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23–26 MAY 2024

EXHIBITION HOURS
12–6PM TH–SA, 12–4PM SU

OPENING DRINKS
4–9PM TH MAY 23

 

There’s a stillness in printmaking that I don’t find in most places. ‘The path is the goal’ is a celebration of that stillness.

For my first solo exhibition, I wanted to curate a show that’s as much a celebration the peace I find within the process of printmaking, as the prints that come out of the process. Whilst this isn’t specifically a ‘mental health’ show, my experience with my own mental health is irrevocably tied to the prints on display. The tactile nature of printmaking has given me space from a brain that never stops, thoughts that have long overstayed their welcome, and worn-out definitions of who I am as a human being.

I find that the slow and repetitive process of printmaking has given me powerful lessons (albeit sometimes challenging, or frustrating lessons) about spending more time in the ups and downs of life, leaning into the unexpected, and celebrating the journey of living, seeing where I have come from and where I’m going, rather than focusing on an ideal life.

Matt Spierings ‘Process iii’ (triptych) — $295
Matt Spierings ‘Process iv’ (diptych) — $225
Matt Spierings ‘Idle Hands iii’ — $175
Matt Spierings ‘Snake Charmer’ — $75
Matt Spierings ‘Self Portrait’ — $
Matt Spierings ‘Pouring’ — $250
Matt Spierings ‘Absurdist ii’ — $100
Matt Spierings ‘Absurdist i’ — $100
Matt Spierings ‘telltale’ – $150
Matt Spierings ‘Pharoah’s Dragons i’ — $350
Matt Spierings ‘Pharoah’s Dragons ii’ — $125
Matt Spierings ‘Self Portrait I’ — NFS
Matt Spierings ‘Do You See Yourself in Me?’ — NFS
Matt Spierings ‘Waiting on Myself’ – $150
Matt Spierings ‘Abstraction i’ — $100
Matt Spierings ‘Abstraction II” — $100
Matt Spierings ‘William St’ – $200
Matt Spierings ‘Learning to Outrun’ — $175
Matt Spierings ‘Mossy Pond’ — $175
Matt Spierings ‘Process iii’ (triptych) — $295

ABOUT MATT SPIERINGS

Matt Spierings is an emerging artist, primarily focused on printmaking, who is living and creating on the lands of the Gadigal & Wangal people (Sydney, Australia). He is a social worker, amateur weightlifter, and enthusiastic cook. He lives with a neurodiverse brain, chronic illness, and like most folks: experiences challenges with his mental health. Matt uses his creative pursuits to help manage the ups and downs of being a human living through late-stage capitalism.

Find out more @grannyprints