Figuratively Speaking: The Figure in Contemporary Video Art, Brisbane (2007), Stranger Geography, Italy (2007) and Skin Alive, Canberra & Melbourne (2007). His performative works explore issues of gender and subjective volatility. He has also curated a number of exhibitions that focus on digital media and the body such as Vernacular Terrain, China, Japan, Australia (2007-8), Anxious Bodies, Melbourne, Hobart (2006-7), and Unsharp/Unconscious, Brisbane, Launceston (2006). He has also contributed to a number of conferences and books including ‘Post: After the Fact’, published in Testing Ground (Ellikon: Melbourne, 2009) and ‘Historical continuums: video art at the George Paton Gallery’ in Helen Vivien (ed), When You Think About Art: The Ewing & George Paton Galleries 1971-2006 (Melbourne: Macmillan, 2008). With Professor Anne Marsh he founded the Australian Video Art Archive in 2006 – a project dedicated to the archiving and distribution of Australian video and performance art. Less

EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

Links