Matthew Hindley

Matthew Hindley (b. 1974) is one of South Africa’s most recognised contemporary painters. Hindley’s paintings are a progression from intricate figuration to abstraction. He has also explored the use of technology within his art, such as Speak Naturally and Continuously, which was permanently re-installed on the façade of the Iziko South African National Gallery in 2019. This work turns conversations overheard in the museum’s atrium and turned them into a live stream of text.

 

Matthew Hindley (b. 1974) is a South African painter from Cape Town. He graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town in 2002, where he was awarded the Michaelis Prize. As one of the country's most recognized younger painters, Hindley’s intense, poetic and delving artworks have featured in various critical and seminal South African exhibitions. As one of the countries' most recognised younger painters, Hindley’s intense, poetic and delving artworks have featured in various critical and seminal South African exhibitions. His most recent solo painting presentation, The Brush Itself Incite, was held at the SILO hotel Vault Gallery in Cape Town, 2019.   In addition, he has presented at the world-renowned Eli and Edythe Broad Museum, Michigan (2012) and the Kochi Muziris Biennale, India (2012). In 2014 he worked on a series of paintings inspired by the mythological African tales of South African writer Don Mattera, for a book published by Rhodeworks, in Berlin, Germany.  In 2015 his artwork was part of the imago mundi, Benetton Collection at the Venice Biennale, and his major public sculpture Speak Naturally and Continuously was installed above the entrance of the South African National Gallery in Cape Town, South Africa. This artwork was rebuilt in late 2018/early 2019 and reopened to the general public interaction May 2019.  In 2015, David Krut Projects (DKP) Cape Town exhibited a series of watercolour paintings by Matthew  Hindley, which were produced to illustrate The Five Magic Pebbles & other stories by Don Mattera. This exhibition travelled to DKP Johannesburg in February 2016.  At the same time, Hindley collaborated with David Krut Workshop (DKW), creating a series of drypoints and watercolour monotypes. He returned in June 2016 to make a series of copper plate drypoints. Later that year, Hindley’s drypoints featured on a DKP exhibition of small works, Inch x Inch, and prints of his were featured on the DKP stall at the Joburg Art Fair 2016.  In 2018, his second solo exhibition at DKP Johannesburg opened under the name Survey of Risk, including the print series Ruin Lust.  Hindley has also been part of various group exhibitions at DKP. 

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Print of the Month | December 2018 – Matthew Hindley ‘Fireball’
Dec. 11, 2018

[caption id="attachment_39394" align="alignnone" width="800"] Matthew Hindley, Fireball, 2016, Watercolour monotype on [/caption] This month features Matthew Hindley's watercolour monotype Fireball, 2016...

Tags: Artist, Arts on Main, Collaborative printmaking, David Krut, David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects, David Krut Workshop, DKW, Matthew Hindley, Monotype
Survey of Risk Opening Night
Feb. 27, 2018

Survey of Risk opened on Thursday evening - 22 February 2018 - at our Parkwood Gallery in Johannesburg. It was...

Tags: drawing, Drypoint, Exhibition, exhibition opening, painting, Printmaking
A Survey of Risk with Matthew Hindley | Listening Time 21 Minutes
Feb. 13, 2018

In this episode, Matthew Hindley spoke to Elize De Beer about his experience of printmaking ahead of his solo exhibition...

Tags: Collaborative printmaking, Drypoint, etching, monotypes, painter, podcast, Printmaking
What went down at the FNB Joburg Art Fair? 2016-09
Sep. 12, 2016

12.09.16 Blogger: Jessie Cohen From the moment the FNB Joburg Art Fair (JAF) kicked off, we had a fabulous range of responses...

Tags: David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects, David Krut Projects Johannesburg, FNB Joburg Art Fair 2016
Who are DKP featuring at the FNB Joburg Art Fair? 2016-09
Sep. 6, 2016

09.2016 Blogger: Jessie Cohen This year, David Krut Projects is proud to showcase South African and Ethiopian artists across 4 separate booths at the...

Tags: David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects, David Krut Projects Johannesburg, DESTA, FNB Joburg Art Fair 2016
Master printer feature: Jillian Ross 2016-10
Aug. 16, 2016

28.10.16 Blogger: Jessie Cohen Master printer feature: Jillian Ross [caption id="attachment_42960" align="aligncenter" width="640"] DKW master printer Jillian Ross[/caption] For profiling Ross,...

Tags: David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects Arts on Main, Jillian Ross
Cracking the puzzle: Matthew Hindley returns to DKW to make an ambitious etching series
Jun. 20, 2016

Blogger: Jessie Cohen 20.06.16 Recently, Cape Town-based contemporary artist Matthew Hindley returned to David Krut Workshop (DKW) to develop an ambitious etching...

Tags: David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects Arts on Main
Explosive Beauty & Beautiful Explosions: Matthew Hindley makes watercolour monotypes at David Krut Workshop, AOM
Feb. 19, 2016

Blogger: Jessie Cohen When artist Matthew Hindley came to our printing workshop to make a series of watercolour monotypes, he had...

Tags: David Krut Print Workshop, David Krut Projects Arts on Main, David Krut Projects Johannesburg

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